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If you're selling unlocked mobile phones, brand name mobile phones, wholesale mobile phones or mobile phone watches online times have never been better with a wider range of phones to supply or a bigger market of people to cater to.

Mobile phones have become an almost indispensable part of our everyday life and many companies are offering customers a wide variety of phones with an incredible array of capabilities to better cater to peoples increasingly mobile lifestyles.

And consumers are clamoring for more and more phones with more high tech features so that now even the iPhone is too simple for the Japanese market.

So, if you're an eBay trader or online vendor how do you cater to this market to not only turn a profit but keep customers happy so that they'll come back to you when they want a new phone and bring their friends and family with them?

While marketing phones correctly and having a good customer service plan are the basics of any e-commerce business the secret, like in any good recipe, is in how you source it.

Here are some insider tips and secrets on how you can source exciting, brand new unlocked mobile phones, brand name mobile phones and mobile phone wrist watches without being cheated or loosing customers due to faulty products.

Trademark Phones

Selling popular trademarked phones online can be a positive and negative experience all rolled into one.

While it might seem that almost everybody wants an iPhone, N95 or ROKR and almost all of those people are shopping online it appears now that everybody else wants to sell a phone to them and a small, but not insubstantial portion of those people are inadvertently or inadvertently selling an empty box or a fake phone.

Short of selling wholesale mobile phones or cell phone wrist watches which are newer markets and have less vendors competing in them, the best way to ensure good levels of customer share is to make sure you only use reliable, trustworthy suppliers.

The first step towards finding a reliable supplier is to make sure their business, website or and pricing doesn't look suspect.

Once finding, what looks to be a good source of products online, be it a mobile shop in China or a wholesale company in another country, you need to ask yourself the following questions:

1) Do they give you enough contact information?

2) Is there website professionally put together, does they include their own product descriptions and product photos?

3) Do larger photos of their products look like the genuine item from the trademarked phone's website?

4) Is the price too high or too low?

5) Do I have to pay a 'sign up fee to start selling the phone?

6) Has anybody complained about them on dropshipping, e-commerce and wholesale forums or fraudwatch sites?

It's important to find phones that are in the correct price range, or 'Goldilocks' price range.

While you don't want to be paying the same for an iPhone that you would be paying in a store prices that are too cheap should be viewed suspiciously too.

Anybody offering a trademark phone, whether it is an unlocked cellphone or just a straight vanilla smart phone, should be viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism if they offer their models with prices 50% of what you'd pay for the same phone on the wholesale market.

iPhone and HiPhone, which is which?

Be wary of trying to sell rough copies and counterfeits like the HiPhone (Right) as you may find them either being held up at custom or creating a lawsuit for you.

The phones they are selling could be counterfeit, stolen, or they may just take your, or your customer's, money with no intention of sending your, or your customer's, phones.

When trying to sort out real trademarked phones from the fakes, thankfully some of that can be done online.

If the sites have product pictures, examine the product pictures side by side with one from the trademarked site. For example if you're looking at stocking an iPhone then visit the Apple store for a photo you can use to compare it with.

If any of the icons, buttons or the phone's general appearance differs from the original there's a chance that you've got a fake.

For example, when comparing the iPhone to the popular iPhone alternative the HiPhone it is easy to see that while the HiPhone resembles the iPhone closely in appearance the HiPhone has a row of icons along the bottom of the screen that are not on the iPhone and the HiPhone has a red unlock button while the iPhone's unlock button is clear.

If it checks out online it's almost imperative that you order a sample as you don't only have to check that the phone works, you've also got to check that the phone is not a fake.

The best way to do this is to take it to a licensed reseller of that trademark, for example if you're going to resell iPhones online go to the Apple outlet, or if you're selling the N95 then test it out first at a licensed Nokia dealership.

However, if this is not possible then the next step is to compare the sample to a model you know to be genuine.

Inadvertently stocking and selling a knockoff, be it a iPhone copy or a fake Nokia, can hurt more than your seller reputation as companies like Apple have become increasingly aggressive in taking legal action against those that sell fake iPods online.

Click on this link to read the OnSources blog on the insider tips and tricks on how to source competitively-priced high quality wholesale mobile phones and mobile phone wrist watches.

Rose Li is the PR Manager for OnSources.com. OnSources.com is the world’s leading online drop ship wholesaler for wholesale mobile phones, mobile phone wrist watches and other consumer electronics. Accredited by Validated Site, ScanAlert, and Verisign, and listed in all the leading B2B directories, OnSources.com is the market leading online wholesale electronics shop for eBay dropship sellers and importers worldwide. For more details visit: http://www.OnSources.com.com/