How To Buy (Or Sell) The Xbox 360 For Half Off


If you are an avid video gamer, then you know how popular the Microsoft Xbox has become. Especially with the release of great games like Halo. But maybe you can't afford to spend several hundred dollars on a new gaming console. Or, maybe you want to work from home and start a home-based business and you are interested in selling electronics. How do you get started selling electronics from home, either online or in a retail setting?

Finding a Wholesale Xbox
The answer is finding a wholesale Xbox and a wholesale supplier that specializes in electronics. These companies buy these products in bulk from the manufacturer and then sell them to you for much less than retail. You can then purchase them for personal use, sell them online, or sell them from your home.

Drop Shippers
If you want to sell the Microsoft Xbox online either through eBay or from your own website, you may want to find a wholesale supplier that offers drop shipping services. A dropshipper is a wholesaler that will ship the product straight from their warehouse to your end customer. Typically, the way wholesale suppliers work is that you purchase products from them, they ship the products to you, then you ship them to your customers. A drop ship supplier takes one step out of the process, simplifying and streamlining the entire process for you. You simply make a sale, collect the payment, send the order information and your payment to your wholesale drop shipper, and they send the product straight to your customer.

For example, let's say you find a wholesale supplier that offers drop shipments of electronics and video game consoles. They agree to sell you the Microsoft Xbox for $220.00. You list the Xbox on eBay with a starting price of $199. At the end of the auction, let's say the Xbox sells for $500. You collect $500 from the winning bidder and send your wholesale supplier $220.00 plus the winners address. They ship the Xbox straight to your customer and you keep $280.00! It's that simple! Not bad for a couple minutes of work.

Creating Xbox Bundles
What you will find is that the wholesale suppliers that offer the Xbox, will usually have Xbox games and accessories available as well. So if you are selling online, you can sell a bundle package with even more profit potential. You may want to bundle some popular games like Halo, or Guitar Hero with the Xbox when you list it. These bundles offer even more profit potential because you will score a profit on each item in the bundle! In fact, one recent bundle spotted online was an Xbox with 10 games, a couple of controllers, some headsets, a camera, and a guitar selling for $900. The same wholesale Xbox bundle might only set you back half that amount with a potential profit of several hundred dollars.

Finding Xbox Wholesalers
Finding wholesalers that sell the Xbox and other electronics is not difficult to do. You can search online or use our links at the top and bottom of the page. We prefer some of the sites that charge a small membership fee. These sites will often have more support services versus just buying a long list of wholesale suppliers. In fact, the membership sites will often have a tech support email address, an up-to-date listing of wholesalers and drop shippers, and a lively forum. The forums alone are often worth the small fee alone! In the forum, you can chat with other people who are making a living working from home selling online and on eBay. They can provide advice on which products do particularly well and which items to avoid. Another helpful piece of advice from these wholesale membership sites is that they will often warn you of scams. Online scams are very prevalent so you need to know how to spot them so you can avoid being ripped-off. So the small price you pay for admission to these sites is an inexpensive startup business cost that you will easily recover in the first few sales you make online.