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How recognize the worst hair vendors online?

This business is all about finding the best quality of hair at the best price. Start finding hair vendors online that will meet the demand of your ideal client. Even the search for hair wholesale vendors starts with your client’s demand. And when you know what she is looking for, you turn around and start searching online for hair vendors.

How do you avoid ending up with the worst hair vendors online? And how can you find the best online hair vendor? There are so many search results for :

  • “Hair vendors”
  • “Wholesale hair suppliers”
  • “Hair wholesalers or

and many similar searches. An so many hair vendors.

The best way is to plan your search. Do not start searching on the internet and fall in love with the first hair vendor you will find. Hair can look very tempting online, but you need to plan your search to ensure you find the hair your clients need.

Make list of the hair need of your clients

Get yourself an overview of what you learned from talking hair with your clients. like what.

  • are they looking for
  • is their struggle for hair extensions, weaves, frontals, or braids?
  • experience they had with previous vendors
  • is it they love in hair

Make an overview with all their remarks and create groups. Put similar remarks, but expressed with different words in one group. This overview will help you to narrow down the online search for hair vendors.

Use your clients keywords to search online for hair vendors

Over 80 percent of the hair sold comes from hair vendors from China. Yeah, not from Brazil or Peru as you might have been thinking for some time. But having said this, China is a large country, and some vendors are excellent, and some hair vendors are very bad.
You can search on platforms like Alibaba or AliExpress. Although you might see a good rating it good to start to engage with the supplier before even buying a hair sample hair. Engage by start talking hair and to ask questions, as many as you need to feel good.

How to recognize bad suppliers?
You will see the ‘not so good ones’, will ask you after every question:

  • “do you have order list?”
  • “may i know what kind of the hair u need”, or
  • “can I take your order now”

These vendors are only interested in selling or do not understand English very well. They will not invest in the relationship, or the trust that is required for online hair sales. Do not engage with them. They will keep on sending you messages and fill your inbox with images of their hair.

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How to engage with online hair vendors

You found a supplier that is serious enough and prefers a long term relationship above that one transaction? Start asking questions. No need to do a complete interview. Make sure you understand:

    • how they process the hair,
    • where they get the hair from and
    • how they handle complaints.

Need help finding the most relevant questions? Check our list of 40 questions for online hair vendors.

Top 40 Questions to Ask a Hair Vendor before Buying Hair Extensions

Hair samples!

When the hair wholesale company has answered all questions you asked with patience, it is time for the next step. Ask for samples or buy a sample bundle. Do not expect every hair vendor is willing to give hair for free. If you are serious in starting your business, you will also have to save some money in your budget to buy samples. You can even ruin a good potential relationship to ask for free samples. If you feel this vendor meets your clients demand, reward them with paying for the samples.

Not sure? Contact me

If you are not sure about the online hair vendor. Contact us, we know many suppliers and the experience of many hair re-sellers all over the world. Contact us and we will help you out finding the best hair supplier.