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Wholesale/bulk buying

I am fed up with having to pay top money for my kids trainers, ebay sell a lot of the Nike tn trainers at half the price in the shops.

I know a lot are fake, but the ones from America do seem pretty good.

I have been e-mailing some of the sellers on ebay to try and find out things, I do know that they order 20+ from America at a time to make shipping cheaper and that you can mix and match orders because they ask you what size, colour ect, when enquiring.

The thing I want to know is where do they get them
I have spoke to other parents and can easily get an order for 20 pairs, saving us a lot of money.

Would be grateful of any information

Thanks

Jayne
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  • TaBunny
    TaBunny Posts: 1,831 Forumite
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    If you do place an order for 20 pairs watch you dont get stung by customers for the tax :-/
    :p
  • The thing I want to know is where do they get them

    You'd need to source the US wholesalers. I doubt a US seller will give you that info as they'll be losing a sale. If you don't have time to trawl US wholesale directories then you have 2 options (that I can think of)

    1. Order 20 pairs from a US seller after you've negotiated a decent bulk discount
    2. Source them from a UK wholesaler
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