If you are intending to venture into selling clothes, you need to find a reliable wholesaler. If you are basing the business at home and use your personal energy and finances, it will get tough. Below are the factors to consider when looking for a reliable supplier of clothing.
First, you should consider the type of clothes you intend to sell. Most wholesalers deal with a specific type of clothing. If you want to deal with children clothes, it is important for you to find a supplier who deals majorly with the same. For adult clothes, you need to determine the age and gender of your clientele. You need to find a supplier for men clothes and a different supplier for female clothes if you want to deal with both genders. The type of clothes that most of your customers like to purchase should be well known to you after the initial sale. This will increase the rate at which your clothes get bought, and the rate at which you will be ordering for new clothes. You should fully focus on clothing lines and brands which your customers are interested, and avoid adding a lot of clothes from different brands.
The physical address of the wholesale shop needs to be determined as well. Finding a wholesale shop that is not a distant away is quite advantageous to you for the sake of convenience. However, the convenience is important if you are dealing with online stores. The prices may be similar, but delivering the order may take different times depending on the supplier. Your stock should reach your stock as early as possible before the old stock is cleared so that you don’t close down as you await the stock to be delivered. This is important because you will not run out of stock while waiting for new clothes to arrive, as you will having new stock delivered on time. It is prudent if you buy clothes from one supplier because it will build a good friendship and trust between the two of you. In case you don’t have enough money to make the purchase, you can agree with your regular supplier such that they supply clothes to you on credit terms.
Lastly, the cost of the products is another important thing to be looked at. Every cloth supplier will sell their clothes depending on where they are, the type of clothes, and the purchase prices.The material used in the manufacture of the clothes should be looked at and a comparison of the prices done before you can settle on a particular supplier. If you are buying from an online store, it is good to calculate the import duties and taxes applicable before you can make an order. You may buy clothes at a cheap price, but upon reaching the port, you are asked to pay a lot of money in the name of import duty.