There are several ways of looking for the drop shipping wholesalers. First of all you can find the local ones in the Yellow pages. Those who are listed in the Yellow Pages are authentic.

But the problems is that a certain locality might have a very few of them which will of course limit your options. Obviously when one has to sell online and that too through drop shipping wholesalers then why the location of the wholesaler should bother? The shipping is the responsibility of the wholesaler so that should not also worry you.

But buying from a local dealer has one potential advantage and that is you can check the quality of the product by going there by your self. Also the authenticity of the drop shipping dealer would be already checked.

Another way to look for the drop shipping wholesale dealers is to look online. There are some excellent directories online for them. If you search by the search engines then you will be bombarded with a plethora of options. It would be very hard to separate the authentic from the fake ones.

The fake wholesalers do not necessarily mean that they do not exist at all. It means that either that drop shipping company exists only virtually they will take money for you and the goods will never be delivered or alternatively the quality of the goods will be too bad.

One way to judge the authenticity of a particular drop shipping company is to compare the prices of the same item offered by different companies. You will observe that some drop shipping wholesalers are selling at whole sale prices and others are selling at "near or close" to the whole sale prices. This means that they are trying to earn more profit.

However in the cruel world of cyber crimes this method is not much reliable, which makes us come back to the whole sale directories. I am a strong advocate of these directories because they list the authentic Dropship dealers only. However they charge for using them.

The challenge in finding good dropship wholesalers also lies in their lack of advertising. Some of these dropship wholesalers are direct manufacturers and their core business is to sell to the major distribution centers.

They do not engage in much advertising and as such, few small home businesses or online auctioneers know of their existences as you probably have been dealing with middle men agents instead.

The good thing about them is that they charge only once. There is nothing like monthly or annual fee or any kind of hidden charges. Pay for once and you can benefit from them for as long as you want to.