I’m pretty angry guy right now for
being taken in by a con job like wholeassistant.co.uk. I’m also disappointed that
this scam is still out there, calling itself a product and supplier sourcing
service. I’m no big-shot retailer but I’ve been around the block long enough to
know a con job when I see one. I guess a part of me was saying that this whole
thing was a dirty little trap and I should stay away from it. I went ahead
nonetheless and got conned.
So how did a guy like me get
swindled by this no-good site? Well it started with me getting frustrated with
the way my product sourcing was going. I deal in novelty items and my peak
buyer season was just around the corner. I have a pretty good set of merchandize
but I wanted to find something different. I’m used to looking through bunches
of catalogues and making a lot of phone calls but wholesaleassistant.co.uk seemed to be offering great product deals
with one “amazing” tool.
Wholesaleassistant.co.uk
said that they would show me everything I’d need to know about the product -
I’m talking RRPs, profit margins, what the competition was pricing it at and
how much the supplier was selling for. It was basically all the stuff I look
for but without the hours of hard work! Frankly, I found the offer just too
tempting. I was also tired and frustrated and I needed to get some merchandize
in for the buying season.
I had to fork over more money
than I care to admit, to look at this shoddy excuse for a sourcing service. I’m
usually obsessive about updating my supplier contact information and keeping
everything current. So, imagine how angry I was to find out that wholesaleassistant.co.uk hardly ever
gets updated! I guess that’s when my common
sense kicked in and I started checking out some of the supplier names.
Sure enough, most of these
suppliers’ contact info was right there online, for free. I could have just
Googled and got the same result. If that wasn’t bad enough, I discovered that I
could have got cheaper rates outside of wholesaleassistant.co.uk!
The more I dug, the more information I found that made it clear that I had been
conned. The site mainly deals in confiscated or lost property but how do you
even know that the stuff is legal? When you can’t even get the right contact
information of the supplier, how can you be sure he isn’t dropping fake goods
on you?
