Hi everyone,

For all those of you who are onselling - how did you get in contact with a mafacturer? Can you just call around trying to find somebody to sell to you wholesale so you can onsell it?? I would like to try and sell stuff on ebay from a wholesaler, i see people doing it, and i often wonder how they got the contacts.

I have an invention, well less of an invetion and more of a design, its something i saw overseas, and luckily have one so i can show people what i'm talking about. I checked out IP Australia and the design does not seem to be registered, so i'm going to try and register it as my first thing, and then work on getting an Australian Prototype made up (i'm lucky my mum does silver jewellery making, like melting blocks of silver down and makig stuff), so i might get her to make one out of silver (normally they are made out of very cheap metal), but it might be cheaper to get her to make an expernsive one then try and get a mould for a cheap one to be made..

From there i'm a little stuck about actually finding somebody to manafacture it and then how do i market it & distribute it??

I'm just slowly working on the idea when i have a chance, reading some info about new inventions.

My other idea was i bought this great baby product from America off eBay, haven't seen them in Australia. I was thinking of contacting them and trying to distribute it to baby stores here... Although with shipping and everybody taking a cut, i don't know if there is much money in all the effort?

Good luck with everyones ideas!

Yael