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written by Robert Wuhrman             on 12.06. at 01:47:34 - as answer to: Re: Need Wholesale Dance Supplies for new shop by lookitactivewear>>I will be opening my Dance shop very soon and I wan wondering if anyone out there have any good cheap ideas for my inventory. Thanks>You need to contact the brands - i.e. Capezio, Leo's, Bloch's, etc. You can find their phone numbers in dance magazines. Tell them that you are opening a new dancewear business and they, hopefully, will connect you with a rep and send you catalog/price list/terms. Many of the biggest brands are EXTREMELY difficult to deal with. they act like they are foing you a huge favor, rather than the opposite. Capezio especially. The latest I heard, their minimum opening (first) order amount is $10,000!! Others are lower, but still unrealistically high. My business also manufacturers bodywear and sells retail/wholesale.....our wholesale prices are lower than many of the "other guys" and our opening order amount is very low. Our piece price is definitely lower than the "big guys". The prices they charge are, IMHO, just plain greedy. If you are interested, please email me. Okay well here's a question. If the minium order going through one of the big boys is $10k, aren't there any distributers? For example distributer A buys $50k of product from the manufacturer (capezio, freeds, etc) and then sells it in smaller chunks to neighborhood dance shops. Surely something like this exists? I'd be quite surprised if the neighborhood dance shops in my area had 10k of capezio product in inventory. So are there any distributers from whom one could buy $2k of capezio product, $1k of freed product, and so forth? Answers to this message: |
