I'm getting really confused here. My understanding of these forums is that they are for wholesalers, i.e. business people. All over them, I see posts, articles and replies telling traders about due diligence and doing research. So, is it unfair to say we ought to have some idea about what we are doing? Shouldn't we have some idea of what price we are likely to be able to sell at
before we buy?
Yet this thread, with a few honourable exceptions, looks to me to be full of people saying "someone else must be to blame" because a wholesale trader advertises goods at the prices which that wholesale trader sells at, and that those wishing to purchase from them must pay a fee of some kind. Agree or disagree that the consumer is over-protected in this country and in the western world in general, but like it or not, the regulations and laws applying to business to business transactions
are different.
Surely, as resellers, dropship traders, retailers or business people in general, it is our responsibility to ensure that we can sell whatever we buy for resale at a profit? Isn't it our responsibility to check out that what we're joining will be of value to us
before we join?
We all make mistakes, particularly when starting something new. I certainly have made enough. Having made one, to bleat on about it on a forum of this nature and have so many people join in, over so many pages makes me wonder: Is it some new participation sport I'm failing to see the fun of? Or a masochistic mass-self-flagellation ceremony?
Just thought I'd ask.
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November 2008
