Fair Price for Beads & Stone Properties
21st January 2018
MiMi and I are now back in the UK, knackered, after non-stop bead buying in China. Many exciting new beads for you!
We concentrated on unusual and large semi-precious beads no one else sells. Lots of matte. Many will appear on the MrBead website during the next weeks.
See us at our first bead fair of 2018 at Harrogate on 24th-25th February. We will be selling the best of our new semi-precious beads there, just arrived in the UK. Details of our bead shows booked so far for this year: 2018 Bead Fairs.
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What’s a Fair Price for Beads?
SEMI-PRECIOUS STONE PROPERTIES
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What’s a Fair Price for Beads?
What are beads worth? On eBay, most buyers are looking for a bargain, but what’s a fair price? Machine-made bead are extremely cheap to manufacture. Especially when most are made in low-income countries too. So why do beads cost so much at retail?
The answer is labour. The most expensive part of any product is the labor that goes into it, not just the time of the factory workers but of all the other people involved.
Four or five middlemen may handle your beads between the factory and you: the manufacturer, the exporter, the importer, the wholesaler, the retailer, and two or three shippers. Each middleman has labor costs. Transportation and storage don’t come cheap.
At MrBead your beads are brought in a large Chinese city from a wholesaler who buys them from another wholesaler in the outskirts who gets them from the factory.
They then go by truck to the port where they’re packed in a container to Felixstowe in the UK. From there they’re collected by van to be resorted and repacked before mailing to you. Sounds like a lot of work, and it is!
Out of a bead merchants stock, only a few types of beads sell well, the rest gather dust taking years to recover their costs. Other beads get lost, damaged, or go out of style quickly. And often the merchant can’t restock his top sellers because the wholesalers have run out too.
Then there’s the cost of retailing. Shop rents and taxes are crippling, occurring throughout the off season and holidays. Online selling is cheaper, but a web store with out visitors is useless.
Hits cost money. Marketing and advertising is a substantial cost of your beads. That’s before the expense of getting paid. Paypay and credit cards are expensive.
Semi-Precious Stone Properties
Amethyst |
Agate |
Coral |
Garnet |
Jade |
Jasper |
Lapis Lazuli |
Moonstone |
Onyx |
Pearl |
Turquoise |
Quartz & Crystal |
Calsilica |
Rainflower Viewing Stone |
Carnelian |
Tiger Eye |
Flourite |
Hematite |
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