Buying And Selling Amber
The best way to sell amber, either retail or wholesale, is to put it in front of your customer. If people can see it, touch it and check its quality, they are most likely to buy it.
Buyers are just like you. They want to know with whom they are dealing and they want to see the product that they are buying. That includes retail buyers as well as wholesale buyers.
And if they are buying jewelry, they want to try it on and look at it in a mirror.
If you have not bought amber from us before, you are surely wondering whether or not it is safe to do so. But if we were face to face and we were showing you a case of amber and silver jewelry you would be engaged in a different thought process. You would be looking at the jewelry and wondering which pieces you like best.
That is the way it is.
More than two thirds of the people who use the internet to find a product buy it offline. They buy locally.
eBay is really a big search engine. It is used to check prices. People who buy on eBay will buy more from you if they find that you are in their area.
Would you spend a lot of money on jewelry online? Would you not prefer to buy something that you can see and try on in front of a mirror?
You can take advantage of this and have a very lucrative business. It can be full time or part time.
You need a brief case and a starting inventory of amber and silver jewelry. The more you have the better, but you can start with very little and grow. You can get that here Turnkey Jewelry Business
You can visit jewelry and gift shops, find home party networks and show them your products or have people run their own home parties.
Use eBay and craigslist to find customers that you can sell offline. See craigslist
You can become a major dealer in amber and silver jewelry and sell many thousands of dollars per month.
Let us show you an example.
The pictures below show how an amber manufacturer who exports a few million dollars per year maintains contacts with his customer base in Warsaw. Most of them order from him by phone, but he knows he has to go out to visit the people to show them new products and just show them that they are important. They are his regular base that provide a steady income.
The man visits shops with a suitcase filled with amber. He sells between half and three quarters of it each day he goes to Warsaw.
He calls it his complete Amber and Silver Jewelry business in a bag. It is set up to provide full service quickly and easily.
This bag contains about 37,000 Euro wholesale value in Amber and Silver Jewelry. That is a retail value of well over $125,000. You can start with a lot less, but if you work at it, you can build your inventory to this level and more. The more you have, the more you sell.
Note that the amber is sold from plastic refrigerator containers. Such containers and plastic zip bags are standard in the wholesale industry.
Kasia Swiatek, owner of the 3 Cats Gallery, with a plastic food container of jewelry. The container is a more effective selling tool than either a printed catalog or picture on a web site.
Picking through the "catalog". What is interesting here is that Kasia Swiatek is a factory representative for this manufacturer. Her 3 Cats Gallery is one of his major export points. As knowledgeable as she is of his products, she still picks through all his latest offerings to see what she thinks will be best accepted by her retail and wholesale clients.
The more you put on a customers counter, the more you sell. Each of the containers is loaded with something different. When presented with high quality products this way, it becomes for the customer not a matter of should they buy but what should they buy.
You don't have to have this much amber in your business in a bag, but it shows you that you only need some plastic containers with good amber to have a successful amber and silver business.
You can sell either retail or wholesale this way. Just get it in front of your customers at a home party, at an outdoor market, at a gift or jewelry shop or any other likely place. When people see it, they will buy.
Here is a link to a good starting inventory that will get you off on the right foot. Turnkey Jewelry Business
The people at the 3 Cats Gallery will help you with your amber business. They are amber factory representatives and retailers. They also act as buying agents for those who want to have someone to represent them in Poland to buy amber. Contact them at Contact Us Here
