Step 1- make sure you do your market research, this is the foundation for your ultimate success. By carefully doing your market research this will actually double your chance of making a nice profit from the wholesale goods that you buy. Do your market research using Google ad words keyword tool. To know if there is a healthy in demand market, check to see if their is ten thousand on more searches being performed for that particular item each month. This will indicate to you a very healthy market, which is worth pursuing.

Step 2 - how to pick a wholesale supplier? Make sure you check that the wholesale supplier gives you a full business name, and business registration number.

Step 3 -Then check for a legitimate telephone number that you can contact this business from. Then actually call the number if you have never heard of this wholesale supplier before. Not accept mobile telephone numbers by themselves, all real companies out there should have a real landline telephone number to get a hold of them.

Step 4 - go to whois.com and search for the name of the wholesale supplier you are thinking about joining. A legitimate wholesale supplier will have a domain name or domain expiration date of several years down the road. Most legitimate wholesale drop shipping suppliers out there, will have already reserved their domain name in advance for about 3 to 5 years time.

Step 5 - make sure that the wholesale supplier you are thinking about joining uses secure payment methods such as escrow.com, credit cards such as Visa and MasterCard, and they are PayPal verified . A lot of people online use PayPal these days because it is easy, fast, and secure. If your still uncertain? Ask other wholesale sellers what their experience has been with the company you are thinking about joining on the eBay forums .

Step 6 - if you are looking for some legitimate wholesale suppliers.Make sure that the wholesale supplier is independently rated and reviewed by eBay. Such as eBay power sellers, and the industry experts, if you find all of these to be on the up and up mostly positive. Then you have found a great wholesale supplier to make some money with. See my links below for my personal recommendations.