AboutMichael Michelini Expertise selling on ebay, selling on your own website via ecommerce, listing on google adwords, landing pages,
Experience Since 2003 I have been doing marketing and sales for technology companies. In 2004 I started my own online ebay and ecommerce shop. I have fun and good (and bad!) experiences with ebay, amazon, google adwords.
In late 2007 I opened a company in China, where I source products for ecommerce as well as build and promote my US and China online shops.
Organizations Google Adwords Certification
Shadstone Associates, Inc
Parallel Phenomena, Inc - New York Bar Store
Education/Credentials Google adwords certified professional, masters in Tech management, bachelors in engineering management
Question First of all thank you for your time !! I would like to open a e-bay store and sell golf equipment and bowling equipment but I am having a hard time getting a hold of wholesalers for golf and bowling they do not want to sell to people who want to e-commerce could use some help with some wholesalers
Answer Hi Greg,
Happy to hear you are entering the world of ecommerce! This is the future, and maybe those wholesalers your are contacting now feel threatened new competition is entering, who knows.
I remember having the same problem when I started my ebay store. Many wholesalers are not setup for e-commerce.
What i would recommend you do is do research on "drop ship" or "drop shippers", these are suppliers who understand ecommerce and will ship direct to your customer from their warehouse - no need for you to pre-pay and stock the inventory.
Sure, you may worry they will take your customer, or something like this, but this is a much better way to enter ecommerce. you don't take inventory risk.
And then you can see which products sell better, and if you decide to start buying wholesale, then you can negotiate better pricing and organize a place to warehouse
hope this helps - but yea, I would research drop shippers of golf equipment.
BE CAREFUL - many drop ship sources try to charge you membership fees, look around before signing
