Wholesale gift items
All items on this page are wholesale for the tourist industry
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Prices
Prices marked are suggested retail- the price I expect to get offering the item retail. Normal wholesale is keystone-or half the marked retail. Any finished product you see on my site is marked retail. In general figure you can get it for half listed price. Buying from existing inventory can save money if it stops the order from being a special order
Qualifying for wholesale prices
Being in business with plans to resell my work and or with the intent to buy in quantity is the basic loose guideline. I do not ask for proof unless I have reason to suspect someone is trying to scam me.
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These are items associated with Alaska like ivory, wolf claws native themes etc
These will be items to move in and move out in the under $20 range that can be easily re-ordered
If you seek artifacts fossils black powder items do native festivals medicine bag authentic items bone beads and such
stones crystals metaphysical items totems fantasy and such
wolf lynx claw necklaces reproductions cast claws as well as skulls etc
cast items of silver copper and brass animals natives birds as pendants and capped stones etc
how it's done
wolf teeth various custom caps retail $65
A variety of rough stones with custom caps retail $20 to $50
retail $50
All art sorted by the subject animal bird or flower if you are seeking only bird art for example
Under $50, Under $150 and over $250 If price is most important
In many ways they all look alike, and in other ways they are all unique one of a kind. Price is effected by size and quality of the claw and price of materials and amount of work done to it. I do not want to have each and every one a different price since that makes them hard to order. Note the 4 price ranges with picture. Extra large or more work then shown like opal inlays will be more and sold as one of a kinds.
Large claws small amount of work (2and 5and 7 ) w/s $12
Large claws lots of work done (1,3,4,6,8,9) w/s $15
Order # P-Acw-O-25Ns
Small wolf claw with simple cap $5 wholesale
Wolf Claws
Can offer cleaned raw medium size lynx claws like this for $3 each- $30 a dozen, or $75 a hundred. Temporary low price --usually put in a bowl for customer to pick --nice low end item.
Below--showing lynx claw sizes inquire on price as I sometimes run out of different sizes especialy huge.
(Wanna help me clean 12,000 claws?)
enamel pendants right. I am just getting into adding enamel (baked on glass) to metal work for added color. I wilt have more soon but can offer these kinds of designs at a low price like $5 each.
Left-- I can make a lot of these when I cast at one time and keep costs down, though most of these are in the $45 retail range some are closer to $35.
cast small wolf skulls, have saber cat as well, can be used as zipper pulls pendants about $25 each.
Replica claws and teeth of all kinds eagle bear lion etc often items that are not legal if real varuous caps at good prices inquire
earrings using animal claws moslty lynx porcupine and wolf claws in the $45 a set retail range
capped stone pendants of all kinds these are on amethyst. It is hard to offer exact items as each stone is different and these are cast for each stone but if you accept 'amethyst with bird' or jade with animals' I can work with that and offer the best wholesale price
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Miles at Miles of Alaska
box 363
Nenana Alaska
99760
1-907-832-5442 miles@milesofalaska.net
1 claw
12 claws
100 claws
Lynx claws
Buy this grouping of pendants $100. $20 each. Suggested retail $45. Amethyst with custom cast one of a kind caps. Copper bronze
This group of 7 pendants $120 which is $20 each. Suggested retail $55. Hand cut semi precious stones, custom cast one of a kind caps of white bronze copper brass. Mammoth 2 ducks Raven raven head Indian head
There is an issue to understand when buying least expensive items. This is the least profit for me, so requires I have the least amount of time involved in each item. Yet can be the most sought after situation. "A nice product, hand done at a cheap price, with a high mark up potential". To achieve this we have to work together a little bit.
It takes me about 15 minutes to list something for sale with a picture a description and a shop cart. I then need to know where it is and remember to remove it from the shop cart when sold. This can occupy a total of half an hour. The issue is that when I work in my shop I often average $65 an hour for my time. Thus listing an item is $30 or so of my time. If the profit margin is less then $30, I am making less, often a lot less money, than I could if I did not offer these items at all.
Two solutions. Solution 1: I put up only pictures of items. If I upload big batches at once, I might have 5 minutes time per item instead of half an hour. If customers see something they like they have to inquire, creating a 'special order' situation. Works well with retail, not so great with wholesale. However we can talk and have a beginning place for discussion. You know what I have, and sometimes if you like my work and want to trust me I can send 'that item or similar items' anything not wanted can be returned for credit. Or wait for me to create the items if item needs casting, and I include it in my regular casting cycle with other orders. Example: One customer orders summer tourist season goods in the fall, half down. By spring I have their order ready, at a 50% off normal wholesale price. This requires to things. Enough up front money, and trust.
Solution 2: I offer batches of small end items for a lower price. You take everything in that batch for a big savings compared to 'you get to pick it all out one at a time'. In this way the half hour time covers 5-10 items at once. I keep them together as a group, handled as one item, one sale. This can work because, my art is unique, and if a customer likes my style work, there is a similarity in the items offered in a batch. There is a good chance if a customer likes one item, they or a similar customer will want the item next to it as well. I can offer such items at almost half the price of picking them out individually and the lower price can be a bigger factor then the reward of exact items picked out.
I have been selling my work for 40 years. I know what of my styles sells more than anyone else. If I or we are 'incorrect' I usually work something out. I even can accept items at the end of a season that did not sell for credit on next season of different items. Because everything I make sells, and I simply move the item someplace else that has that market. There may be a small restock fee, but there is an out if a mistake is made. The lowest price of all is to customers who send me money and write "Just send me a nice batch of stone pendants with animals on them in the 'under $50 price range' "
Shop owners may have an opinion, and want total control, it's your money! For those who do not wish to trust anyone else to select items or groups of items, the price for this distrust will be to pay more. That to me is part of 'Doing business 101' If you can offer up a better solution that does not screw either of us, please let me know.
No I am not interested in importing from places providing slave labor nor will hiring an employee for low wages work. Too few people who work for low wages will understand the complexity of my materials, prices, or lifestyle. I live in a remote place, labor is high here. Kids can wash dishes here for $10 an hour. Low skilled labor is $20 an hour. Honest smart people you can trust to be sober and show up on time already have good jobs. My overhead is low because I do it all myself, with used unsafe equipment in a dirty dusty environment with no running water in the shop, no restrooms, no windows no hazmat area, no fire escape, no wheel chair ramps, no coffee machine, no lunch breaks, working hours are 5am to 10 pm. I voluntarily run my own sweat shop because-I love what I do. One reward for this price I pay is- I'm one of the best in the world at what I do. My outlook on life is, there is no short cut to success. Nothing will beat long hours, hard work, and dedication. It's difficult to teach or hire that.
This is my book, about getting dropped off in the wilderness at 22 years old having been raised on Walt Disney and deciding I wanted to be a mountain man. I walked out a year later - then built a houseboat to live on