Wholesale 101
Battle of Online Buyer Sob Stories - 3rd Edition
Welcome to our third edition of Battle of Buyer Sob Stories, where we rank Sob Stories sent to online Sellers in hopes of getting a discount.If you're not familiar with "Sob Stories" it's when a buyer reaches out to a seller to try to get a discount beyond what the listing is priced at and provides the seller with a story about how difficult their life is... because, apparently (they believe), the more difficult their life is, the lesser of a price they should pay for someone else's hard-earned
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10th Feb 2022
Dangers of Online Seller: Buyer Harassing through Text Message
Hopefully you have taken the time to read all of our blog posts in our Dangers of Online Selling category because these articles teach you how to protect yourself and safely sell online. In todays post we are sharing yet another nightmare experienced that a Poshmark seller, nasturtium5, who we will call “Nat” experienced. Nat was just like any other Posh seller; happily listing and successfully selling merchandise without any major issues…. Until one day when she received a text message on
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2nd Feb 2022
Online Sellers: Battle of Buyer Sob Stories ~ 2nd Edition
Welcome to our second edition of Battle of Buyer Sob Stories, where we rank Sob Stories sent to online Sellers in hopes of getting a discount. If you're not familiar with "Sob Stories" its when a buyer reaches out to a seller to try to get a discount beyond what the listing is priced at. THE POINT SYSTEMWe judge each Sob Story based on only two criteria: Creativity and Believability. The buyer will earn a score of 1 through 5 points, based on how creative and unique their S
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27th Jan 2022
Online Sellers: Do Low Priced Items Really Attract the WORST Buyers?
There’s so many threads in Reddit discussing the phenomenon of low priced items leading to endless headache for the seller. As an example; a $7 GameBoy leads to not only a chargeback but also bad feedback and even threats while a $1,500 commercial printer leads to a 5 star feedback with 0 issues. Here’s my thoughts on this issue, based on my 16+ years of online selling experience:I often chat with a fellow wholesaler. He is in NJ and we are in MI. Although we are about 11-hours-drive-time ap
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9th Sep 2021
Are Online Buyers Really More Crazy During a Full Moon?
I don’t know about you, but here at BigBrandWholesale we realized there are random days where people are, quite frankly, pretty insane. When we notice a mass uptick in insanity we ask our friend who owns a wholesale company on the east coast if he is dealing with the same, and the answer is always “YES!!!” and it just so happens that these days ALWAYS DO align with the full moon, but it is true or is it just a super bizarre, ongoing fluke?Everyone has heard phrases like “It must be a full m
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29th Aug 2021