Discount Carpet
Discount Carpet
What's the difference between an online carpet
shop and a discount carpet wholesaler? Carpet Prices, of course! Their are
other differences , however. Online carpet shops are established to extend their
carpet retail business beyond their local geographic area. Discount carpet wholesalers
are not traditional retailers, because they sell to online carpet shops. There
are many discount carpet wholesalers located in the Dalton, Georgia carpet manufacturing
hub. Some of the best discount carpet wholesalers may never be found just by
visiting because they may be 6 miles out a one-lane road and they may have an
abandoned basketball gym for a warehouse (filled to the gills with discount
carpet).
Discount carpet wholesalers typically have lower overhead expenses because
they don't have to be located on a busy thoroughfare and they don't expend valuable
resources on newspaper advertising and radio advertising. Discount carpet wholesalers
do not have fancy showrooms with leather sofas that make you feel cozy. While
they do have carpet samples, these samples are displayed for the occasional
walk-in retail customer.
Most of their sampling is done in "deck boards" which have a large
27 by 22-inch carpet sample on the front and 3" by 3" color samples
underneath. Many of these discount carpet wholesalers have carpet fibers in
their blood. Their entire family has been in carpet for 50 years. Their cousins,
nieces, and nephews all have discount carpet shops.
While most discount carpet wholesalers will sell to consumers, their primary
emphasis is to sell truckloads of carpet to storefront carpet retailers and
online carpet shops at discount prices. How do you think 200 or so carpet shops
survive within a 20 mile area with less than 100,000 people? It's really no
different from the High Point, North Carolina area where much of the furniture
is made in the U.S.
These discount carpet wholesalers survive through their web sites and phone
blitzing specials to carpet retailers across the country. When I was a Georgia
Carpet sales rep, shipped to Indiana in the 1980's, I used to hate these guys.
I worked directly for one of the largest carpet manufacturers and my retail
customers were buying carpet from these discount carpet wholesalers, cheaper,
than I could sell direct from the manufacturer. My only defense was to explain
that the carpet "probably fell of the back of the truck"- a reference
to the once notorious theft of truckloads of carpet from manufacturers during
the 1970's and 1980's.
Dalton, Georgia discount carpet wholesalers are located in the heart of the
manufacturing hub. They carry and have access to all carpet manufactured. Their
strengths, however, are in selling off shades, discontinued products, overstocks,
older goods, trial runs and other non main stream products. Recently, while
I was shopping for carpet for my newly-built office, I found a 70-ounce Stain
Master residential product at the bottom of a stack of carpet rolls in one of
these discount carpet wholesalers. It had been there a while. I asked to see
it and the wholesaler said "are you kidding? Do you know how long it would
take me to move all those rolls on top of it? Give me $75 to move all that carpet
and you can have the whole roll, if you'll help me get down to it" The
back stamp told me the carpet had been manufactured 14 years earlier but it
was a beautiful, high density trackless and would have retailed for $30 a yard.
I bought the carpet for about $2 a yard, but anyone off the street would have
only paid $4.99 a yard.
These discount carpet sellers can save you money on most any carpet style,
but the really big savings are in the irregular goods mentioned above. It is
good to visit their showroom so you can get a better idea of the quality and
savings, but you could save hundreds on a style you select in your own hometown
and use our Carpet Price Quote form to email this request to discount carpet
wholesalers. Make sure you visit our section on our Buyer Assurance Policy.
Article by Michael Hilton of carpetbuyershandbook.com - the Largest Online
Source for Unbiased Carpet Information (http://carpetbuyershandbook.com)
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