Any Market Traders On Here?

[phleb]

tell me where you get your stock from? I would love some to sell. Why don't people tell their contacts? If the other person is selling elsewhere, whats the worry in that?

[Buenchico]

Pop into any W H Smiths (or almost any other large newsagent's shop) with £3.30 clutched in your hand and ask for a copy of 'The Trader'. It's been around for over 70 years and is the principal directory of supplies which used by many market traders.

[Captain2]

Look for auctions advertised in your local paper. Most have a viewing day prior to the auction itself so that you can see if there is anything to bid on. You must however set yourself a limit per lot and don't exceed it (the more you pay, the less profit there is on selling).
I did this for three years or so for our antique business side line and finished up standing on local markets (with the stuff you get from 'job lots' that wasn't good enough for the antique business). Loved doing it even if it meant getting up at daft o'clock.

[Buenchico]

As Captain2 says, auctions are a great place to buy stock.

Some auctioneers specialise in selling bankrupt stock whereas others might have things that you're interested in amongst general household sales. (The former have the advantage of offering plenty of stuff that you might be interested in during a single sale but that also means that there will probably be other traders bidding against you. The latter have the disadvantage that you might have to spend hours there just to buy a few lots but the possible advantage of you being the only person interested in those lots).

This auctioneer, for example, is a specialist in liquidated stock:
http://www.johnpye.co.uk/all-auctions/
whereas these auction rooms (where I'm a regular visitor and occasional purchaser) mainly has house clearance items, etc but often includes some trade stocks:
http://www.thesalerooms.co.uk/General%20Auction/General%20Auction.html

[Captain2]

If you had asked me phelb, I would have told you of two auction places we used but I would never, never, ever tell you of the small backstreet auction house where there was no VAT, no Buyer's Premium, was all cash in hand and where we bought absolutely masses of things (including furniture which became a side business) and the maximum we ever paid for a lot was about £20.

Do you see why we don't tell others?

[Zacs-Master]

I'd laaarv ta tell ta me old choina but it's a secret innit. Cushty.

[MallyJ]

We make our stock ...... you don't have to buy it you can make stuff to sell.... failing that there are plenty of wholesalers out there selling huge variety of things to sell... fruit , flowers etc etc etc... what do you want to sell?

[phleb]

Captain, where do you get your stock from?

Here, i have asked now x