First you get your business license, your resale tax exemption certificate, your business bank account, and all that good stuff. No legitimate wholesaler, with goods worth selling, is going to deal with you. Be sure to have your lawyer take a quick look at the wholesale contract, which will outline minimum and maximum quantities, freight arrangements, returns, payment terms, and so on.
Prior to contacting any wholesaler, you will have already decided what you want to sell and have determined that wholesaler deals in such goods.
Otherwise, I suppose you can go for the cheap Chinese "wholesale" trash that a million other sellers are trying to flog on eBay, mostly the same junk sold for in dollar stores for the same or less.
I'm trying to be pedantic or discouraging. I'm trying to tell you that commerce is not as simple as, "Oh, I'll get some wholesaler to sell me some stuff and then I'll list it on eBay for a big profit."
You set up your own business, and you can succeed in that business. But it takes time and committment and some money upfront. It takes homework, and legwork, and gruntwork.
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