The Buyer’s Due Diligence Checklist: How to Vet a Wholesale Fashion Source Before Spending a Euro
Bad wholesale purchases rarely announce themselves. The lot photographs well, the price impresses, the seller responds quickly — and six weeks later the retailer is holding stock that is inauthentic, misdescribed, undeliverable, or simply not what the invoice claimed. Ask experienced fashion buyers about their worst sourcing mistakes and a pattern emerges: the failure was…
