Why Do Some Shoe Manufacturers Charge More For Sample Shoes?

The samples were a test run for cooperation with shoe manufacturers.
When you find a shoe manufacturer but don’t know if the product made will meet your expectations, this is the time we need samples to determine if we need to work with that shoe manufacturer.

But before that, there are a few issues you need to think through, and this is something you need to understand clearly in the early communication.
1. Make sure the price of the bulk order is within your budget.
2、Confirm the production efficiency of the manufacturer and confirm the delivery time.
3、Understand what the manufacturer is good at. This will ensure that your budget is well spent.

Now let’s go back to the sample fee, why is the sample fee much higher?
In China, factories make profits by selling more than they earn. In other words, a factory cannot make a profit by making a separate pair of shoes for someone; instead, making a separate pair of shoes is a burden to the manufacturer.

Then the sample fee is a threshold for the shoe manufacturer. If the sample fee is a big pressure for the customer, then the customer is likely to be unable to meet the manufacturer’s production threshold in terms of MOQ, unit price, etc.

For the customer, the sample fee is actually a way to understand the manufacturer’s manufacturing capability. As we mentioned above, the sample fee is a threshold set by the manufacturer, so the standard given by different manufacturers is probably different.

For QIYAO, the sample is the basis of cooperation, we will make the sample perfect, a sample may be polished many times back and forth, the cost of such is far beyond its price, but it is worth it, which leaves us many valuable customer resources for long-term cooperation. At the same time, the samples are also the cornerstone of the subsequent cooperation, we will follow the final version of the samples to mass production manufacturing products to ensure the quality of the products.

Sample shoes are very important for both manufacturers and customers, and everything works for the subsequent long-term cooperation.

QIYAO is a Chinese manufacturer of shoes with over 25 years of experience in designing and manufacturing women’s shoes. We offer a complete range of corporate services, so even if you don’t know shoes, we can offer some suggestions for your design and guarantee the quality without compromising the design concept.