Hello everyone, I'm new to salehoo just joined today, I've sold on ebay for a few years off and on. Started with household stuff, my old military gear, eventually made good friends with a local second hand/over stock store. He had starbucks products such as famous city mugs and espresso pods. My biggest sell was VIA starbucks packs. I bought a few cases and I was able to sell it very quickly. I bought when he got it in until he got in touch with a large supplier. I made my biggest adventure and bought 10 pallets. The owner of the store helped me so much and let me buy it on his credit and paid him off as I made sales. I sold a large volume making around $4k in a few days. I was able to take the packets out of their factory boxes and dump them into flat rate boxes. This way I could move 12 cases of coffee in one large flat rate box. However I ran into a novice mistake. The coffee was completely drinkable as it was sealed in a nitrogen packet but the best by date was for 2 years previous. The problem is that ebay considered best by and expired dates the same thing. Ebay shut me down so I made my own shopify store and sold the rest through there.
Long story short my problem is just like everyone else' at some point. I need consist inventory compared to spotty stuff I get from the local supplier. I'm not interested in drop shipping I actually live in an apartment that is connected to a moderately sized warehouse. We call it the "bunkhouse" given my business name bunkhouse direct. I have terapeak and find it very useful. I strongly favor consumables since...eventually they run out. I know plenty of people have been in my situation and I'm certainly not looking for a "secret". Just asking for any advice anyone is willing to give. I'm all for paying attention to items that sell however I don't want to get into a business of a product I don't have much knowledge on. Thanks to everyone in advance!
