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Fake wholesalers can be classified as middlemen or scam artists. Not only will fake wholesale suppliers hurt your business, but they can also hurt your customers and ruin your reputation.

Working with genuine wholesale suppliers is essential to any online business. Getting tangled in the web of fraud, fake and scam wholesalers is difficult for your business to recover from. We have heard so many horror stories from online retailers. Ultimately, that is one of the main reasons why WorldwideBrands.com got started over 25 years ago!

What Do Fake Wholesalers Looks Like?

Fake wholesalers are "companies" online that look like legitimate companies, but do one or more of the following;

1. Charge you annual or monthly membership fees: Real Wholesale Suppliers do not charge monthly or annual membership fees in order to resell their products. Genuine wholesale suppliers are free to work with and do not charge you these extra fees just for the honor of selling what they offer. The ONLY time that this is OK is if they offered you an additional service that you selected from them. But all real wholesalers will not charge you to just resell.

2. Take your money and run: So after you pay your membership fee, and then start listing products for sale... everything seems to be going great until you make your first order. You place the order with the "supplier" and nothing ever gets shipped! You have already paid your membership fee, paid for the product and now you aren't getting any responses from the "wholesaler". Or you are getting bogus answers and your customer is getting angry!

3. Scamming Your Customers: When you place an order with a drop ship supplier, you provide the company with your customers' information. This can also include phone and email address. Uh oh! You just provided the scammy wholesale supplier another person to contact, harass and try to make money from. Your customer will know that they ordered from you and will eventually connect the dots.

Staying Away from Fake Wholesalers

Stay away from fake wholesalers that will damage your business and your reputation by only working with genuine wholesale suppliers. The best and original source for genuine wholesale companies is here at Worldwide Brands!

All of our members have the security of knowing that every wholesale supplier listed in our Directory of WBI Certified Wholesalers and Dropshippers has been checked out and verified legitimate by our team of experts. Our listed suppliers do not charge membership fees and they will deliver products as expected. And they will not market to or scam YOUR customers!

Learn about WBI Certified Dropshippers here; https://worldwidebrands.com/dropshipping/