[CyberFonic]

The companies you mention have good international sales from their existing online stores. What are you offering that they cannot easily do?

Saying you want to be a distributor implies that you will have a network of resellers. For that to be attractive you would need to have substantial local inventory. As @noonespecial says, that requires making a substantial investment up front. You can't just say your are a distributor, take orders and then pass them on the the companies you mention. That is of no benefit to them.

As for Makerbot, do you have the resources to support what you plan to sell?

Take a look at Arrow, Farnell, etc and see how they operate. That's what it takes to be a distributor.

[touny]

In my case, I am hoping to develop an inexistent market in some cases (such as 3d printing). In my country we don't have so many hobbyists for example, but certainly I believe there could be many applications. The market is rather small and I doubt that these companies could develop the markets from abroad. Just a thought though....