E-bay is very effective,they charge listing fees which are 2.50 .Also there is craigslist.com....or you could start your own website.by the way craigslist is free.
I have not heard about Etsy and alibaba.com before. Yes, Ebay charges fees. I suggest that you should have social-marketing website like Facebook - prompting your items to your close friends and their friends till networking of friends. Good luck for your small business. Cheers!
I have used ebay and etsy. Ebay fees have gotten ridiculous lately and I use only etsy now. For 20 cents you can list on etsy and it stays listed for 4 months I think. The people I have dealt with on etsy have been great. Create an account and ask questions in the etsy chat rooms under the community tab, most people there are really helpful.
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The problems with the places you have mentioned is that you are one of millions trying to do the same thing. Your problem with selling in bulk is you have no numbers to give. They will want to know more then price. What about returns? Shipping? Recommendations from other businesses you have sold to? If you are selling it on ebay. for what price as this will impact my mark-up as I am now in competition with you. Are you a legit business and so own.Anytime you are just starting out, you want to take advantage of other places that are just starting out or smaller businesses. It is very hard to get your products in big box chains at first.For example:To start out, in essence you drop ship. You go to small businesses that are selling online and or have real store locations. You then ask them to list your items on their sites. You can keep their risk low, by then letting them sell your items once a sale is made on their site, they then order it from you. You in turn send it to the customer using their name (the site that sold it will pay you for the shipping since they collected it when the initial sale was made.You can now make a website (your products for wholesale) where other companies can contact you. You can list the businesses that you are currently selling to. You can add a buy now feature, with a link to their sites, in case a consumer (non business) goes there. This does many things.... It gives you exposure, them exposure, and best of all it makes the risk of doing business with you very low and more enticing. This is what as known as one hand washing the other.If you would like to send me some pictures, brief descriptions, and a basic prile list, I will contact some of the companies I sell my apparel on/at maybe hook you up.
