Direct Buy Membership Cost

"What does a Direct Buy Membership cost?"

Being a bargain hunter, you always look for the best deal you can find. You dig deep and come up with the information you need to make the right decision. In this article, I will do my best to show you the costs associated with Direct Buy membership and the opinions of people just like you who have allready done research to answer this question.

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• Direct Buy Membership Costs - What do you get for your money
• Alternatives to Direct Buy Membership
• Reader Comments
• Direct Buy Membership news

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DirectBuy ^(tm) is a Canadian based company founded in 1971 that provides wholesale purchasing power to its members. With locations in Canada and the U.S. Direct Buy offers a store front location that provides access to the complete product line and pricing from more than 500 manufacturers and their direct distributors. Assistants are provided to help you with your product search and help with designing, arrange delivery, and find service support.

Price:

• Initial cost - $3500 to $4500

• Annual Fee - $200.
  

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***See below for low cost alternative***

Best Features:

• Customer Service - they do go out of their way to help you get what you need
• Every things in one location - Find what you need and then find the people to deliver, install, or repair what you've bought.

Worst Features:

• A huge initial investment - Unless you are building or remodeling a home and will be purchasing a lot of items, I would have to question it's economic benefit
• Complaints of high pressure sales tactics when you take the required pre-membership tour at one of their brick and mortar locations
• Service available at their store front locations. Requiring a trip to get what you want.
  

Direct Buy Membership Alternative:

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Official Site: http://salehoo.com

Cost: $67.00

Who are they? Salehoo is a directory of Wholesalers, Dropshippers, Liquidators, and Manufacturers. Based in New Zealand, Salehoo has a global outlook. Most importantly, Salehoo maintains a list of wholesalers who have no minimum purchase criteria. This is important because it enables the purchase of a single item at wholesale price.

Salehoo can be accessed from the internet making it possible to research and find items that you need no matter where you are. Work, Home, Coffee shop, Retailer stores or where ever. Give it a try on you Blackberry or iPhone to get an idea just how powerful this can be.

** Bargain hunters: This feature enables you to buy one single item direct from the manufacturer or wholesaler, potentially saving you a lot of money.

Here's a way to buy at wholesale and get a nice additional discount. It's a little known fact that the wholesalers you find on SaleHoo have affiliate programs that allow you to earn commissions on items you buy.

Some of the wholesalers listed in SaleHoo's directory will require a merchant account - really just some way to handle credit card transactions. You can sign up with PayPal and get a free account. You will then be able to process credit card transactions, satisfying the wholesalers requirements.

* The Salehoo website may be busy. If you experience timeouts try again a little later.