Timeline for Is it legal to resell products purchased from distributors?
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| Jan 24, 2023 at 21:03 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @Grapser "Does it cost money to become a distributor? How will I convince manufacturer to let me distribute/sell their product?" Whatever you and the manufacturer agree upon is what controls. It is up for negotiation. | |
| Jan 24, 2023 at 20:57 | comment | added | sharur | @Grasper That's a separate question, but usually (barring again any regulations or the like on restricted materials), you buy in bulk. In addition to ohwilleke's point, it can be better economics for a manufacturer to sell to a distributor than a consumer: Distributors tend to order in lots, which means money sooner, have less hassle with returns/problematic customers, don't have to advertise as much, and only have to deliver to one location. | |
| Jan 24, 2023 at 20:57 | vote | accept | Grasper | ||
| Jan 24, 2023 at 20:56 | comment | added | Grasper | Does it cost money to become a distributor? How will I convince manufacturer to let me distribute/sell their product? | |
| Jan 24, 2023 at 20:54 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @Grasper The reasons are economic and "political" (in the non-governmental politics sense) rather than legal. If you sell mostly to distributors and then you make a sale direct to a consumer, it looks like you are double crossing you main distributor buyers who lost the sale to the manufacturer. The distributors don't like that. | |
| Jan 24, 2023 at 20:52 | comment | added | Grasper | Why manufacturers don't want to ship to the end users but choose to license distributors? They still need to ship their products either way. | |
| Jan 24, 2023 at 20:39 | history | answered | ohwilleke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |