It is not difficult to find good activewear vendors. First, look at your own needs. Are you going to be an e-commerce company or an offline store? Do you want to order online and mail it to the store? Do you want freight forwarding or go to the major clothing professional markets to get the goods for sale? In fact, whether it is online e-commerce sales or offline physical store sales, you can order goods online and purchase them on-site. It mainly depends on your actual situation.
Let’s briefly talk about the methods of online pickup and offline procurement. The first is online pickup. Online pickup is mainly through Alibaba, List.eelly, and drop-shipping. Offline pickup is to select and purchase on-site in major clothing markets.
Analysis Of Advantages And Disadvantages Of Common Online Channels
1688.com
On 1688.com, there are all kinds of clothing such as men’s clothing, women’s clothing, children’s clothing and sportswear. In terms of clothing, it can be said that everything on 1688.com can be satisfied as long as it is wanted.
Advantages: there are various types of clothes supply, tens of thousands of wholesalers supply, and there are many options for taking goods. Domestic powerful garment factories have wholesale stores on 1688. If you want to sell in large quantities, you can directly contact the garment factory above. As long as the quantity is big enough, you can place an order for production and sales
Disadvantages: as China’s largest online wholesale platform at present, 1688’s product quality varies from good to bad. For those who start a business, their mastery is relatively low. Once they get products with poor quality, their goodwill will be damaged. For those who just start selling clothes, it is undoubtedly fatal to have problems with product quality.
Website: https://www.1688.com/?spm=a2609.11209760.0.d5.44292de1Y1ZPUK
List.eelly
Unlike 1688, the list.eelly is a website specializing in clothing wholesale. Most of the goods gathered in it are from professional markets such as Guangzhou thirteen lines, Guangzhou white horse, Guangzhou red cotton, Guangzhou railway station, Hangzhou Sijiqing, Suzhou Changshu, Shenzhen Nanyou and Zhejiang.
Advantages: the special clothing wholesale website can keep pace with the new clothes in local professional markets, and the styles closely follow the market demand. With high selectivity, it is also an online source of goods provided by tens of thousands of clothing wholesale suppliers.
Disadvantages: Like the 1688 website, there are many merchants, novices take goods with many eyes, merchants brush orders, and buyers’ shows are easy to muddle through. The quality of products taken from online websites is uneven, the guarantee is low, and there are quality problems, which is too high a risk for people who are just starting to sell clothes.
Website: https://list.eelly.com/
Drop-shipping for clothing professional market stalls and studios
Here let me separately talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the professional clothing market stalls and the sales studios in the market
(1) Drop-shipping for market stalls
Advantages: Compared with the studio agent, the price of each piece of clothing will be 5-10 yuan lower than that of the studio, the purchase cost is low, and the profit margin is large.
Disadvantages: As far as the stalls I saw in the Suzhou Changshu Garment Foreign Trade Village, the stalls with good business and high sales do not pay much attention to drop shipping, because these stalls run daily. In fact, all orders are issued from a fixed source, and the workload of taking a fixed order will not be able to load. The low-volume agent has low profit, of course, it is not so enthusiastic. In this way, you place an order for the stall. It is very likely that there will be lags in order issuance, slow delivery, and feedback from customer service. Besides, some stalls with poor business and low daily sales will still pay more attention to the drop shipping. Order delivery and customer service feedback services will be better, but why the sales of this kind of stall itself is not high?Is it caused by quality or other problems? It is worth pondering.
(2) Drop-shipping for studio
Advantages: Compared with delivery at stalls or on-site delivery, the quality of delivery at the studio is more guaranteed. Why? In general, a drop shipping studio in the clothing market is created by 2-5 people or brothers, friends, couples, and young couples. This entrepreneurial group is the same as you just started selling clothes, and most values your credibility. At the start-up stage, both the quality of the clothing and the feedback services to customers are very concerned. They take the goods in the professional market and directly see the quality of the clothing. It is not good to say that some clothes are available in many stalls in the market. If the quality is not good, go to another one with good quality, which has no effect on the agency. As for the price, the market price in Changshu Foreign Trade Village is basically transparent, and each is similar. Another advantage is that they will make good pictures and texts to customers, which will help people who start a business and sell clothes.
Disadvantages: The price of delivery by the studio will be 5 yuan/piece higher than that of the stall.
Website: No, but this kind of market stall or studio is easier to find. You can find it on Zhihu, Tieba, Baidu, Sogou and other websites
After analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of online selection, I believe that everyone has a certain understanding of how to select goods online. Next, I will introduce the birthplaces of 3 large China clothing wholesale markets.
The Birthplace Of Large-Scale Well-Known China Apparel Market
Guangzhou
I won’t brag about the status of Guangzhou’s clothing market in southern China and even the whole country. Let’s briefly introduce 5 relatively large and concentrated styles of professional markets.
(1) Guangzhou Baima Clothing Commercial Center
There are also clothing buildings such as Tianma and World Trade Center in the surrounding area. It is mainly women’s clothing, as well as clothing of medium price and quality.
Address: Zhannan Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou
(2) Guangzhou Jinbao Clothing City
In the Jinbao area of Zhanxi, there are several clothing cities such as Jindu and Jinshun. There are also many shops in the underground shopping malls of several clothing buildings in the surrounding area. Women’s clothing, original luxury goods, men’s clothing, etc. can be found in Zhanxi; The grade covers low, medium and high.
Address: No. 57, Zhanxi Road, Yuexiu District
(3) Guangzhou Red Cotton Garment Center
Most of the stores are original foreign trade orders, with relatively high prices and grades.
Address: No. 184, Huanshi West Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou
(4) Guangzhou Shisanhang Garment Center
In addition to the China Building and the Red Abnormal Mansion, some street shops on the Shisanhang Road are all pick-up points. Most of them are women’s clothing, and the clothing is generally low-end.
Address: 50 meters south of the intersection of Shisanhang Road and Doulanshang Street, Liwan District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
(5) Guangzhou Shahe Garment Wholesale Center
Shahe is a professional clothing wholesale market that has developed relatively fast in Guangzhou in recent years. There are men’s clothing, women’s clothing, children’s clothing, denim, and luggage. The grade span is also very large
Address: No. 40, Lianquan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou
Of course, there are more than these 5 professional clothing markets in Guangzhou, as well as Guangzhou Railway Station, Yide Road and other places, but they are not large and not centralized, so I won’t introduce them one by one.
The hottest clothing professional market in Guangzhou is around 6-11 a.m. The people who pick up the goods set off from the north and the south in the early morning. I am a Cantonese who once opened an offline store in my hometown. I set off from my home to various markets to pick up the goods at 4 a.m. every day. Because motorcycles are forbidden in Guangzhou, I can only drag the carts to squeeze the bus and subway to get the goods.
Zhejiang
At the same time, Zhejiang Province, a coastal province, is also a famous and important birthplace of the domestic clothing wholesale market. Zhejiang’s clothing market is mainly concentrated in Hangzhou. Here is a brief introduction to 5 weighty clothing markets.
Hangzhou Sijiqing Clothing Market
The Hangzhou Sijiqing Clothing Market is one of the most influential first-level clothing wholesale and circulation markets in China. It was established as early as 1989. Speaking of Sijiqing in Hangzhou, it is not just a clothing city but a clothing city. The whole Sijiqing clothing business circle means. The more famous ones in the Sijiqing clothing business circle are: Italy-France Clothing City, Suzhou-Hangzhou First Station Women’s Clothing Market, Old Market, Jiutian International, Four Seasons Constellation, Xinhang School, Baotaihe, Zhijiang Women’s Wear, No. 1 Base, Siji Qiantang, Land International, Haoshiji Bag City, Binjiang Women’s Clothing Market, etc.
Address: No. 29-59, Hanghai Road
Jiangsu
The last one is Jiangsu Province. Changshu City, Changzhou City, and Wuxi City are the places that do better in clothing; Changzhou and Wuxi are mostly clothing manufacturers, but Changshu is better in wholesale markets; Changshu’s clothing wholesale is mainly concentrated in the area of China Merchants road. Compared with Guangzhou and Hangzhou, one advantage is that the clothing market is highly concentrated in China Merchants road. There are dozens of clothing cities such as Tianhong clothing city and Baoli square. I have to mention Changshu clothing foreign trade village. The village is small, but there are thousands of stalls, mainly for fashion brands and original brands.
Address: Along Changshu Garment Center and Changshu garment foreign trade village