nstarleather

Looks like they’ve got plenty of options. Yes 1st class is probably a reasonable cost but it can depend where in Canada for services like UPS.

Probably because shipping will add considerably from USA…

Have some lots of Calf Suede CF Stead Repello and other tannages for sale. $3 per foot. Negotiable on 10 or more sides:

Hi Folks got a nice lot of Horween Shell. Mostly smaller shells 1.2-1.6 in size. Asking $75 per foot.

This is a batch of a few hundred feet 4-5oz Horween Visage/Látigo. Labeled grey/tan but appears more olive on the surface than grey. Can offer a better price for the entire lot (roughly 400 feet). Thanks for looking! Grey Visage 1.webp

The other thing they don't get is that leather cost doesn't drop very dramatically once you get above a certain level. The difference between ordering 2000 feet vs 5000 or even 10,000 is usually a low single digit percentage. All the items I make that get a quantity discount are under $5 wholesale.

Yeah my question for them was “you want me to work harder for less money?”...we do volume discounts only on small items that we can knock out quickly: drawstring pouches, mystery braid bracelets,etc.

It depends on the product, simple pouches or bracelets, we can handle a number like 50K, but for handbags or wallets you'd be hard pressed to find a US company able to do that many in a reasonable amount of time. There are factories in countries like India or Pakistan who can do those numbers.

A few comments about the Volume of sales: 1. Know your limitations as far as volume goes. I once had a major retailer ask me if I could do a line for them, but they were talking 50,000 handbags . Even though we do a sizable volume- there's just no way to scale up like that. If we even had tried we'd have had to abandon all our old wholesale accounts....and if they canceled in a year or two, where would be be? 2. Another thing to realize with volume is that "economy of scale" doesn't always apply with leather work- For example if a customer wants 500 pouches all in the same color, I can find a batch of scrap or a few hides that I've gotten a good deal on and sell for one price. But, if a customer asked me to do 10,000 all the same color/same leather, we'd have to go about buying hides and the price per piece would be substantially more. It's entirely possible that 500 pouches would be substantially less per pouch than 10,000.... Just my 2 cents after doing this for a while...