If you are new to the business of retailing and sourcing wholesale goods, then you probably have come across a website named doba.com. Doba.com is a consolidated product sourcing solution which until recently was a unique blend of product sourcing, order fulfillment and drop shipping. Doba’s aim is to connect drop shipping wholesale suppliers with online retailers to provide a top-to-bottom supply chain management system for all kinds of goods.

To understand where Doba type services fit in wholesale supply, you need to know a little about the other types of wholesale contact lists that are out there.

First, there are sites that serve simply as wholesale contact lists, or wholesale directories, simply listing suppliers of wholesale source, closeouts, overstocks and drop shipping. This is thought of as the ‘no-middleman’ approach, however, due to the masses of information available, it may take considerable time to pick the respective supplier of the product that you are looking for. In addition to this, when you are dealing with a wholesale supplier, you will find that there is a huge price variation if you don’t already have a long standing relationship with them.

In addition to this, well known wholesale directories don’t filter their listings, which means there is no differentiation between legitimate wholesale suppliers and middlemen. This means that you could wind up paying marked up for your wholesale goods.

This is where systems like Doba come into play. What happens when you sign up to this service is that you are connected with many different suppliers of goods that you are looking for. But instead of digging for the wholesale source that you need, you search by the product that you are looking for.

There is a giant time saver when you take into account that you can directly source the exact product that you are looking for, many of which are sought after names. In addition, it doesn’t matter if you are searching for two completely different products with different wholesale suppliers, as you are efficiently able to instantly pull up the wholesale goods that you are looking for.

Because systems like this drive a huge amount of business to the wholesale suppliers, when you buy wholesale goods this way, you get the biggest possible mark down available.

In addition to this, instead of dealing with orders from a number of different wholesale suppliers, you will instead simply be ordering using the Doba interface. Even if you were to order from ten different suppliers, you would only need to place one main order and Doba would do the rest.

The one criticism that people have in relation to Doba.com is that it doesn’t act as a traditional wholesale source, but rather as a middleman by charging a fixed monthly membership fee and also raising wholesale prices, however, there are other services similar to Doba which do provide all the benefits without this one negative. If you are serious that you want to buy wholesale goods to resell – then using a service like Doba is the best way to go about it.

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