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Are Salehoo’s Suppliers Legitimate?

Although it's a well know wholesaler directory, there are still many who ask if Salehoo's (this fairly short Salehoo review explains what it is) suppliers really are as reliable as the site claims they are – and with good reason, as there are many scam wholesalers and drop shippers online.  With that in mind, I'm going to write a short overview of Salehoo and explain how they select and certify suppliers for their database.

What is Salehoo?

Salehoo is not a wholesaler or drop shipper itself – it's a directory of certified suppliers.  There are about 8,000 of them, and more than two million products, in a searchable database.  Membership costs $67 per year and that includes both directory and forum access.

How Does Salehoo Certify Suppliers?

Unlike Worldwide Brands, which has a policy of visiting new suppliers before listing them – and even placing test orders, Salehoo claim to 'screen' suppliers.  In reality this is similar – but less in depth.  Usually they call the supplier and ask them a list of questions about their products and business.

Certified and 'screened' suppliers are much better than any that have not been researched at all though – so the wholesalers and drop shippers in Salehoo are much safer to buy from than most other sources that you may find online.

What’s The Best Way to Find Wholesalers Online?

It can be tricky trying to find reliable and legitimate wholesalers and dropshippers online, that are able to sell at low enough prices to make a profit but can also guarantee reliability.  There are a few directories, including Salehoo, Worldwide Brands (read my full Worldwide Brands review here) and Doba, that offer access to verified suppliers – and there are other sites that act as a sort of open list of products offered at (near) wholesale prices like DH Gate and Ali Express.

These are all good options, but in my opinion the safest and most reliable is to join a directory like Worldwide Brands or Salehoo and find wholesalers that way.

The main advantages of this method are:

1. It's easy to find suppliers – both the directories mentioned above have large searchable databases – you can search by product keyword, brand name, supplier name, category, etc.

2. All of the suppliers have been checked and are guaranteed to be reliable and legitimate.

3. Both directories have huge product lists – Worldwide Brands lists over 15 million products and Salehoo about 1.6 million – both from about 8,000 wholesalers and dropshippers.

4. They are not expensive to join – Worldwide Brands is about $299 for lifetime membership and Salehoo is $67 per year.

These are, in my opinion, the best ways to find reliable wholesalers and dropshippers online in 2017.