What about simple consignment?

[greedisgood]

Hi everyone, just got done with the book, and I have what I think is a great idea. Please give me some feedback and poke holes in my theory for me if you have a chance. Am I just being lazy in finding the muse by using established companies?

My plan is to simply contact small businesses in my area i.e. boutiques, frame shops, hardware stores, basically any business that is only doing local business.

I could simply get orders for them, they buy the product wholesale and we drop-ship the product and split the overall profit. I could spend the money for the site and the advertising and just use their wholesale buying power and established product. I could repeat this process with as many businesses and products as I wanted. Each business may also have several products that would allow for very specific search words....