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All articles tagged with Sourcing.
Most factory websites say "flexible MOQ" and stop there. We checked six of them so a buyer with a 6-piece or 60-piece order knows what to ask for, and we put every one of our own published terms in one table so there is nothing to ask.
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Most Chinese mirror factories quote 100-500 pieces per model as a floor. We quote 1 piece on catalogue models — this explains why that is possible and where it stops.
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A quotation that only shows a unit price is hiding four other numbers that will decide your landed cost.
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Tint comes from the glass, not from a film. That single fact decides how you should order it and what can go wrong on a reorder.
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Venetian mirrors are assemblies, not single panels. That changes what you specify and how breakage is handled.
Read Article →Most first orders go wrong on things nobody asked about. These twelve questions surface them before money moves.
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The order of operations is fixed by physics, and it constrains sizes, lead time and what you can change late.
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Black edges are not dirt and they do not clean off. They are the coating failing, and the cause is almost always moisture reaching the edge.
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Standard mirror glass has a faint green cast. Most of the time nobody notices. Here is where it starts to matter.
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Search "antique mirror" and half the results are furniture auctions. In sourcing it means a finish — and it needs a written specification.
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Mirrors are heavy, bulky and fragile, which makes the container the real unit of purchase. Here is how to build one that lands at a sensible cost per unit.
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