If you are thinking about selling products online from home to make some extra money then you are going to need to be armed with the realities of starting a home business. There are a lot of home business packages and starter kits out there promising that you will make a lot of money in your spare time, pulling you in with the hype that anyone can do it and how easy it is. When you see these things you should automatically know that all you are buying is a dream, not a practical solution to running and maintaining a real business.
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Middle Man Problem
Some of these get rich packages will even offer you a source to buy products at wholesale price. The reality of this is that you are buying from a middle man. These companies will source products from a factory direct wholesale distributor and have them ship the products to either you or your customers for you after they mark up the price on you a little bit. This means that you are not getting the product at wholesale price and you would have to mark it up a little bit above retail to make it work.
Competing Prices Problem
All the other people who have bought one of these get...