# Finding wholesalers online.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-wholesalers-online/209137>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 23, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-wholesalers-online/209137 "2003-10-23T15:54:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-wholesalers-online/209137/1 "2003-10-23T15:54:06Z")

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I’m looking to find wholesalers of pc and video games online. All I find are either retailers masquerading as wholesalers or services that tell me who the wholesalers are. Why do wholesalers make themselves so hard to find? I understand they don’t want to be inundated with requests from retail purchasers but I’m looking to buy actual wholesale with a tax id and I can’t find them very easily. I can’t stomach paying someone to give me a link to a damn wholesale source. Anyone know where I can find them?

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-wholesalers-online/209137/2 "2003-10-23T19:30:16Z")

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No clue, sorry, but I’ll bump this from Page 2.

Are you opening a store, or what?

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-wholesalers-online/209137/3 "2003-10-23T19:57:48Z")

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I’ve been wondering the same thing about DVD wholesalers. (Posted a GQ a couple weeks ago and got zero replies.)

I can’t find any legitimate outfit on the web that wants to sell DVDs wholesale, besides eBay people hawking “lots” of crappy B-movie schlock.

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**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-wholesalers-online/209137/4 "2003-10-24T13:00:35Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \*  
> \*\*No clue, sorry, but I’ll bump this from Page 2.
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> Are you opening a store, or what? \*\*

Well I’ve got a tax id and was curious to know what the wholesale price on a pc/console game was these days. I can understand why a wholesaler wouldn’t want to be a sponsor link from google but to be so obscure as to require a third service to show people where you are is just weird. I feel like I’m trying to find an afterhours casino in Manhattan.