FINDING AND BUYING WHOLESALE CLOTHING

I frequently get emails and comments from people who struggle to discover fantastic wholesale womens clothing because I’m an ecommerce specialist and business coach who mostly works with young and developing firms in the fashion and lifestyle arena.

For three key reasons, they struggle to find wholesale clothing:

contacting the wholesaler and obtaining a response

purchasing samples and being dissatisfied with the product’s quality international sizes that don’t correspond to US or UK sizes

I know they’re saying the truth since I’ve personally gone through all of the aforementioned. And even while you can sign up for a ton of wholesale directories, that doesn’t necessarily indicate you’ve hit it big. Do your research before choosing a wholesale clothing provider because consumers can have a variety of experiences even working with the same vendor.

Use your own judgment, and don’t forget to make tiny test purchases from sellers whose reliability you’re not sure.

Let’s address some of the queries I encounter regarding online and offline wholesale clothing purchases.

How To Find Wholesalers Using Forums and Facebook Groups

Since most questions have previously been discussed, I prefer to start with the search feature when using forums to identify wholesalers online.

By using the search feature, you can locate queries that contain a particular term or phrase, and this will bring up any threads that use that word or phrase.

I then like reading the comments. Here, you can find folks offering useful advice.

Expert Advice: If you find a ton of wholesale suppliers and brokers lurking on forums, don’t be shocked. Sometimes it’s clear who they are, but more often than not, it’s not, and they want it that way.

It’s probably from an agent if you come across a comment that sounds and reads somewhat like a press release or an advertisement.

If you’re unsure, ask away, especially if the comment or topic is new.

Be forewarned, however, that this type of information mining can be tedious and time-consuming, especially when you take into account any research you may wish to conduct on the companies you locate. However, I like to search for the wholesaler’s name while looking through any results for words like “review,” “complaint,” “avoid,” and “scam.”

Here are a few e-commerce discussion boards you should visit:

Ask Quora, Ecommerce Fuel, Digital Point, Reddit Ecommerce Forum, Shopify Forum

But this is where things become complicated, so use your judgement.

Some wholesalers may deceptively write negative reviews of their rivals in an effort to steal their potential clients. Therefore, you need use some common sense to balance what you read and perhaps check several sources.