Currently, in our Drop Ship Source Directory and our Light Bulk Wholesale Directory, we list hundreds of genuine, verified Wholesale Suppliers. We're very proud of that; it took a long time and a great deal of difficult research to get there. That's more genuine Wholesale Suppliers, by far, than are listed in all the other lists and "directories" out there combined. Sure, others claim to list thousands, but those thousands are almost all fakes and middlemen. We continue to add new genuine Wholesale Suppliers all the time.
However, once in a while we lose a Wholesale Supplier or two as well.
Why? Do they decide they no longer want to drop ship? Do they go out of business? No. They decide that they don't want to deal with the number of people we send them who do not follow their instructions when setting up a new account!
This can be a bad thing for both of us.
For us, it's bad because we spend a great deal of time and money researching genuine Wholesale Suppliers. We don't just pull these companies out of a quick trip to a Search Engine, like all the other lists and "directories" on the Internet. As you know from reading our site, we put a great deal of effort into our research, and spend a lot of money on large numbers of "raw leads" that we develop into just a few real Wholesale Supplier that "make the cut" into one of our Directories. We don't like to lose those companies, but if they tell us to remove them, we remove them.
For you, it's bad because every Wholesale Supplier that drops out of one of our Directories is a lost opportunity for you. You won't find most of these companies listed anywhere else, in any other list or "directory". As I said, we don't just search the Search Engines. Our "raw leads" are lists of thousands of manufacturers and wholesalers across the US and around the world. We buy those lists from high-powered Research companies, and then we contact every manufacturer and wholesaler on those lists in order to find out if any of them Drop Ship, Light Bulk Wholesale, or will consider doing one of the two.
For example, in June of this year, we focused on finding new Wholesale Suppliers of products that would be good for the upcoming Holiday Season. One of the things we wanted to find were new Wholesale Supplier of Toys. So, as part of our research, we went to one of our Research sources and ordered a specially-designed list of raw leads containing only manufacturers and wholesalers of Toys. That list cost us more than a thousand dollars. It wasn't the only one we ordered in June; we spent several thousand dollars on raw leads in June, as we do just about every month.
Once we had this list, our Research Team spent a great deal more time sending out emails, making phone calls, responding to questions, and working with the suppliers on that list to sort out the few who were qualified to make it into one of our Directories. So, as I said, you won't find most of our Wholesale Supplier listed anywhere else on the Internet. Many of them don't advertise themselves as Drop Shippers or Light Bulk Wholesalers, since it's not their primary mission. Many others were convinced to become Drop Shippers or Light Bulk Wholesalers by us, and also do not advertise themselves that way.
Because of all this, if we lose a Wholesale Supplier, in most cases you lose them as well. You won't be able to contact them any other way, because you won't even know they're out there.
So, back to the point of this article. The one reason, more than any other by far, that a Wholesale Supplier requests to be removed from one of our Directories is because they get tired of dealing with people who do not pay attention to their instructions on setting up new Accounts.
Let's look at it from the Wholesale Suppliers' point of view. They think it's wonderful to be in one of our Directories. We do not charge them a cent to be listed with us. If we did, there might be many companies who would not be willing to pay a listing fee. We would be short-changing you, our Members, by excluding legitimate Wholesale Supplier from our Directories simply out of greed. That's not the way we operate. We list all genuine Wholesale Suppliers for free.
Again, the Wholesale Supplier think that's great. We get emails and phone calls from them all day long, telling us how wonderful they think our Directories are for their businesses. However, you have to understand that they are now getting a lot of new Account sign-ups, from our Members.