Fabric Prices
02-13-2011, 02:54 PM
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Today I Googled a site looking for some Moda fabrics. It went straight to Amazon and Ebay. Question: Howcan they sell fabric below retail prices and still make a profit? How much mark up is in fabric? Are there places where people can buy large lots of discontinued fabric?
02-13-2011, 04:11 PM
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There are outlots that sell discontinued fabric or older lines that are no longer sold in the quilt shops, but I have never been to one. I bought some fabric on eBay and it was very nice--cheap too. I will be looking for answers here also.
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02-13-2011, 08:51 PM
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Which items, for example, were really cheap?
Most of all the fabric on Amazon is sold by third parties, not directly from Amazon.
I saw some charm packs that didn't look incredibly cheap to me- $8-$10.
And the fabric you might have seen for $4.99 - that's for a 1/2 yard cut, hardly inexpensive. ;)
The mark-up for fabric used to be close to 100% (wholesale to retail), but I don't know if there have been recent changes to that.
Keep in mind that shipping would come out of that, as well as all the fixed overhead costs of running a shop, leaving.....well, depends on well run the shop was, right?
Most of all the fabric on Amazon is sold by third parties, not directly from Amazon.
I saw some charm packs that didn't look incredibly cheap to me- $8-$10.
And the fabric you might have seen for $4.99 - that's for a 1/2 yard cut, hardly inexpensive. ;)
The mark-up for fabric used to be close to 100% (wholesale to retail), but I don't know if there have been recent changes to that.
Keep in mind that shipping would come out of that, as well as all the fixed overhead costs of running a shop, leaving.....well, depends on well run the shop was, right?
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