Wholesale 101

Man, we have gotten so much rain here in Michigan during the past week that our plants and diabolical weeds are growing like...well, weeds! Its so crazy that gardening has become another part time job for me (taking care of all of my aquariums is another part time job). Here’s a couple pics of the smaller gardens as of July 1st, 2021; they’re kind of in order, so pretend we are going on a walk together as you look at them:Anyways, so this evening I was working in my garden and pulling dreaded …

If you sell on Amazon you already know that buyers have figured out a way to escape paying for return shipping by simply selecting “Inaccurate Description” even though there is absolutely nothing inaccurate with it.  This issue doesn’t just impact Amazon sellers; dishonest buyers are everywhere. It plagues our industry (wholesale) too. In the wholesale industry people will buy something (let’s say a 50 piece bulk lot that contains 25 Nike tees and 25 Puma tees). They will then claim it’s …

If you bought something online and you promptly received your tracking number (HOORAY!) but days or weeks have passed and it still isn’t updating (BOO!) you are likely beginning to wonder “What on earth is going on here?”, so let me tell you how to get to the bottom of it. If you read my blog post from last year called WTF eBay?! Letting Scammers Take Over Your Site you have already heard my rant about my son getting utterly scammed out of his allowance THREE TIMES in a row when simply t …

Typically our blog posts are designed to help and inform resellers but today’s post is one you should share with EVERYONE in your life, because this is crazy.This story begins in Michigan on April 13th, 2021. Our FedEx Freight driver arrives to deliver our pallets and he says “Look what I found in the parking lot!” and proceeds to show me this:My immediate response was “It’s your lucky day!”, to which he replies, “I thought that too…. But it’s fake”. In confusion I responded, “How do you know? …

If a buyer contacts you in a panic and demands that you refund the “Double Charge”; READ THIS FIRST!As you already know, if you are an online seller, it is very difficult (I may even say “impossible”) to double-charge someone unless you are manually running payments. Regardless, you have to address the issue, so here’s how to deal with it:The goal of a “You Double Charged Me Scam” is to get the seller to refund a LEGITIMATE order by tricking the honest seller into believing they charged the buy …