FREE List of US Dropshipping Suppliers For Your eBay, Amazon or Shopify Store

so there are lists out there of suppliers to use for your drop shipping business but you need to know how to sort through that list or you might end up with a bad supplier what's up everyone paul here from dropshippingtitans. com where i teach regular people just like you how to start your first successful drop shipping store and one of the biggest struggles that i see new drop shippers face is the struggle of finding a good supplier to use now there are a lot of free lists out there but if you just choose a random supplier from that list there's a really good chance they're not going to be a good fit for drop shipping or the type of drop shipping that you want to do so it's better to do this and start on the right foot here put in the research and the time up front to find the good suppliers don't worry in this video i'm going to show you exactly how to do it so i'll show you the easiest method first if you're looking to drop ship from other retail websites what i'm talking about are websites like walmart. com then i highly recommend that you use a software such as autods this is what i use and what this will do this will allow you to quickly list items onto ebay and if the price or stock changes on the retailer's website it will automatically change on ebay for you and autods does that for you now the really cool thing is that they tell you what suppliers they work with and this is a really good place to start this is your first list so they have amazon here that's not one that i recommend that you drop ship from because what we've seen is that ebay doesn't like it walmart is a really good supplier they also have banggood aliexpress home depot wayfarer costco overstock costaway and china brands so with that list how do you know which ones to use well this is what i look for i always look for suppliers that have really easy websites to work with so walmart is a for instance probably the best example very easy simple website to use i also look for fast shipping and walmart definitely checks off that box or at least have consistent shipping speeds so that we always know how long it's going to take for the customer to get the item also we look for good customer service and walmart definitely has that so coming back to this list on auto ds we see that they use walmart which is a good choice home depot fits all that as well wayfair costco overstock costs way all good choices now they have other ones here like banggood aliexpress and china brands if you use those you're going to be drop shipping from china now this is why i said in the beginning you have to have a supplier that fits with the type of drop shipping that you want to do now personally i advocate doing us-based suppliers because faster shipping easier to do with returns and usually there's better customer service and higher quality but that's not to say that drop shipping from china is wrong you just have to make sure it fits your criteria and figure out what that is like i've used banggood in the past i've used aliexpress and i've used china brands and they're all fine but personally i like having us-based suppliers now if you're deciding not to use retail websites to dropship from then another choice for you would

be to use wholesale suppliers so the difference between retail and wholesale is that when you're doing retail you're buying from another website that means you're paying the retail price with wholesale drop shipping the benefit is that you're paying wholesale pricing so your margins on the items you sell are going to be much higher than it would be with retail drop shipping now the drawback is that wholesale is not as easy to start up that's why i said that this is best for beginners just very simple and easy to start with wholesale you have to form connections with these wholesale companies get them to agree to dropship products for you now luckily there is a software for this called inventory source and by the way i'll have links to both auto ds and inventory source under this video but quite honestly inventory source is not a software that i personally use even though i do wholesale drop shipping and that's primarily because it's so expensive to use them i just found that it's much easier to do it manually for wholesale because with wholesale the prices of the items don't change as often and the stock levels either but it is free to sign up for an inventory source account the only thing you'll get for free though is this list of suppliers that you could potentially use and the list has 4 500 suppliers so it's a huge list but just like before we have to sort through these and find ones that fit our criteria so personally i'm again looking for ones that are us-based faster on the shipping uh hopefully have great customer service as well those are the main things i look out for there's a lot more of criteria that i look for that i cover in my wholesale course but for now we'll just look kind of for that and the other thing i also avoid are aggregators so there's this website here called us direct or doba for instance these are both aggregators

and what that means is that you're not working directly with a wholesale supplier instead you are working with a company that brings in several other companies that are willing to drop ship and you only have to sign up for one of these accounts now that sounds good because it sounds like you get access to a lot of suppliers but in general we have found that these don't work as well for one thing they charge you to use them which i'm never i'm pretty much against doing that and i just found it's better to work directly with suppliers so we do avoid these aggregators and for wholesale we also definitely avoid chinese-based

chinese-based uh suppliers or anyone outside the united states but this is one i've used right here so let me show you why i liked this one and why this one checked off all the boxes for me so i'm going to go ahead and open them up and i'm going to visit their website so first i want to make sure that they are us-based and a really good place to look for all the information i'm going to talk about is either in the menu bar at the top or in the footer at the bottom and here bottom we see that they are based in new jersey so they're us-based i also want to make sure that they are not an aggregator of any kind and the best way to do that is just kind of see i mean they don't charge you any money to sign up that's what i would look for and also want to see if they're using multiple different suppliers you can kind of click through the website to get that get an idea of that and by clicking through this one i don't see any indication that they are the other thing that i look for is things like do they do drop shipping that's a major one and they specifically say here they do drop shipping it's right here um but another place i would look is down here at the bottom let's see what they have faq let's check on that is there a fee to be a reseller no again that's something i look for make sure there's no fee um let's search for the word drop ship blind drop shipping is not available but that's okay yeah so they talk all about drop shipping here so it is clear that they do it um it does say there's no drop ship fee so that's important to know as well you they it doesn't if they do charge a drop shipping fee that's okay as long as it's not too high it's ideally it's better if they don't also you want to make sure that there's no minimum order requirement because there's no point in them drop shipping if they make you buy five or ten at a time but over here we see that there's no minimum order so that's checks off another box and the other main thing i look for is to make sure that we actually are getting wholesale pricing because they do claim to be a wholesaler but here you see that it's a dealer's only website which means that the general public can't access this website at all so that's a sign that they can't buy any of the products unless you become a dealer so that's all great this checks off all the boxes but some other places i would look are sometimes terms and can no usually not terms and condition well this one actually is pretty good this one offers some information about the return policy which you might want to know about the shipping costs all good information i can also click on product offering at the top and just kind of go through these websites to kind of get a feel for how they work now if you're unable to find all the information that you're looking for to see if this is a good supplier to use my suggestion would be to call them up or email them ideally and talk with them ask them the questions that you want answered and they'll be able to help you out and that also gives you a good idea of what their customer service will be like are they responsive do they actually someone actually pick up the phone does it is a deadline all these kind of things would help you figure out if they're a good supplier or not but i went through this website they look like a great supplier i've actually used them before so they get the thumbs up from me now obviously this list with 4 500 products is big

but if you're still looking for more wholesale suppliers i have another resource for you and that's for you to look at any expo that's going on so any sort of um they have these every single year multiple times a year throughout the country are conferences where they bring in different retailers selling their products they call them expos and so they have pet expos for instance and they have drone expos and pretty much any topic you can think of anything that people buy retail they have an expo for it so it's a chance for the manufacturers suppliers to come in showcase their items and then for retailers to then come in and say yeah i want these items and a lot of these suppliers at these expos will drop shipped products for you now you don't actually have to go to the expo yourself you can just search on google so in this case i search for pet expo and this came up and it's showing me all the exhibitors that are going to be there now not all these exhibitors are going to be a good fit so again you got to go through this is a long list but you go through these it has 4 800 so we've just doubled the number of wholesale suppliers that we have just go through this and make sure they fit all the criteria that you're looking for and that's another really easy way to find a free list of suppliers to use for your drop shipping business and this definitely takes work it definitely takes time to go through these lists and to find good suppliers but the good news is that especially with wholesale you only need one good supplier if you find one supplier with really good margins there's high demand for them and lower competition that one is all you need to have a really good start to your drop shipping business and so that's what i did i actually went to this expo last year found a good supplier and that one good supplier that i found a few of them but there's one really good one that's what really started my wholesale business so this is a really great way to find these free lists and i did talk about this software auto ds now if you want to see all the software that i use for my drop shipping business including my wholesale business to check out this video right here i go in depth show you exactly how to use all that software and i'll see you over there in just a few seconds