Does anyone have any wholesale suppliers of beads for jewellery making? I hear China can be good?
I want to find wholesalers or manufacturers that can provide a wide range of beads from acrylics, glass, crystal, pearls and finding at competive prices so I can create jewellery and also resell beads as kits in craft markets? I know many companies buy from china but I cannot find suppliers and dont know how to go about it to buy from China. Does anyone have any links or good suppliers?
Any suggestions would be a great help thanks all
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:27 pm
There are several Chinese trading marketplaces which operate in English. For instance, you could try to subscribe to Trade Alerts (free service – e.g. here: http://cdetc.com/tradealerts.php ) – enter terms to monitor (acrylic beads or glass beads or crystal beads – you got the idea) and receive alerts when matching lead from a supplier appears. By setting up free account, you’ll be able to post your own buying leads, too.
Those marketplaces show huge turnovers, in particular between Chinese suppliers and US buyers – so all import matters are well known, and people there are friendly and willing to help newbies – just spend some time and communicate with people.