Weaver Leather Wholesale Letter

[JLSleather]

1 minute ago, Anubis78 said:

I will definitely look into them.  How are their prices? 

$8.10 for "A-grade" leather - very nice stuff.

 

[MADMAX22]

@Sonydaze Like I was saying its a different mentality now a days. When a customer calls you and ask questions about whatever it is your selling them vs hitting the add to cart on the website do you charge them more?

 

[Sonydaze]

28 minutes ago, MADMAX22 said:

@Sonydaze Like I was saying its a different mentality now a days. When a customer calls you and ask questions about whatever it is your selling them vs hitting the add to cart on the website do you charge them more?

 

I charge them the same unless there is quantity involved.  Clients that purchase quantity reduce my expense of gaining that sales volume... I share the saving.  Weaver is doing that,  I buy more at once and get a better deal from them.   If my business too often involved long conversations to make an small sale, I would have take that into consideration in my pricing and or my terms.  If I had to raise my prices to maintain a reasonable profit while carrying the costs of less efficient clients, then the more efficient clients in reality would be stuck subsidizing them unless I could come up with a policy that defined them and offered prices accordingly.  

Because I'm in Canada, I have to phone in my orders to Weaver as their website is not yet set up for export sales.  Because my orders are repetitious, I don't have questions and read off a list with correct stock numbers/quantities, so it only takes me a few minutes to spend $3000 - $5000. I buy a lot of my hardware in case lots.  This is efficient business for Weaver and I expect to pay less than someone ordering a couple of hundred dollars of small quantity items.  

If someone is actually in business, not just a hobby for profit, the $1200 per year isn't that large of a hurdle.  Worst to worst find someone in your area and buy together to create the volume.

[MADMAX22]

Like I said its the modern way of things. Noone is going to lose that 5% of growth a quarter, its gonna come out of the customers wallets somehow. I understand giving someone who buys a ton of stuff a price break but that is not what this is. They are maintaining the same price just fining the guys who dont buy enough to justify there cutoff point. Think of the person that only orders say $600 of rivets every year, knows exactly what they want, calls with the order and is done in 2 minutes, everything goes in one box to get shipped out. How would that justify the extra expense?

Sure the 1200 dollars a year may or may not be easily achievable and the extra cost is an easy way to get rid of those that dont meet that minimum or to get that extra percentage required to maintain positive growth. 

Do you have a brick and mortar store? Just seems that the way of dealing with customers would only be conducive to modern online sales.  May be totally wrong, my parents only had there store front for 15 years (I only worked there for about 8). The wholesalers they bought from half of them would stop in the store or go to lunch to talk over the orders for the month. Nothing special, they traveled to all the shops in the area. Ofcourse that was before the internet really took over, nothing like that happens anymore.