How to Buy Wholesale Perfume Testers
Perfume testers are bottles of perfume used by department stores and boutiques as a way of marketing a fragrance. Typically, the shop will place the tester bottle on a counter where patrons can try the perfume for free. Wholesalers often buy these tester bottles and resell them at a discounted rate.
- Look on the Internet. Perform an online search by entering "wholesale perfume testers," or a similar keyword combination, into your usual search engine. From these results, try to find sellers that offer wholesale perfume testers to the public.
- Find web-based auctions. A number of retailers use Internet auctions as a way to sell their perfume testers. Although the prices may not be at wholesale, such sales will be considerably lower than the perfume's retail price listing.
- Contact perfume wholesalers in your community. Some wholesalers only sell to retail merchants who are registered to do business in their state, with a valid business license and tax identification number. Others will sell merchandise to anyone as long as they pay sales tax.
- Visit discount perfume outlets. Discount perfume stores often have a large stock of testers that the shop will sell at an extremely low price. Bargain with the shop owner and ask for a better price if you are purchasing the perfume testers in bulk.
- Realize that any perfume tester you buy will be used. Expect the perfume bottle to have marks, chips and other blemishes. In addition, most perfume testers do not have a box or any packaging.