here is a named provider on reddit spilling some the beans of what happens under the hood [note if you bought direct from this supplier you might think you were getting the streams 'direct' - you aren't]
Normally a supplier would have a lot of servers/racks along with card sharing and capturing devices.
As for supplying at a low price they really don't! i know as we pay them. A decent supplier that has a lot of stable hd content charge thousands of pounds to iptv services to sell their products and then you only get access to so many channels. You honestly would not like to know how much we pay our main supplier, it would make your eyes water!
Iptv sellers like myself sell at a lower price as for instance you could have 500 people buying a month sub at £10 each which equates to £5000, us sellers do not see a lot of that money.
You got to think the risk for them is huge as supplying the stream is very illegal and they would be looking at a lot of time inside if caught.
Not only that but they also have overheads with equipment etc. Don't get me wrong you can get suppliers charging a few hundred for double the channels that we pay for but they will not be half as good and will be down a lot more than any of the decent suppliers.
you have a handful of decent suppliers, the rest offer you so many channels for a couple of hundred a month, they are a total waste of time and money and you will find they are down more than they are up. We have 5 different suppliers for sky sports alone. Depends where you seen reseller costs,if it was from a seller then i can assure you the costs from suppliers are a hell of a lot more.
All iptv providers that you see on facebook and here buy the rights to stream the suppliers channels/files. You will find a lot are exactly the same channels from the same supplier. We are slightly different in the fact we put a lot of time and money into finding the most stable.... They are by far the most stable and vest quality i have ever tested. But they are also the most expensive lol not only that but we also have two other suppliers that we use as back up channels, for instance for sky sports 1 we have 5 different suppliers for just that channel alone.
People take a gamble starting off as did we, think the wife would have left me if it didnt work out lol
We were lucky in the fact on facebook etc i was quite well known for kodi builds etc and people trusted me.
But going back to iptv sellers, there are suppliers offering the world for a couple of hundred a month, they are a waste of money and will be down more than they are up.
We literally pay thousands a month to our suppliers and the way i look at it is if the costs are covered and im saving people money then the beer money is just a bonus.
my bold.
source [charge 1000's per month for certain channels sold wholesale] >
named providers [pay 1000's p/m to various sources and compile the channels into an IPTV package then mainly look for good resellers to go to forums] >
resellers [pay a few hundred a time to named suppliers for lines to sell on forums / facebook / mates] >
us asking for lines
asking for no resellers is like taking to the streets to score a line of coke and demanding a mexican cartel boss personally scrape a gram of pure white off a tonne weight of product for a couple of quid and refusing to talk to anyone not connected enough to commission a helicopter escape from max sec prison