Flea Market Distributors.?

Question

How would I find wholesalers or distributors for products I want to sell at a flea market. Also anything specific to the west coast of Florida - Tampa area.

Answer 1

Google is your friend .

Do a search using " wholesalers in tampa " or narrow it down to  what  kind of articles DO you want to sell ?

If you have the money and the storage space, I'd buy "pallet lots " of strore returns, or discontinued items, from a "skid lot wholesaler ".

Do a Google on that term, looking for ones  located in   Sunrise Florida.

A  skid wholesaler buys tractor trailer loads from places like Sears and Target, and then  breaks  them down in to 4 foot square shrink wrapped pallets.  Piled 6 feet high , they can be worth up to $3,000 retail price, and  sell for about 300 to 500 dollars each, depending on what stuff is on the skid. The material is new, or strore returns, or discontinued lines.

Skids are selected by type. Sporting goods, housewares, health and beauty aids, clothing, toys, seasonal, and any other stuff that is sold in a department store.

You have to be able to go and pay for it and take it away. They don't deliver, unless you buy a whole 53 foot trailer load of stuff. Yes they do have whole trailers full of stuff , like 56,000  quarts of  white paint, or 500 electric lawn mowers, but you have to buy the whole  truck load .  Skid lots are the better deal for starters.

Cash or credit cards only.  And you need to have a Florida State business licence and a county business permit.  in your hand,  before they will sell to you.

Check it out.

Jim B.                   Toronto  .Ontario. Canada,