Comments on: Las Vegas trade show season 2/08

By: vicki

vicki — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:37:23 +0000

I agree with Bethany. Last fall the buyers were ordering for Spring and definitely wanted the January ship date. But so far, I am hearing from the stores exactly what she said. Very few are in a hurry to get their merchandise and are delaying the shipments & payment.

At the January show in Atlanta, I wrote orders almost entirely for Spring/Summer. Most wanted to wait until April to even think about ordering for Fall.

Vicki

By: Vesta

Vesta — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:37:19 +0000

Printsource?? I thought that was in NY. Where was it? Wah!

By: dosfashionistas

dosfashionistas — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:27:13 +0000

I was interested to note that the off-price show takes place at the same time as MAGIC. If I ever get big enough on eBay, I will be hitting that show. It’s good to know I could be going to other shows at the same time.

From what I am seeing on the bulk auctions on eBay, there is a good bit of left over merchandise that jobbers, etc are trying to get rid of. I have made some buys this year that I would never have found a year ago. Fortunately, while my sales in December were way low, January was better and February is starting out better yet. I know I am speaking from a retail standpoint, while most of your readers are doing wholesale…but how is everyone else doing?

By: bethany

bethany — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:59:05 +0000

Great post! I was surprised by your comments on shipping. I am shipping this week and have been calling stores to get credit cards and many of them are complaining that all the merchandise is coming at the same time and a few even pushed their orders a week or two! Maybe it is different with children’s clothing, or maybe the weather is still bad across the USA, but so far, nobody seemes too hurried to get their merchandise. I also offered two shipping dates for my Spring 2008 line: 1/15-2/1 and 2/15-3/1 and nobody wanted the goods in January, so I dropped that shipping date.

However, I agree that stores are buying much closer to season. Nobody even wanted to see my Fall stuff, let alone write it. That is why I have decided to do four smaller collections instead of two larger ones: so I always have a collection for the buyers to preview.