Importers are one of the best sources of new products at wholesale or lower prices. Importers are normally product or industry specific. Importers of general merchandise are not very common. Importers normally work with large volumes and may tend to refuse low volume buyers.
Manufacturers: Another important and cheap buying source is Import export manufacturers that include farmers, craftspeople and growers.

Factory direct: By far the cheapest source to buy goods, since it does not involve any intermediaries like agents, distributors or wholesalers. Buying factory direct for a small trader is not easy since manufacturers look to selling volumes. However, since the advent of the internet, this has become an easier process, to buy any products from anywhere direct from the manufacturers.
Certain issues like fair price, product quality, supplier reliability, terms of purchase need to be sorted out before moving on to buying through the internet.

Auction sites: provides wonderful opportunities to buy products at wholesale pricing under its Wholesale manufacturers link. The page is numerous categories and sub-categories.