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Wholesale Beads
Wholesale
beads is very often a misused term in the jewellery making
and bead business. A more appropriate term to use would be discount
beads. Unless you are buying direct from the manufacture or distributor
then it is very unlikely that you will receive a true wholesale
beads at a true wholesale price. Indeed to do so would require
buying in such huge volumes and negotiating import duty and freight
charges.
As the bead and jewellery making business has grown over the
years, newcomers have taken on an accepted dated catalogue format
giving prices for single beads, multiple beads and wholesale
beads. Often what really happens is that the price for a single
bead in over inflated to encourage the consumer to buy in larger
volume and call this a wholesale beads purchase by reducing the
price.
 It
is important to note however that this is not the case with all
companies or beads. If a single bead is on sale a what seems
to be a high price and there is no wholesale beads price or the
price does not offer the saving you would have hoped for, it
is very likely that the beads manufacture is from a country where
either materials used are expensive or there are higher labour
cost. . For example it would be impossible to sell beads made
in America for the same low price as those made in China. And
in the end the consumer must make the decision as to what is
most important quality or cost.
In its truest sense the term wholesale beads should really only
refer to business-to-business transactions. In reality there
are in fact very few if any UK bead importers who truly operate
in this way. More likely is the fact that anyone who can meet
the wholesale requirements (whether that be a minimum order or
even just certain volumes of particular stock lines) can purchase
wholesale beads. New bead companies that try to operate outside
this standard accepted norm often end up conforming to the industry
accepted practise, as this is what the consumer understands.
This is not to say that the consumer is not getting value for
money buying wholesale beads in this country. Operating a bead
business is a time consuming and expensive business. To offer
a completive range in terms of unique attractive products a bead
company has to deal with many different companies in many different
countries. Often beads will only be sold under a fixed quota
for minimum yearly spend. When bead manufactures impose these
restrictions on the bead company it dramatically influences thespend
they have available to select interesting and unique products.
In conclusion, although the term wholesale beads is often misused
in this country, all in all the consumer does well from the wealth
of beads on offer and can readily buy beads at cheaper prices
by buying in volume from UK suppliers rather trying the negotiate
the mine field of international trade and import red tape.
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