Salehoo Scam–Is Salehoo Legitimate?
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Filed under Salehoo Scam
I’ve talked about this in other posts–the Salehoo scam question–but the question keeps coming up, and many people come to this site based on that question alone. Is Salehoo legitimate? If you have looked into Salehoo for any time at all, you have probably discovered that there is a rabidly vocal cadre who vehemently insist that Salehoo is an utter sham. Ultimately, the only way you will every know for sure–assuming it is importat enough–is to sign up and find out for yourself.
Before I give my own opinion, I’ll say right out that I am a member. You will notice that I advertise Salehoo on my site, and I do so because I think it is worthwhile product. Obviously, I don’t think Salehoo is a scam. As a member, I can tell you that Salehoo provides a directory of approximately 8000 suppliers. Among them, there are drop shippers, wholesalers, product manufacturers, liquidators, and surpluss supply sources. There are also many general goods suppliers who sell steeply discounted goods at near or below wholesale prices.
In addition to the directory, Salehoo also has a forum that is fairly actively attended and which I think is perhaps its most valuable asset. Not only is there a wealth of information you can data mine on product sources, but the community itself provides blunt and honest up to date feedback and advice on your product sourcing/ecommerce questions. Forum categories include: dropshipping and dropshippers, general trading advice, product sources and suppliers, supplier wanted, products and brands, and scams, ripoffs, fraud and complaints.
Salehoo also makes available basic educational materials to help members on the following topics:
- importing and shipping
- Setting up a business
- finding and sourcing products
- scam prevention
- selling on ebay
- tools for ebay sellers
I have been a member for seveal years now, I have never had reason to think that Salehoo wasn’t a legitimate membership. Will the Salehoo membership solve your product sourcing problems? That I can’t say. I hope so, but everyone’s needs are different, and there are simply no one-size-fits-all solutions to ecommerce.
Personally, I don’t think you need to join Salehoo or any other membership to find wholesale drop ship product suppliers, suppliers for ebay auctions. or suppliers for any other venture you have in mind.
The Question I Always Ask
The question I always ask when when the subject of wholesale products sourcing comes up is, ” What product or products do you want to sell?” If you can answer that question, then I don’t think you need a membership. It doesn’t hurt to have as many resources under your belt as possible, but I think if you have figured out your business well enough to know what it is you are going to sell then product suppliers will start to fall into line.
Also, what you are selling will to some degree narrow the kind of supplier and pool of available sources. For example, if you are going to sell hand painted clothing, joining a membership with thousands of suppliers largely geared to mass market items may not work for you. If you are going to be selling jewelry made by local artisans, then again, a wholesale supply membership may not be of much help.
My advice to you before joining any product sourcing membership is to ask yourself what problem you want the membership to help you solve and how the membership will fit in with your business plan. Of course, there is nothing wrong with joining just to find out what it is all about or for “recreatioal” purposes, but I’m assuming that you are reading this with business on your mind. I hope this helps.
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