Spying on competition suppliers

Just follow the delivery truck to see where it is coming from.

Haha, Caesar's idea could work. I think you may have more options than you think. By brother's friend recently got accepted on the TUF reality show and they took away his friend's cell phone. In order to get in touch with is friend, my brother found out the hotel that he was staying at and called the front desk pretending to be a producer for the show. They then put him through to his friend. I think if you start thinking along these lines you might find a solution very quickly

Even if you know the supplier that wouldn't mean you would get the same pricing.

There is a thread someone was kind enough to post here with a massive list of wholesalers. Maybe you should start going through that and see if you can find some leads that way. You might get lucky and be able to work out a deal that is ever better than your comp.

You might also be able to network a little on Linkdin and other such sites and get som leads that way.