Hi you all! Am I the last person on earth to find out that ALL the professional-only products were being sold on Amazon.com for many times below wholesale prices?
Today while I was pedicuring one of my clients, I mentioned that she should be out of the Nordic Care foot creme by now if she was using it religiously as she should be, which was when she told me that she started ordering it on Amazon because she could get it for $10+ and around $2+ shipping. The wholesale price I pay is $9.90! I was flabbergasted because I had no idea you could buy professional products on Amazon (you all may already have known this, but I'm not a big shopper). No wonder my retail has been down for a while now! I researched it tonight and EVERY single one of the "professional only" products I use and retail in the salon was being sold there. Going forward this is definitely going to change what I carry & where I buy it from. Even brands I don't use were being sold on there. I was just about to order the EZ Flow Spa Elements lotion (among other things) from an online distributor because our local beauty supply does not carry that brand. The heck with that now because when I looked it up on Amazon they were selling it for the exact wholesale price of $5.95 I was about to pay! OPI's new Skyfall collection had "The Man with the Golden Gun" selling for $2.43 (!) & others were selling for $5, some higher. They had a huge selection of Gelish, CND- boatloads of Shellac including the entire UV lamp kit, tons of OPI, One Minute Manicure, Tammy Taylor, Young Nails, Cuccio, Nordic Care (& last week I just ordered an entire case directly from the company- how foolish of me). They even had Dadi Oil, but thankfully it was higher than retail (for now). Log on there to see if your favorite professional line is being carried, so YOU can save money the next time you need to order products. Shipping prices vary, but sometimes they have deals with no shipping at all. Hey, you can even do all your Christmas shopping there now while you order salon supplies! >From now on, I'm going to throughly research every professional product on Amazon first & if they are selling it, I will not carry it. I'll try to use smaller, more obscure companies & if all else fails then I will either start carrying private label products or create my own scrubs, lotions, & foot cremes to put into empty jars to use & retail. That's just my 2 cents worth & I'm not a happy camper tonight:( Jill Wright Bowling Green, Ky -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nailtech/-/UQ5kc-HM8MsJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en.
