Keep in mind, there are a Mix of specialty products and Entrepreneurs out there retailing 3x retail/wholesale or so for an item...

With a nice little pinch of Value added marketing using Creative business models, it can be done without pissing off consumers...

It's all about being Good at Flying Low and Collecting the Dough in particular niche markets...

Especially the nice High end Luxury side of things... Almost recession proof if you Hit the nail on the head...

As per a few other threads... Alibaba is one of the Biggest resources that most/many ebayers use world-wide to get their wholesale goods in volume & bulk...
http://www.alibaba.com/
http://www.alibaba.com/trade/help/helpcenter
http://www.alibaba.com/sitemap.html
http://www.sowpub.com/forum/showthre...hlight=alibaba

A little bit of Swoopo news for a few interesting opinions and a little bit of Brainstorming...

swoopo...
http://www.google.com/search?q=swoop...ient=firefox-a
http://news.google.com/news?q=swoopo...=1&sa=N&tab=wn

Someone's already been Thinking on Swoopo related business ideas and possibilities...
http://beatswoopo.com/

Phil