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Wholesale Jewelry Vendors: 6 Things to Check, and the Numbers for 1 Vendor Across 5 Materials

Searching for wholesale jewelry vendors returns lists of names and very little you can compare. This page sets out the 6 things a vendor should be able to show on its own site before you write to it, then shows them for AdornTrade as of 14 September 2026: 1,160 published listings across 925 sterling silver, moissanite on silver, stainless steel, copper and freshwater pearl, the 1, 3 and 8 unit prices printed on every listing, a material record on every item, and stock reconciled against the source every night.

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Published listings
1,160 across 5 material families on 14 September 2026: 293 stainless steel, 252 sterling silver, 210 moissanite on 925 silver, 205 copper, 200 freshwater pearl and stone
Variants and stock
3,655 variants, 3,609 in stock, 46 showing 0 because the source ran out. Every listing, 1,160 of 1,160, had at least 1 variant in stock
Price per piece at 1 unit, whole catalogue
$0.14 to $137.38. Family medians: copper $1.31, stainless steel $4.17, freshwater pearl $4.77, sterling silver $11.83, moissanite on silver $17.13
Wholesale price steps
1, 3 and 8 units, printed on every listing. The 3 unit price is 91.7 to 96.2 percent of the 1 unit price, the 8 unit price 78.9 to 85.7 percent. 3,655 of 3,655 variants carry both. No account tier, no login
Material on file, per item
925 sterling silver on 252 of 252 silver listings and on all 210 moissanite settings. Stainless steel on 293 of 293, no grade published. Copper on 205 of 205. Freshwater pearl or pearl on 194 of the 200 natural listings, the other 6 agate, crystal, turquoise and jade
Ring size runs
Sterling silver 48 of 49 ring listings carry a size option, 34 distinct values from US 3.5 to US 10 plus adjustable. Moissanite 42 of 42, 39 values from US 5 to US 9 with millimetre equivalents. Stainless steel 13 of 23, US 5 to 10
Minimum order quantity
None
Ships from
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. No overseas warehouse
Handling and transit
Dispatch in 3 to 7 business days, then 7 to 15 business days on the economy lines
Import duty
Shipping lines marked duty prepaid at checkout. On 14 September 2026, for a 200 g parcel, all 3 US lines, the UK economy line and both German lines quoted were duty prepaid
Claims
14 days from delivery
Not offered
Dropshipping, engraving, private label

1,160 published listings across 5 families, stock checked against the source nightly.

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A wholesale jewelry vendor is easy to find and hard to evaluate. Directory pages list long runs of names, most vendor sites ask you to register before showing a price, and the material description on a listing is usually a single word with nothing behind it. The result is that a buyer compares vendors on how the website looks, which is the 1 thing that says nothing about whether the reorder will arrive at the price that was planned. There is a shorter way. Every serious vendor can show 6 things without being asked: the minimum order as a number, the price at each quantity step on the public listing, the material of each item and where that description came from, whether the item is in stock today and how that is kept current, where the parcel ships from and who pays the import duty, and what the vendor does not do. A vendor that shows all 6 can be compared on facts. The rest of this page walks through the 6 checks, and under each 1 gives the AdornTrade figures as they stood in the catalogue on 14 September 2026, family by family, so that the comparison can be made against us as well as anyone else.

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  1. 01

    The catalogue is reconciled against its source every night at 01:00. On each of the 4 nights from 10 to 13 September 2026 the pass targeted 1,166 listings and reconciled 1,162; the 4 that failed to fetch were left untouched rather than withdrawn on a single failure. It made 433, 406, 394 and 393 stock adjustments on those nights and recalculated prices on 1,403, 860, 1,073 and 3 variants. On 10 September it withdrew 3 listings because the source had withdrawn them.

  2. 02

    On 14 September 2026, 3,609 of 3,655 variants were in stock and 46 showed 0 stock because the source had run out. The 0 is published on the listing rather than left showing as available.

  3. 03

    Every 1 of the 3,655 variants carries a 3 unit and an 8 unit wholesale price on the public listing, beside the 1 unit price: the 3 unit price sits at 91.7 to 96.2 percent of the 1 unit price and the 8 unit price at 78.9 to 85.7 percent, computed from the live prices.

  4. 04

    The 925 label appears on a listing only where the supplier record for that specific item states 925 or S925. Items whose source does not state it are not published as silver at all. That rule produced 252 of 252 silver listings and 210 of 210 moissanite settings with a 925 record on file. It is a source record, not an assay, and the page says so.

  5. 05

    Sizes are published as options, not described in prose: 48 of the 49 sterling silver ring listings carry a size option with 34 distinct values, and all 42 moissanite ring listings carry 1 with 39 values, most of them paired with the inside circumference in millimetres.

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Every card shows the 1 unit price and the 3 and 8 unit wholesale prices. Add a destination at checkout to see which carrier lines are duty prepaid for your parcel.

Ship-from, duty and the lines quoted for a 200 g parcel on 14 September 2026.

Shipping information

Where the parcel comes from

Orders are prepared in Guangzhou, in Guangdong province, China, in 3 to 7 business days and then travel 7 to 15 business days on the economy lines. There is no US or EU warehouse. A distributor holding stock in your own country will beat that on speed. The trade is factory-level pricing, 5 material families in 1 parcel, and a price list that is on the page rather than sent after a call.

What a 200 g parcel cost on 14 September 2026

To the United States the checkout returned 3 duty-prepaid lines: $6.98 at 10 to 15 days, $7.18 at 5 to 7 days and $8.56 at 8 to 15 business days. To the United Kingdom the economy line quoted $5.11 at 7 to 15 days, duty prepaid. To Germany the economy line quoted $9.81 at 7 to 15 days and a faster line $14.32 at 6 to 10 business days, both duty prepaid. Rates move with parcel weight and carrier pricing, so the live quote for your actual basket is the 1 that applies.

What duty prepaid means at this checkout

A line marked duty prepaid carries the import duty inside the shipping amount you approve, so nothing is collected from you or your customer on delivery and the checkout total is the landed cost. It is a property of the carrier line, shown as a flag next to the rate at checkout, not a sentence added to a landing page. Where a line lacks that flag, the page does not paper over it.

After delivery

Claims are accepted within 14 days of delivery, as set out in the published policy, and are settled against the price printed on the order.

6 things a wholesale jewelry vendor should be able to show, and our figures for each.

Store information

Check 1. The minimum, as a number

A vendor that says contact us for minimums has a minimum it does not want to print. Ask for the number and how it is applied: per order, per design, or per variant. AdornTrade sets no minimum order quantity, store-wide or per listing. The order unit is 1 piece and it appears in the specification table of every listing as a term of sale. The 3 and 8 unit prices sit on the same listing, so quantity pricing is a fact of the page rather than something unlocked by an account tier.

Check 2. Prices on the public listing, at each quantity step

The test is whether you can build a margin calculation from the vendor site alone, before registering. That needs the price at each quantity break, in a stated currency, on the product page. On AdornTrade every 1 of the 1,160 listings shows the 1 unit, 3 unit and 8 unit prices in US dollars, with the 1 unit price running from $0.14 to $137.38 across the catalogue. The 3 unit step is 91.7 to 96.2 percent of the 1 unit price and the 8 unit step 78.9 to 85.7 percent, on all 3,655 variants.

Check 3. The material of each item, and where that word came from

A material label is only as good as its origin. Ask a vendor whether the label on a given item is copied from a supplier record for that item, inferred from the look of it, or applied to a whole category at once. AdornTrade records a material per item. Silver is labelled 925 only where the supplier record for that specific item states 925 or S925, which gives 252 of 252 silver listings and 210 of 210 moissanite settings a 925 record on file. Stainless steel is labelled stainless steel on 293 of 293 and no grade is published on any of them, because we hold no mill documentation and a source title is not documentation. Copper is labelled copper on 205 of 205. In the natural range 194 of 200 are freshwater pearl or pearl and the remaining 6 are agate, crystal, turquoise and jade. None of these labels is a test result, and no test result is claimed.

Check 4. Stock that is maintained, not declared

Ready to ship is a claim any vendor can type. The question is what happens when the factory runs out. On AdornTrade the catalogue is reconciled against its source every night at 01:00: a listing withdrawn at source is withdrawn here, a variant out of stock at source is set to 0 here, and a source price change is recalculated into all 3 price steps. On 14 September 2026, 3,609 of 3,655 variants were in stock and every 1 of the 1,160 listings had at least 1 variant available.

Check 5. Ship-from and duty, stated before checkout

2 vendors with the same unit price can land at very different totals at the door if 1 of them ships duty unpaid. Ask where the parcel originates and whether the quoted line includes duty. AdornTrade ships from Guangzhou, China, and marks each carrier line at checkout as duty prepaid or not. On 14 September 2026 the 200 g quotes to the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany were all on duty-prepaid lines, at $6.98 to $8.56, $5.11 and $9.81 to $14.32 respectively.

Check 6. What the vendor does not do

The last check is the 1 most vendor pages skip. A vendor that offers everything, from 1 piece to private label to fulfilment of your retail orders, is describing a business that does not exist under 1 roof. AdornTrade does not offer dropshipping, engraving or private label. Orders ship to your own address as published, in the packaging they come in, without added branding.

Depth where it matters, family by family

Stainless steel is the deepest family at 293 listings and 1,440 variants: 83 earrings from $0.86, 55 necklaces from $0.19, 45 bracelets from $1.43, 39 bangles from $1.55, 35 sets from $1.48 and 23 rings from $0.95, with 289 of the 293 under $10 at 1 unit. Sterling silver has 252 listings and 551 variants: 113 necklaces from $5.08, 60 earrings from $3.07, 49 rings from $4.07 and 26 bracelets from $3.74, with 93 under $10 and 137 between $10 and $20. Moissanite on 925 silver has 210 listings and 1,042 variants: 96 earrings from $6.15, 56 necklaces from $12.59, 42 rings from $7.35 and 15 bracelets from $9.73. Copper has 205 listings, all under $5, led by 114 rings from $0.72. The natural range has 200 listings, 104 of them earrings from $0.83.

5 families, 1 basket, 1 quote

The 5 families share a basket and a single shipping quote, so a $1.31 copper ring, a $4.17 steel necklace, an $11.83 silver pendant and a $17.13 moissanite pair can travel in the same parcel. Quantity pricing applies per product, so each listing keeps its own 1, 3 or 8 unit price regardless of what else is in the order.

Jewelry vendors for small business: what changes when the order is under $200

Nothing on the price: the 1-unit price is the same for a $30 order and a $3,000 order, and the 3-unit and 8-unit steps apply per listing, not per basket. What changes is the parcel: a small order rides the same duty-paid economy line as a large one, and for a 200 g parcel that was $6.98 to the United States and $8.86 to $13.44 across the EU on the dates given above, so freight is a larger share of a small order. There is no minimum order value, and a first order of a single piece is processed the same way as any other.

Moissanite jewelry vendors: the two checks that matter on that shelf

First, the setting: all 210 moissanite listings here sit on a 925 sterling silver base per their source record, and none on steel. Second, the stone on the variant you order: 88 of the 210 listings also carry a lower-priced high-carbon-stone or cubic zirconia variant, and the variant name is where that is stated. Carat is in the variant name on 96 listings; where a cut is recorded, 167 of 183 are round. No grading card is supplied. Median prices are $14.86 for earrings, $19.99 necklaces, $19.52 rings, $18.80 bracelets.

Vendors in the USA versus a vendor shipping duty prepaid from China

A US-based vendor ships domestically and there is no import step. A vendor shipping from China puts the import step somewhere, and where it goes is the whole comparison: on this catalogue the three US lines for a 200 g parcel were all duty prepaid on 14 September 2026, $6.98 to $8.56, 5 to 15 days, and no bill follows the parcel. The declared value ceiling on that treatment is $300 per order, above which the order is split. There is no US warehouse and no same-day dispatch; handling is 3 to 7 business days.

Check 7. The vendor's own list of what it has not tested

A vendor that publishes its untested claims in one place is easier to audit than one that publishes none. Ours: no purity assay, no hallmark certificate, no nickel-free test, no lead and cadmium test, no skin-contact file, no plating thickness, no tarnish or wear test, no steel grade. Because none is held, none is claimed on any of the 1,159 listings. A buyer who needs a file orders a single piece and tests it; the page on untested claims sets the list out in full.

What the material record says, and what it does not.

Enquiry notes

What travels with the order, and what each record shows

Four things exist and can be checked. The customs declaration travels with the parcel and is written line by line: product description, material, tariff heading, quantity and China as the country of origin; sterling silver goes under heading 7113.11. The listing carries the per-item supplier record that states the material, and the order confirmation email repeats the material and the unit price of every line you bought. Any listing can be ordered as a single piece at its listed price and sent for testing before a reorder. A claim window of 14 days after delivery applies to every order. No commercial invoice, packing list or certificate of origin is produced, and no assay report is held; the sentence about that is one line below, not the whole story.

What the material label is, and what it is not

Every label on this site is a record: the material stated by the supplier for that specific item, carried through to the listing without being upgraded. It is not an assay and not a test. Wear behaviour, corrosion, plating and skin response are test results, we hold no test report for these items, and so no listing in any of the 5 families carries a claim of that kind. A buyer whose market requires such documentation should ask any vendor, ourselves included, for the document itself.

Why no steel grade appears on any listing

Grade figures are common in source titles across this trade and they arrive from listing templates, not from mill paperwork. We hold no mill documentation for any of the 293 stainless steel listings, so no grade is published on any of them, including on listings whose source text states 1. The label reads stainless steel and that is the extent of the claim. A vendor that prints a grade should be able to show where it came from.

How moissanite is filed

Every 1 of the 210 moissanite listings is a stone set on 925 sterling silver, and the metal is cleared through the same 925 record rule as the plain silver range before the item is filed under moissanite. Stone dimensions appear as listing options where the source stated them and are absent where it did not.

What the natural range actually holds

The natural stone family is, in practice, a pearl catalogue: 130 listings record freshwater pearl and 64 record pearl, 194 of the 200. The other 6 are agate, crystal, turquoise and jade. The family is named for what the category tree calls it, and this note exists so that a stone buyer is not sent to a pearl shelf by a heading. No grading of pearl surface, lustre or origin is claimed.

What this catalogue does not do

Not offered: dropshipping, engraving, private label. If your business depends on any of the 3, this is not the right vendor and it is better to know that before you write. What is offered is a published price at 1, 3 and 8 units on every listing, a material record per item, stock reconciled nightly and duty-prepaid lines to the destinations quoted on this page.

Ask about an assortment across materials

Product enquiry

Tell us which families and categories you stock and roughly what quantities you are working towards. Availability and pricing are those shown on the listing at the time of the order.

Not offered: dropshipping, engraving, private label.

Questions about this catalogue

How do I tell a real wholesale jewelry vendor from a reseller with a website?
Ask for 6 things and see how many are already on the site: the minimum as a number, the price at each quantity step on the public listing, the material per item with its origin, a stock figure that is maintained, the ship-from location with duty handling, and a plain list of what is not offered. A vendor that shows all 6 can be compared on facts; this page shows all 6 for AdornTrade.
What is the minimum order with AdornTrade?
No minimum order quantity is set, store-wide or per listing. The order unit is 1 piece and appears as a term of sale in every listing's specification table. The 3 unit and 8 unit wholesale prices are printed on the same listing as the 1 unit price.
What do wholesale jewelry pieces cost per piece here?
From $0.14 to $137.38 per piece at 1 unit across 1,160 listings. By family the medians are copper $1.31, stainless steel $4.17, freshwater pearl $4.77, sterling silver $11.83 and moissanite on 925 silver $17.13. The 3 unit price is 91.7 to 96.2 percent of the 1 unit price and the 8 unit price is 78.9 to 85.7 percent, on all 3,655 variants.
Which materials do you carry, and how is each labelled?
5 families. Sterling silver, 252 listings, all with a 925 record from the supplier for that item. Moissanite, 210 listings, all set on 925 silver under the same rule. Stainless steel, 293 listings, labelled stainless steel with no grade published. Copper, 205 listings. Freshwater pearl and stone, 200 listings, of which 194 are pearl. Each label is a source record, not a test result.
Is the stock shown on a listing actually available?
The catalogue is reconciled against its source every night at 01:00, so the figure on a listing has been checked within the last 24 hours. On 14 September 2026, 3,609 of 3,655 variants were in stock and 46 showed 0 because the source had run out. Between 10 and 13 September the nightly pass made between 393 and 433 stock adjustments a night.
Where do orders ship from, and who pays the import duty?
Orders ship from Guangzhou, China, after 3 to 7 business days of handling. Carrier lines are marked duty prepaid or not at checkout. On 14 September 2026 a 200 g parcel to the United States quoted $6.98, $7.18 or $8.56 on 3 duty-prepaid lines, the United Kingdom $5.11 duty prepaid and Germany $9.81 or $14.32 duty prepaid. On a duty-prepaid line the checkout total is the landed cost.
Do you carry ring sizes, or only adjustable rings?
Both, published as options. 48 of the 49 sterling silver ring listings carry a size option, 34 distinct values from US 3.5 to US 10 plus adjustable. All 42 moissanite ring listings carry sizes, 39 values from US 5 to US 9 with millimetre equivalents. 13 of the 23 stainless steel rings run US 5 to 10; copper rings are mostly adjustable.
Do you offer dropshipping, private label or engraving?
No, none of the 3. Orders ship to your own address as published, without added branding, and there is no per-order fulfilment to your customers.
Do I need a business licence, an EIN, a VAT number or a resale certificate to order?
No document upload exists on this site and no account application precedes the prices. What happens is one step: as a wholesale platform we verify every new buyer once, by email, before the first order is processed; reply to that email and the payment link follows. From the second order on, online payment is immediate. The full description is on the page about ordering without a trade account.
Do you ship to the EU with duty paid, and where does that stop?
Yes, on the economy line to all 27 EU countries, plus the UK, Switzerland and Norway: the duty sits inside the freight figure at checkout and nothing is collected at the door. The line is quoted per destination, not as one European rate; for a 200 g parcel on 10 September 2026 it ran from $8.86 to Poland to $13.44 to Malta. The declared value ceiling for that treatment is $165 per parcel; larger orders are split into parcels under the ceiling rather than refused. The page on EU delivery with duty paid at checkout sets out the twelve main destinations one by one.