Of Wholesale Price, Recommended Retail Price & "Under-cutting". Let's Discuss :)

ChinChic

hi all, i'm fairly new to the ways of doing business and i've been wondering about the following issues:

- if your manufacturer does not impose a minimum order to get the items at wholesale price... then how to be assured that others (ie ordinary shoppers) would not be able to approach the manufacturer & get fr them directly?

- at the moment, i do not have enough resources to place large quantities. then i could not request for the manufacturer to direct retail queries exclusively to me right? You can only get that if you are the authorised dealer... correct?

- my concern is, my potential supplier who's also the manufacturer, seems quite easy going with the selling guidelines, then i may end up seeing competitors if i were to do well... how do i secure my market share then?

- how do i negotiate that he directs interested retailers/shoppers in s'pore and even the neighbouring countries to me & i help him distribute to them? how does that work?

- what's is the meaning of under-cutting? if you need to adhere to that, then it would mean you've got to sell your items to ordinary shoppers at quite a high price & must not be lower than the retailers who got the supplies from you, right?