Q&A: How do you start an online business selling items that are outside the US without buying them first?

Question by LaPalma: How do you start an online business selling items that are outside the US without buying them first?
i see a lot of online business based in the US selling goods from overseas. I cant imagine that these people actually buy tons of stock and hope to sell it..? im just wondering how this works.

Best answer:

Answer by Ed Fox
So you honestly think that when someone places an order with a US company for imported goods, the goods magically appear in a matter of hours for them to ship to their customer? Of course they keep stocks. That is what warehouses are for. When a company refuses your order saying the item is out of stock, that means they have temporarily run out of stock and are waiting for more

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