Hello, I'm about to start my first online store and I was wondering how do you get the products? There are a few options, you can buy or even make the products by yourself and then ship them by yourself. You can work with a manufacturer or through a distributor or have a 3rd party that will just do the "drop shipping" service for you. Of course some eCommerce sites are just affiliates of bigger sites, and then they don't have to deal with anything.. besides bringing the traffic of course! So what are you doing? If anyone wants to share, that would be really great to hear !
my ecommerce site is just an affiliate walk-through. i provide products through various larger ecommerce sites like amazon and ebay.
My ecommerce site is just software downloads, so that I used ZSCART for my store, which is saas based ecommerce store.
I've have clients who sell clothing on their ecommerse sites. Some use manufacturers, others just make their own products and sell it on their stores. Good luck.
you can try Oscommerce or ZenCart anything works perfect and the best thing is you can find them for Free they are open source shopping carts.
Magento you can get extensions on Magento Connect for multi-vendors (suppliers) to populate your store catalog. Prestashop is another good ecommerce (open source) shopping cart for reselling.