Been there, done that.
Did it with cel phones. Way too much hassle for the little money you make.
Make sure he only does cash exchange for the item. None of that "let me have it now, and I'll pay you the rest tomorrow" or you'll be sorry.
you beat me to it. i have a buddy in New York who owns a shoe import company. he specializes in high end Brazilian leather women's shoes. whenever he was clearing out the stock he would email me, and send me a list of what he had. i got them for pennies on the dollar.
selling them was the problem. everyone wanted to pay a part, and owe you for the rest. then they broke them, and never wanted to pay up in full. even if you tried to sell them by the case, the stores wanted to owe you. i just gave up on the idea.
want to make decent money? get a space, and make a restaurant that sells cheap food, exquisitely cooked. same ingredients like you find in a plato del dia, but properly seasoned, and properly cooked. the locals would buy it, and so would the foreigners. get a caribbean cook from a place like Trinidad or Jamaica, and sell things like curried chicken and mild jerk, and you would make money. scrap the idea of 375 peso platters. when the tourist season ends, you are dead in the water.