Plastikhaar US Distributors?

and not have to pay astronomical amounts to make the shipping somewhat in the realm of reasonable... hmmmmm *brightens at the idea*

~Jenn~

Well...that doesn't sound impossible. Apart from the $$, the biggest pain would be the orders and shipping. That's the part I'm not willing to do. But, if someone who already has a business set up was willing to do the orders/shipping part...hint hint hint...I might be interested in the finance part.

But only if we could agree that girls from the hair talk and quinns boards get a special discount.

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Discount, ABSOLUTELY!

Do you mean Kristin selling plastikhaar? I was thinking that the girl has her plate quite full, though if she is up for it.. Also, isn't she moving to like, New Zealand or some such?

I would be willing to do it if she isn't interested. I have a home office, I love going to the post office (really!) and I am a web designer.

I think this might be doable. I can invest 200.00 or so.

I'll email Sara when I get up tomorrow and see what she thinks. Then I'd want to get some of each and more of certain colours.

I am in SE Michigan. I do freelance web design, also doula work and Im a midwifery student.

So a WAHM but I am taking a break from doula work and only have 1 freelance web design gig, besides studying and getting webpages together, I have the time.

We recently hired a part time nanny to come into the house so I can work, during the day, so I am guranteed atleast 4 hours a day of getting orders fulfilled and shipped out.

Can you send me an email, mine is: rozilla@rozilla.com? So far, this looks like a splendid opportunity. Building a commerce website will be no problem, hopefully the women on this board will take some photos of their plastikhaar extensions so we can have some visuals besides just the colour itself.

I need to get to bed as its late late here.

Well, $200 is the minimum amount for the largest bulk discount, iirc. Sara posted it once, on the front page of the shop, but then it updated and I can't recall what it was. It's something like 10 or 15% off any order above 300CHF, and 5% off an order of 150CHF- though I only saw the numbers once, so that's probably not an exact remembrance. But yah, big discount opportunities. One advantage is the grouping of hair colors- not only on the natural end, but also that we all seem to either be brunettes or platinum blondes (funny that, huh?) Even me, with the bright colors, I have a black base. So someone who stocked a little bit of the most popular colors, and a whole ton of the dark browns and light blondes, would still cover most of the demand without having to stock the entire catalog of colors.

One way to assess demand would be a poll; a girl named AJ did this a while back when she was reselling plastic made by a tiny factory-shop in Spain to people all over the world. People placed their votes on a poll here, with no obligation to buy: http://www.livejournal.com/users/plastic_hair/3549.htm l#cutid1
And then she went and bought approximately that, and sold it to whoever would pay for it, whether they were the order-er or not; that made sure that she would have the right amounts of the right colors, while still being able to sell the plastic to other people if order-ers dropped out. Would be a good idea for whoever decided to do the PH thing.

-Rae

Jenny - I'm totally with you!  I'd pay to have my hair pretipped.  I want to use the synthetic, but I just don't have the skils (or patience) to do it.  What would  be cool is if someone could get one of those "pre-tipping" machines that MB uses to do it.  I would be in hair heaven then! 

Well I think it sounds great and like rae as long as you stock the blonds and the dark browns (mahaghoni anyone?) then the crazy colors aren't as pressing.

I think however that to make it economically feasible you'd have to charge more than sara.  And there are lots of things that would still have to come from sara direct: wefts, hairpieces, custom blends.

Jenny as for the pretipping.  There's prbably something wrong with me.  It suits my minor OCD or something but I love pretipping.  I'm often busy at work so I can't make promises about speed but...  what do we think a fair price for pretipping is and what would people want there hair tipped with?

An ounce is how much hair?  I've never used human (i know WAWA is synthetic) so I don't so much think in terms of weight as 'packages.'

But if 4 oz is one package, which I think is roughly correct, then I can't really imagine ever paying anyone $160 for pretipping that's insane. 

what kind of 'glue' does MB (that's the original shrinkies guy right?) use for perma plugs?

I guess great minds think alike- I emailed Sara this morning to ask her about this.  I am a teacher , but I also have a day spa ( masssage and aromatherapy, ect) business that I run by appointment- I have long been thinking of adding hair extension services to my menu.......

 

I would really want to have an inventory available so clients could get hair on the spot.

Oh, and just to throw this out there, I don't know if I would want to stock other stuff PH makes like hairpieces, etc...that's more a specialty item. I think we'd do best to stick with what we use all the time - the colors we decide upon, the different textures, and we MUST carry some of the more popular funky colors cuz that's what makes PH so rad and fun.