Ask five wooden gift factories for a minimum order quantity and you will get five different answers — 500 pieces, 1,000, sometimes 3,000 for a custom shape. Ask why, and the honest ones will tell you it has nothing to do with the wood. It is about setup.
A factory that decorates by printing has to make a plate or a screen for your artwork. That plate costs money and takes time whether you order 100 pieces or 10,000, so the factory spreads the cost over a minimum run. The bigger the setup cost, the bigger the minimum has to be before the job is worth taking.
The same logic applies to tooling. A new box shape needs a new jig. If the jig has to be bought in, the factory needs volume to justify it.
We decorate by laser engraving. There is no plate to make, so there is no setup fee at any quantity — that is the single reason our minimum can be as low as it is. We also cut our own jigs in-house, so a new shape costs us tooling time rather than tooling fees.
Ten pieces per style, and you can mix styles freely inside one order. Ten ring boxes, ten bow ties and ten cufflink boxes is a perfectly normal first order here.
It is not about buying less. It is about testing before you commit. Put three designs on your shelf at ten pieces each, see which one sells, then reorder the winner in volume. That is a far cheaper way to find out than guessing at 500 pieces and storing the other two for a year.
Buyers who work this way tend to place small, frequent orders at first and much larger ones later. We would rather be the supplier you test with than the one you gamble on.
A low MOQ does not make small orders as cheap per piece as large ones. Our price bands are set by the total pieces in your order, not per style — so mixing designs moves you up the table exactly the same as buying more of one. Ten pieces will always cost more per unit than five hundred. What a low minimum buys you is the option to find out cheaply, not a discount.
If you want the real numbers, every price band is published on the product pages. No login, no “contact us for pricing”.
DAP, DDP, EXW and the surprise invoice at the border. What our published prices include, and what you still pay.
Everyone claims to be a factory. Four checks that separate the ones who make it from the ones who buy it and mark it up.
Veneer over MDF and stained lighter timber are both sold as walnut. Three checks you can do on a sample in under a minute.
Ask us directly — we answer specifics rather than sending a brochure. Delivered prices, freight included, on every product page. Minimum 10 pieces per style.
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