Antiques and Collectibles

Wholesale collectibles offers resellers high profit margins along with high volume sales, when done right.

Resellers, whether flea market vendors, eBay sellers, or dollar stores, will be faced with competition from online and offline retailers who can buy wholesale collectibles at a lower price.

To outmaneuver this competition in the wholesale collectibles business, resellers need to have a strategic plan in place.

Part one of their plan deals with finding the best sources for wholesale collectibles at the lowest possible prices.

For this reason I would recommend resellers to stay away from drop shippers when looking for collectibles.

Since the drop shipper is set up to offer his products to thousands of other resellers, you will not be able to compete based on price. All the resellers are paying the same price to the wholesale collectibles drop shipper, so how can your prices be lower?

When looking to buy wholesale collectibles you want to get as close to the source as possible.

Since you will not be able to buy brand name wholesale collectibles for a lower price than major retailers can, you will want to look for lesser known wholesale collectibles sellers.

For instance, ABC Collectibles might not have the name recognition that Marvel Comics enjoys, but you can show customers that the quality is the same, and as long as your prices are lower some customers should buy the wholesale collectibles manufactured by ABC Collectibles.

When you contact these companies looking for wholesale collectibles ask them for their overstock, overrun, and closeout deals. You would be surprised at the wholesale collectibles deals you can find from small manufacturers that are looking to move merchandise out.

You can find great wholesale collectibles deals but it will take some solid leg work.

Donny Lowy is the CEO of http://www.closeoutexplosion.com, an online wholesale and closeout business, and http://www.wholesalecloseoutforum.com, an educational site for the wholesale and closeout business.