Originally Posted by
Onebyone
I am able to go to a fabric distributor warehouse and I see what a bolt of name brand quilt shop quality is priced for to the shop owner I don't mine seeing the same fabric at the local shop marked up twice the price, that's fair but to see it marked up almost triple the price I won't buy it even though I can. Batiks are always higher in price then regular cotton fabric and good batiks are worth a higher price.
Are you talking about Marshalls, by any chance? Remember they sell older closeout lines and are able to buy them for very little because the manufacturer is basically dumping them. The newer lines the LQS carry would cost much more, wholesale.
What galls me is to see those $12-$14 prices on the bolts at JOANNS! And their designer fabrics and batiks are that much...