Should You Buy Or Use A Hair Vendor List?
Finding a vendor is hard work, however it’s an essential part of trying to sell hair.
One of the first mistakes people make, is taking looking for a vendor before doing anything else.
While finding a vendor is hard, the rest of the process is even harder.
Imagine starting a lemonade stand on your balcony… on the 33rd floor of your apartment complex… where 10 people have the same idea already.
People don’t know where to find you, and even if they do, they don’t know why they should buy your lemonade, rather than all those of your competitors.
Mostly they’re not going to try them one by one.
So if you have made the mistake of buying your lemonade already, it might turn out that your neighbors prefer natural ice-cold lemonade, while you actually stocked lemonade syrup.
That’s why you will actually do research and learn what your target audience wants, before getting your vendor.
Another mistake people make, is that they’re looking for ‘good’ hair. Good is a subjective term, and i.e. a Lamborghini is a good sportscar, but not exactly good to pick up your children from soccer practice.
So you’d look for specific details, like build year, milage, amount of seats, maybe AC if you’re living in a hot area, etc. For hair it mainly comes down to looking in a specific price range, and finding properties like how well it bleaches, how full it is, availability of textures, or even the purity of the material.
Those properties you can measure, and compare when you test hair from multiple vendors.
It’s a process you will have to go through, and at the beginning it will feel overwhelming.
But that’s why you don’t rush in and take your time to come up with a good plan, and slowly put it into motion. It takes hard work, and will take a lot of time, and that’s an essential skill of being successful.
Simply buying a vendor list directly is kind of a shortcut you shouldn’t be taking, as going through all the hard work is basically building your foundation of your business. You can’t skip this.
Buying a vendor list, basically gives you a list with vendors with vendors which some person thought was ‘good.’ You don’t really know much about these vendors, as they rarely include important information, like which quality from a specific vendor they even tested.
Vendor lists often compare one vendor's worst quality to another's best, meaning vendors with really good hair can end up on a bad-vendor-list.
I wouldn’t be against using vendor lists, if they objectively tested, wrote down which quality of a certain vendor they tested, mentioned their testing process (not just wearing the hair, but i.e, bleaching test, comparing fullness, actual length, weight of bundles without rubber bands, extra fees, price, or even a date when they were tested).
But none really do, and basically turn into a list made by someone either trying to advertise certain vendors, or make some quick money of the people who prefer to take shortcuts.
The goal is to find a vendor who can help you achieve YOUR goals, and while you can get help on the way, no one can do the work for you.
People are still stubborn about mink hair being a real thing, people think silky and smooth hair is good quality (it’s mostly processed instead), that mink hair is a real thing, that good hair should be able to hold a curl (while most Asian girls with natural hair can barely curl their hair).
There are people think some hair can’t bleach, while they simply don’t know how to bleach hair properly. There are people who overbleach knots, cause bald spots, and blame it on the quality.
There are people leaving a bad review on a vendor, but leave out all the details which obviously show it’s their fault.
Just realize that there’s a whole lot of bad information out there, and that a whole lot of people are convinced that they’re right, even though they are wrong.
You might even hold some, but as long as you realize that, and know that there’s more left to learn, you can grow your business and grow as a person.
f you're having difficulty finding a legit vendor, you're going to have more difficulty finding a legit vendor list. Serious resellers want you to buy from them, not from their vendor directly.
So in general, they will either charge a ton of money, and run the risk of it being shared for free, decreasing their sales.... or don't sell the real one and earn some quick money.
The majority of these lists are simply made by people trying to earn quick money from you, might not have even tested the hair, or did but know way too little about hair to judge on quality.