Sell what you know; know what you sell.
Don't dropship-- you will be selling stuff you've never seen and have no control over the packaging and shipping.
The best source for finding wholesalers is the (paper) Yellow Pages for your city. Or the nearest large city if you live in a rural or isolated area.
Say you were a hairdresser. Ask the sales reps who come around about purchasing job lots or end of lines of their products. They may have returns as well. (But watch out for best before dates).
From the Yellow Pages under Beauty Products-wholesale, look for nearby wholesalers,manufacturers, liquidators, importers. Visit them and see what deals you can make on small lots.
You don't want a lot of anything. If you can buy three bottles of specialty conditioner at $3 each or 30 bottles at $1 each, go for the three.
Expect at first to pay for your items immediately. Eventually you will get 30, 60 , even 90 days to pay. But not at first.
Expect to be asked for your sales tax number. You can get this from your provincial sales tax department. They are in the Blue Pages of the phone book. It's free. And if you are charging sales tax, you get paid to remit it, which takes about 10 minutes including mailing time.
If you are NOT asked for a sales tax number, understand that you are paying retail. It is very hard to sell retail when you are buying retail.
Oh, and you do know that eBay will restrict the number and value of your listings until you have established yourself. Part of that is the Detailed Seller Ratings. Look them up on the Site Map.
Also, Paypal will hold the payments of your customers for 21days against your good performance. You will be able to use that held money to pay for PP shipping labels (some of which are discounted from PO counter prices by 5%to 18%). Ship promptly.
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