I went to your website and realized you are carrying that gorgeous line of Rouge Red fabrics. It is enough to make a red lover drool. Nobody locally has carried it. Is it as beautiful up close and personal as it is on the computer?
Originally Posted by QKO
Whether you know it or not, the quality of the help in the distributor's double and roll operation directly affects the price you pay for fabric. If the manufacturer or distributor accepts low-quality junk from the printing/finishing plants, or if they hire a bunch of crack-heads into their double and roll operation, or if they fail to provide proper training and/or quality control, it affects the price you see at the checkout counter.
For us, the bottom line is, if we get split bolts or short bolts several times from a given manufacturer, and talking with them doesn't cure the problem, we quit buying from them.
If they can't hire reliable help and train them properly for their double and roll operations, and have someone doing quality control on that operation, I don't want to deal with them, and I don't care if they're the most popular fabrics on earth.
I'm picky about quality. And I'm just as picky about stuff coming in to my store as I am picky about how stuff is cut and sent out from my store. I expect my suppliers to be the same, and if they're not, they're not going to be my suppliers for long. I've already "fired" a couple of suppliers, and I'm about to "fire" another supplier for the same reasons.