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Need Advice from Optical and Eyewear business, wholesale business operation
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TSfirewir3
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Jan 7 2010, 05:49 PM, updated 16y ago
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Dear all Expert,
I would like to plan to open an optical and eyewear wholesaler business.The problem im new in this line.There are few doubt in my mind. I hope that some exprienced person or for those who are working in this line give me some advice or comment.
1.normally where do optical shop source from?own or does supplier or wholesaler approached?
2.how was the profit margin like?i heard that a cost for a frame was very low eg rm20 - rm30 but can sell up like to rm100++? (just roughly wanted to know)
actually my most concern is it a lot of optical shop source on their own for normal frame?not those branded eyewear like oakley or gucci.
Will greatly appreciate all comment and advise!!
Thanks
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TSfirewir3
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Jan 7 2010, 09:12 PM
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Icic..thx for the info!!
Anyone else can give me some advice on this?tq
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TSfirewir3
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Jan 7 2010, 09:40 PM
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QUOTE(dkk @ Jan 7 2010, 09:20 PM) You can get cheap RM10 sunglasses. Frame and glass included. Examine them closely. Some of these have frames similar to prescription glasses. They may not have extras like springs, etc, but all these stuff do not justify pushing the cost from RM10 to RM300-RM500. RM20 to RM30 cost for the shop sounds reasonable. There is some profit from the actual lenses too, but I suspect it's much higher on the frames. The economics of running an optical shop is like this. Unlike some other businesses that might get a hundred or more customer a day, you will only get a few customers daily. Instead of earning a few RM from each customer, you have to earn more. The only way is to earn a lot on the frames and lenses. Unfortunately, this is also a weakness. This extremely high profits is a very attractive target for a profit destroying, market disrupting company. They could aim to get high volume on low margins. There are online shops that charge very low prices on frames and glasses. Mostly they're in the US and Europe. When one opens up in Malaysia, it will cause difficulties to the present shops that rely on high margins. @dkk are you working in this line?thanks for ur comment.out of my curiousity actually i plan to to source from China and bring it back to Malaysia to be a wholesaler but the problem is i doesn't know whether the optical shop will go source themselves at China or does some wholesaler or supplier will approached them?if most optical shop will get the stock themselves there is no point i running as wholesaler when there no one buying stock from me.
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