Today, though it was in the Past (in fact it has always been like this) the Interned is stuffed with hundreds and even thousands of “Wholesale Suppliers” for your business. And each and every supplier assures you that it is a trustworthy “real” supplier. But is it really so?

Do you really want to throw away your money? No, better to put it this way: do you want to put your money in someone else’s pocket? But in fact, if you pay all these membership fees, charges and other payments, YOU DO! To my mind it is a mere waste of your money and time to pay for the lists that are simple useless to you. And the worst thing is that they know that they sell you the junk that doesn’t cost a cent, but they still do it, and that is what makes them scam!

You may ask the question: why should I pay more for your directory if I can find the similar lists for as little as $3. The answer is simple. You get exactly what you pay for! This is one of the rear rules that have no exceptions from.

Here at Dropshiparea.com we work hard to supply you with tools and methods of earning money. But all these methods are legitimate and trustworthy. The thing is that we believe in the former “American dream”: we are eager to work hard and earn our living with our own hands (read: not make a cat’s paw out of somebody).

It goes without saying that it is much easier to cheat on both you and me and get money faster, but it is not our way!

I’ll give you some examples of programs that now flock the Internet, but will hardly ever give you a chance of earning money and are more likely to make you one step closer to a business failure.

• TV packages

Usually they are called something like this: “Home Business all-in-one package.” As a rule such programs aim at selling you CDs or DVDs and nothing more. Beware of such cheating. Just remember: there are NO secret formulas that will make you rich at once, and even if there were, they won’t be sold everywhere. DEFINITELY!

• Drop shipping. Over 50k products

Out of these 50k products and the companies that sell them, 90% will be middlemen.

• Buy a list of drop ship suppliers for $0.0000001

Do you want to know how these lists are made? Ok listen, you go to google.com, type “wholesale supplier” in the search form, take first 100 entries and copy them to a word file. That’s it. Then you go somewhere on the Internet. Name the list “Wholesale Suppliers’ List” and sell it to the eager audience! It is not the right way to make money for you.

These are just a few examples of what YOU SHOULD NOT TRUST and try when starting your own home business. Later you will find dozens of new frauds, but it will only come with experience.

Today, every day people hear on the radio, TV and on the Internet about frauds. As far as the mass media is concerned people do believe these stories about people scammed and cheated by Internet fraudsters.

The thing is that these stories are only partly true. TV seldom covers the other side of the coin. It looks as if ALL the Internet sellers are cheaters etc. Thus due to such a narrow vision of the mass media, reliable and honest Internet entrepreneurs lose money. I can assure you that the number of trustworthy seller by far outweighs the number of fraudsters.

Still, another thing that you will never encounter in a magazine, newspaper or a TV show is CUSTOMERS cheating on sellers. But in reality, such incidents are not rare; nevertheless they are not paid much attention to, unfortunately.

Even though I say that honest sellers make the majority of the market, there are always exceptions. Even as a seller you remain a customer. How? Well, if you are an Internet seller, you have to find the source of products (it can be a single source of a few of them). But you have to remember one simple thing: either you find a direct contact with the manufacturer or establish relations with an authorized representative you need to be sure of the quality and legality of the provided services.

If you are somehow involved into the Internet business, you have to remember that you always remain a potential target of a fraud. In order to make sure you protection is at its best always use an AVS system when you charge your clients’ credit cards. Always confirm expensive orders before processing them. If a customer buys an expensive item from your Internet-store, contact him/her directly for the verification of the purchase. This was can help you avoid being paid by stolen credit cards. Another way to see a fraud is to look for multiple purchase of the same product by the same customer.

Remember, if you are paid with a stolen credit card, it is YOU who will have to refund the owner of the card and the criminals will get away with your products. Thus it turns out that you pay for them.

Never be afraid to contact the police or the bank that issued the card. As a rule, banks treat credit card frauds VERY seriously! Moreover, learn some things about protection applications like, for instance, EBay Safe Harbor etc.

One more thing that I would like to draw your attention to: It is YOUR money that the fraudsters aim at. Just try to do your best to prevent the money taken out of your pocket.

Let’s consider such an issue as FREE Shipping. Sooner or later each seller faces this phenomenon. It is not a phenomenon, actually, just one of the sides of the transportation and delivery “coin.” You would think (I mean that you think like a seller) that if you write “FREE shipping” on your web-page, dozens of new customers will immediately come there and buy more goods thus making you a millionaire.

Well, to some extent it is correct. Each visitor is looking to buy items at the lowest prices imaginable. If he sees the motto “FREE shipping” he thinks that the purchase will deprive him of less money. But what does the customer do next? Customers are not blind, dumb or lazy. They will most definitely check the competitors! They are likely to look for different variants and find the cheapest or the most convenient for them. What really matter is the FINAL cost of the product, but not the offer to ship the item for free.

So, let’s find out whether your price will be the lowest. If the customer doesn’t pay for shipping, then someone else has to. And who can possibly be this someone? I don’t see any other answer but the SELLER, which in this case is personified by YOU. So if there is Free shipping, you pay for it and thus you include the cost of shipping into the price of the product! What does it lead to?

Believe me, sooner of later the customer will find out that the price of your product is higher than that of your competitor and do you really think that he will buy your product only because you ship it for free? In fact he can, but in reality it turns out that customers buy the product from the place they checks the last.

And now let’s trace the sequence of his visits. If the customer sees that you deliver products to his porch absolutely free, he goes to your site first. Then he wants to check prices and goes to your competitors’ sites. He realizes that the cost is the same, but at the moment he is on the site of one of your competitors, so he buys the product from it. Not a good thing to hear, isn’t it?

So instead of wasting time and effort on some vague scheme of attracting customers, try to focus on finding good and reliable product suppliers and creating a fast and user-oriented web-page with good customer service.