Wholesalers?

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Originally Posted by Uncle Festae

If you're having trouble finding a wholesaler, maybe you could go through somebody who flips for a wholesaler. There are plenty of those around ;) :)

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OH MY GAWD!!! LOL....

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Originally Posted by Uncle Festae

If you're having trouble finding a wholesaler, maybe you could go through somebody who flips for a wholesaler. There are plenty of those around ;) :)

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That actually is not that bad of an idea. Thousands of businesses in this country make money by buying and selling items. I know of several smaller construction material companies that do this kind of business.

For example, in order to purchase home windows from a certain manufacturing (or wholesale) company you must order over $60,000 worth a windows a year in order to have an account. Since most small time contractors don't go through $60,000 worth of windows a year, a middleman that has the money to spend comes in. He buys $60,000 worth of windows at a discounted wholesale price, marks it up to the standard market price then sells it to the contractors.

...I can think of tons of examples...but they all follow the same principal.

It is actually very common and helpful to the industry.

when i worked at the petstore we have a company we could order one or two items from - as they ordered in the larger quantities. it worked really well for us.

we didn't end up with 40,000 dog balls... :P

there's good eating on them things. :P




dr del

:rofl: it took me a minute derek... but you got me good! :P

well you know me - I can never resist a good feed line. :oops:



dr del

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Originally Posted by ECLARK

Mike, Central pet is a big dry goods wholesaler in your area. also try Kenlin supply. :)


The live goods wholesalers are a guarded secret, trail and error my friend.

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There is an awesome wholesaler in Shelton CT for marine fish. I'll ask him if he has info on reptile wholesalers.

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Originally Posted by JASBALLS

OH MY GAWD!!! LOL....

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I thought the same thing. LOL.


Wouldn't that make your prices too high in a very competitive market by going thru a middleman?

Most wholesalers will not sell straight to a store. Penn Plex does, and there are rumors of others going direct... it's risky. Manafactures want a wholesaler to stock their product and push it. Not every manf. can have a warehouse, and not every store can do 10 min. orders from diffrent lines to keep their store stocked, so you have comps. like Central... They house what they believe to be the most markatable products, and their sales reps go out and push it. This makes the companies and reps money full circle... Manafactures do spiff programs etc... to ge the reps to push their items they need to move etc etc etc...................

So, if you want to open a store, as mentioned.... contact SEVERAL distributers... because they are ALL going to want you to order from them, especially the ISO (inital stocking order)... Unless you plan to carry only 10 SKU's of product.. I know Central is there, not sure who else..... they own on the Reptile side... ESU and the new Zilla line. But you can buy Zoo-Med, T-Rex, Exo-Terra, etc through them....it's wise IMO to order from at least 2 wholesalers... that way you have access to diffrent product, sales, etc......... My 6 :2cent: :2cent: :2cent: worth... :P

Thanks everybody, great ideas and suggestions. I am currently trying to get into grad school so there would be no pet store for the next few years if ever, but i figured researching early is better than waiting. Thanks to all of you who have made suggestions and comments. Thanks for the support too!
~mike