Start small, scale big: how a first order should actually work.
Any quantity, from the Quick Sale floor. What a sensible first order looks like, what to ask before you send money, and how the per-piece numbers improve as you climb.
No buyer should trust a supplier he has never met on the strength of a price list. We have never expected it. The sensible order of things is the oldest one in trade: taste the water first, then drink. What follows is how that actually works with us, in numbers rather than assurances.
The floor exists so you can start genuinely small
The Quick Sale floor is stock already landed, already finished, already counted — refreshed weekly. Nothing on it is a promise about a future shipment. It is goods on pallets that you can walk up to, open, hold and count.
And the minimum is whatever you need. Not five thousand pieces, not one container. Any quantity.
Where you can walk in and collect
Today that is our Montreal warehouse. From September 2027 it will also be our own Dubai free-zone warehouse, which puts the same walk-in floor within reach of buyers across the Gulf, Africa and South Asia. Everywhere else, goods ship — and shipping changes the arithmetic, which is the honest part of this piece.
With one honest limit, and it is freight, not us
Twenty-four pieces is a perfectly real order — if you collect it yourself from the floor. Ask us to ship twenty-four pieces across an ocean and the freight will cost more than the goods, the paperwork will cost more than the freight, and you will have learned nothing about us except that we let you waste money.
So the rule is arithmetic rather than policy. Collecting in person: any quantity at all. Shipping: enough volume to carry its own freight. If you are near Montreal — or near Dubai from next September — the smallest test in this trade is available to you. If you are not, your first order should still be small, but small measured in pallets rather than in pieces.
"Any quantity if you carry it out. Enough to fill a pallet if we ship it."
What a good first order looks like
One style. One good colour range. A quantity you can sell through in weeks, not one you will still be looking at next season. Buyers who lose money on a first stocklot deal almost never lose it on price — they lose it by taking five styles of two thousand pieces each because everything looked cheap, and then discovering they have five slow sellers instead of one fast one.
Buy the thing you already know how to sell. The bargain is in the buying price, not in the novelty.
What to ask before you send anything
Ask for photographs of the actual lot, not the style. Ask for the piece count by size, not the total. Ask what the goods are — overrun, cancellation, stocklot — and what the labels will say when they arrive. Ask whether the seller owns the goods today or is quoting something he hopes to buy. That last question ends most conversations in this trade, and it should.
Then ask around. We have been at this twenty-one years, with our own people in Dhaka and our own warehouse in Montreal. That is checkable, and we would rather you checked.
On payment, plainly
New buyers pay in advance by TT. No credit, no exceptions, and we do not pretend otherwise to win an order. What we do offer is the rule we have held for years: if you have paid an advance and then cannot fund the balance, we do not keep your money. The goods are still with us, so we sell them on and return what you paid, less bank charges. Not a credit note, not an exchange. Your money.
One honest boundary on that: it covers money paid against goods still sitting in our warehouse. Once a shipment has left us and reached you, the sale is done — we cannot take goods back across a border, and we will not pretend otherwise. The same is true of a two-dozen pickup off the floor: that is cash and carry, and it is final.
That is the whole of it. A buyer who is right about his market keeps the profit. A buyer who changes his mind before shipment keeps his capital.
Then you climb, and the numbers get better
Floor pickup teaches you the goods. A pallet teaches you the paperwork. A part container teaches you the timing. A full container is where the arithmetic starts working properly — the same freight bill divided across many more pieces, which is the whole reason a program buyer pays less per piece than a trial buyer does. Nothing about that is a favour. It is the same maths we set out in the landed-cost piece, running in your direction.
Buyers who have been with us for years did not start with containers. They started with a pallet, sold it, came back, and asked for more. That is the entire path. There is no shorter one worth taking.
Fresh deals go up every week. Start with one.