Originally Posted by ratedrsiko

thanks for the reply..i signed up today earlier...but when i saw the prices i was anooyed this is why the dropshipping annoys me.. when your like me and want to start of you want something sellable aswell as something good. when they stock games like resident evil 5 for 27.99 and i bought it for 17.99 about 2 months ago it annoys me..

hmm with wholesalers 9/10 want me to be registered have a vat number etc etc...

i dunno how to evan start haha!

Have you got Msn?

yes i do have pal..

siko_da_cobra@hotmail.com

thanks for the help

The main problem is people expect wholesale prices to be way under retail. Remember that the wholesale price (for new releases) will be based on the RRP (usally £45-50). Yet because the industry is so competitive, no one sells at RRP. It doesn't matter which wholesaler/Distributer you buy the game from the price will pretty much be the same.

The reason large on line stores can sell them so cheap is because they are happy to make as little as 50p profit per title (Play is a perfect example of this), and they don't have any ebay fees to pay.

Also all the major on line retailers have warehouses in Jersey or Guernsey or Switzerland so are exempt from paying VAT. I also know of some ebay sellers that do the same to dodge paying VAT.

Then there are the promo titles. A title (or group of titles) will be discounted for a period of time. People will buy these in bulk, then sell when the price goes back up (which is what will have happened in the Resent Evil 5 Example).

Some stores just sell titles as loss leaders to build the brand (although this does not happen as often as you may think)

Spend some time researching the industry and how it works. The suppliers are out there. The profits are notoriously small but with hard work and dare I say a little good luck, it is possible to make a living.

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Originally Posted by JustCraig

The main problem is people expect wholesale prices to be way under retail. Remember that the wholesale price (for new releases) will be based on the RRP (usally £45-50). Yet because the industry is so competitive, no one sells at RRP. It doesn't matter which wholesaler/Distributer you buy the game from the price will pretty much be the same.

The reason large on line stores can sell them so cheap is because they are happy to make as little as 50p profit per title (Play is a perfect example of this), and they don't have any ebay fees to pay.

Also all the major on line retailers have warehouses in Jersey or Guernsey or Switzerland so are exempt from paying VAT. I also know of some ebay sellers that do the same to dodge paying VAT.

Then there are the promo titles. A title (or group of titles) will be discounted for a period of time. People will buy these in bulk, then sell when the price goes back up (which is what will have happened in the Resent Evil 5 Example).

Some stores just sell titles as loss leaders to build the brand (although this does not happen as often as you may think)

Spend some time researching the industry and how it works. The suppliers are out there. The profits are notoriously small but with hard work and dare I say a little good luck, it is possible to make a living.

thanks for your answer, this is entirely correct.. ive been reading and looking for two years.. the games market is so stiff that for new people is very impossible to break into. and the many that do..only a few actually reap the rewards of due to the time and effort they put into it