Cutting Cost Buying Whole Sale

Hey you all, if you're like me, always looking for the next best super deal on craft and art supplies, than you better start buying wholesale.

Okay, in order to buy wholesale, you gotta first get a business license, but if you do lots of work and sell on etsy, locally, or any where else, than trust me it pays off.

I've been buying supplies from my local Ben Franklin, and a few other craft and bead supply stores, and Oh My God!, they just upped their price over 100%. How do I know this? Well as of January of this year (2009), BFC upped there Jessy James Bead line from $4.99 to $7up. Wow! That's way to high of a jump, especially in such a short amount of time. Even the other shops have upped their prices, about 20% in the last few months. Which trust me in this little town of Hilo, is to much of a hike, especially when the economy is not that good. Lit alone that the items that they marked up is the same items from the day before, and the next day it just morphed over night. Come on now, that's in sane.

Any ways, I decide to really start to shop on line, at places that really give whole sale price breaks, as well as the items are already really greatly priced to begin with. One of my faves is The Colorado Bead Company, dam, check it out, especially the Sale category.

What blows me is that, do they really think customers are stupid, especially artist that shop almost every day. I know that nothing can really be done, especially if you need that item right now. But please, don't they know they'll lose business that way. More and more people are trusting the Internet, and ordering, doing business and selling where the money is good. And if they're on a budget, and need to keep cost down, they'll find some thing else to use or just do with out. Especially if it saves $3.00 bucks on something that wholesale costs only $2.50. Wow! What do you think?

So I did my research, checked out Jessy James Dress Up Beads site, they have the item listed @ $2.50 with a minimum order of 6 pkg. Do the math, it still comes out hell of a lot cheaper, I get more, and that's with free shipping on a listed purchase. Can't beat that. They got my business. Not to mention, etsy has some really cool supplies as well, plus shipping or none at all. So think about it, be savvy and save money, make a profit, and get all that you want and need.

By doing this we l can keep doing what we do, keep our cost down, and keep our prices reasonable for our customers. This keeps sales up, and us happy. Lit alone able to stay in business with out breaking the bank.

  Pk