With the Christmas holiday season fast approaching, retailers are clearing their shelves to make room for the latest and greatest products. Perhaps nowhere is this more true than with toys, where kids (and their parents) are being marketed to about what the “must have” items are for the current season. When the hot items […]
Holiday Season Approaching; Overstock and Returned Toys Need to Go! But Where? Read More »
The Crisis of Stuff. We are at an intersection of hyper consumption and exorbitant waste. In this current culture of consumption with a disposable mentality, we’re facing an ever-growing crisis: What do we do with all this stuff? If you’re a retailer, charity or thrift store, you know exactly what we’re talking about. Used clothing
Piece by piece, pile by pile, we will demonstrate how you can re-use excess stuff. Our mission will be to make a difference by designing beautiful products that people will love, to find new homes around the world for excess stuff and to support the work of community organizations through recycling. 10 billion pounds (4.5
The Crisis of Stuff by Steven Bethell Read More »
Looking to get better, more productive relationships with buyers? Want to get more buyers interested in your credential clothing, mixed rags or other used products? Want to increase sales overall, with more repeat business? Here are some tips that will help position you better in your process with buyers, increasing your return on investment
Tips for Managing Relationships With Buyers Read More »
Having a baler for mixed rags and credential clothing is a minimum requirement for working with used clothing buyers and brokers like Bank & Vogue. This investment can seem like an intimidating one, but identifying the means available to optimize your investment is often all it takes to expose your business to the potential value
Baler Buying Guide – Maximizing The Value Of Your Investment Read More »
When baling, storing, and shipping mixed rags and credential clothing, donated shoes can be a challenge. You can’t process shoes with fabric clothing, as balers will utterly compromise the integrity of even canvas shoes, let alone high-heels. Left without any apparent option, many charity and for-profit clothing resellers will simply throw them away. But with the right
Dealing With Donated Shoes – Capturing Cashflow Read More »
Some Bank & Vogue sellers of mixed rags and credential clothing capture up to 25% of their yearly revenue through partnership with our company. And yours can do the same. Doing so is a matter of maximizing the value recieved for credential clothing/mixed rags, and minimizing the costs required to sell them. Here’s how to do
Optimize Cashflow From Mixed Rags and Credential Clothing Read More »
In the first 3 months following the Holiday season, retailers process approximately 60% of the entire year’s store returns. Unable to sell them outside of this season, they are left with little choice but to sell their returned stock in bulk. Clothing, furniture, toys; almost every consumer product imaginable becomes available at jaw-dropping discounts to businesses
Sourcing Wholesale Store Returned Merchandise With Bank & Vogue Read More »
Your store or charity receives donations, and sorts through them to find that approximately only 20% of items are fit to sell in store. These products are put into store shelves, and rotated every 3-4 weeks if unsold. The majority of donations that do not make it to store shelves, as well as those that
Loading a shipping container is just as much an art as it is a science. For those new or unfamiliar to the task, maximizing the efficiency of available space, protecting the integrity of your goods, all while respecting container rules regulations can be extremely difficult! Fortunately, Bank & Vogue is here to help with the
Loading A Shipping Container – 3 Principles To Remember Read More »
International wholesaler of secondhand products.
Proudly present in 34 countries since 2000
