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way answering some of your questions if
you're just getting started so I'm
really excited to be sharing this with
you guys today because I feel like this
is something that we all need to know so
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because today's video is brought to you
guys by questions that were left in the
last video so in my previous video I had
two people Nikki and sitting pretty P is
her username Nikki asks can you talk
about vendors process of purchasing
wholesale and then sitting pretty said
where do you buy your accessories and
stuff from so in this video I thought
would be cool to share with you guys
kind of how to buy products online for
your store where you can buy products
have you just go about getting your
products and stuff like that so if you
guys are interested go ahead and keep
watching now this is going to be a
little bit more complicated now because
we are dealing with the virus and
shipping is a whole mess right now
but there are websites where you can get
your products from you don't have to go
to a warehouse and get inventory that
way it's definitely an option but to
answer the question specifically where
do I buy my stuff from I live about 30
minutes from downtown LA so we have a
wholesale district that's where I used
to buy my products from ways to go down
there but with the virus it's closed now
so I have switched to buying products
online so before I was able to get them
in person I'm not able to anymore
but if you live near a big city I would
recommend just googling if there's any
wholesale districts wholesale areas or
Google whatever you want to sell like
you wanted to sell hair Google hair
wholesaler in whatever city you live in
so like hair wholesaler in los
Angeles you can try to see if you can
like go in that way but definitely if
you are going to go that route you need
your sellers permit you need to get that
first before you go in and try to buy
inventory that's what you need but this
way the these ways that I have um you
don't necessarily need your host element
yet to buy them this way I definitely
recommend you get it though but you
don't need one to access the wholesale
prices with this way there are some
websites that you can go on that are
very generic that you can just get your
items from so if you want to buy
wholesale hair you want to buy wholesale
ashes you want to buy wholesale lipgloss
you want to buy wholesale I don't know
shoes clothing these websites are pretty
generic so you can kind of they should
be able to work for everybody but there
are three websites that I know for sure
are really easily accessible they might
mind you they do ship from China so they
will take a while to get to you but the
three is one is Aliexpress which is a
very common one a lot of people use that
one to buy their wholesale products from
usually if you buy in bulk like if you
buy 20 of an item or 50 of an item
they'll give you a discount and you're
able to just go on the website and buy
what you want
the other one is Alex no Alibaba and
that one you need usually you need to
buy a bigger quantity but it's cheaper
and it's cheaper because Alibaba
normally is like here's al Express
Alibaba is here normally people from
Aliexpress are buying from Alibaba
because you need to buy such a big
quantity usually to get a discount
Alibaba is normally the suppliers like
the warehouses they're making the
products so it's a lot cheaper but you
need to buy in bulk like for example I
sell microfiber hair towels I had those
custom-made from a warehouse and shipped
to me I had to buy over a thousand
dollars worth of product to be honest
but I bought them fairly inexpensive so
it took a long time to ship that's kind
of two options two routes that you can
go
you can go Aliexpress or you can go
Alibaba so those are two that I would
recommend you look into I will leave
them linked in the description box but
there's one more that I haven't heard
too many people talk about but it's
literally very similar and this is
DHgate I have used this as well to buy
products I've used it more recently I
have used that website too and that's a
very generic website you can go on there
and search what you want in the in the
search Description search what you want
and you're able to get your products
that way again I think it's gonna take a
long time for you to get your products
but those are ways and those are what a
lot of stores are doing to get their
items
one thing I also like about Alibaba is
you can have them customize your items
and then send them to you so like let's
say you wanted to sell lashes you can
have them customize the lash box they
can put your logo on the lash box they
can do all of that thing all of that
stuff and then ship it to you so all you
have to do is like when some of the
orders you just put in the order and
then you ship it and then there you go
it's you're good to go
versus like for example for me I mean I
use my logo I have my logo stickers I
have my own business cards I have I just
customized things on my own here at home
versus you can have the warehouses
customized items for you so it's
completely up to you what's in your
budget what how much you want to spend
on inventory
I wouldn't recommend buying huge
quantities when you're first starting
out I would buy small see what your
clientele is like see how many orders
you're averaging and that will determine
if you should buy more or not those are
some tips that I have when it comes to
wholesale and how to buy cheap items how
to get your inventory together those are
just some ways that you can do it and
then to just so you guys know normally
when people talk about vendors what they
mean is like I'm waiting for my vendor I
haven't had a vendor yet normally when
they go on those Aliexpress or Alibaba
websites who's ever store you're buying
from normally is like what they call
your vendor so if I wanted to buy hair
and there's this place called angel hair
on Alibaba and they sell hair I could
call them my vendor if I'm
connecting with them they're shipping me
stuff I like the quality of their stuff
they're my vendor I like the quality
that they put out so I also recommend if
you can buy ask for samples if they
don't send you samples buy a sample
first before you start selling them
before you buy them in bulk if you can
if you can't wait I understand for sure
but I would just recommend because if
you guys have a seen those means that
are all over the place that's like what
you think you're getting versus what you
get it can kind of be like that
sometimes with buying stuff online so I
just would be a little bit cautious
definitely check out reviews see how
many sales that they have sold check out
if they have reviews of pictures check
out that so you can kind of get an idea
of what their quality is like but that's
the T on how to get inventory how to
stock up your chips how to get your
inventory in your collection together
let me know if you guys have any other
questions for sure and I'll just catch
you in my next video bye guys