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Old 07-30-23, 09:57 AM
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Can you help me find such suppliers or share your guesses? I am looking for goods without a guarantee, but small wholesale is possible at a low price. The product is not OEM. It's probably a warehouse. I know a person who imports components from the USA in this way, pays taxes, and this is still profitable. How can it work?
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In most of the US, you need a sales or tax form to buy in bulk. There are ways around that. Work in a bike shop and can get stuff with a heavy discount. The other way is attended swap meets and get stuff cheap. I don't know how the law are in your country but call around and you could be surprise. BTW, we are behind you folks. God bless you all.
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Originally Posted by toyM
Can you help me find such suppliers or share your guesses? I am looking for goods without a guarantee, but small wholesale is possible at a low price. The product is not OEM. It's probably a warehouse. I know a person who imports components from the USA in this way, pays taxes, and this is still profitable. How can it work?
It's possible that there are already national distribution networks in Ukraine with the major component suppliers. Typically that means that the distributors are the only "legal" sources in the country. That doesn't mean that somebody couldn't bring stuff in from a "grey channel" in another country. How things actually work in reality in Ukraine is mostly something you'll have to figure out.
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You will probably get better prices in Europe, esp the big German etailers like bike24, etc.
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Originally Posted by toyM
Can you help me find such suppliers or share your guesses? I am looking for goods without a guarantee, but small wholesale is possible at a low price. The product is not OEM. It's probably a warehouse. I know a person who imports components from the USA in this way, pays taxes, and this is still profitable. How can it work?
Some small manufacturers used to be a source of OEM parts i.e. non-retail packaged, or excess stock complete bikes to strip, but I suspect the last couple of years have seen that dry up - even larger manufacturers were having parts shortages. Maybe it's better now that new bike sales have dropped again.
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Have you tried Aliexpress? I notice a lot of the buyers there are from all over the world (unlike Ebay, where most of the customers tend to be in the US or Europe) . They probably have ways to ship stuff to Ukraine.
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