Reading a wholesale row: the basics
Wholesale rows carry two fields that single-item boards do not: minimum order quantity and pack-out. Those two decide whether a unit price is real for you, so they come first below. After that, the usual questions — how rows are picked, how to judge one, and what the sheet cannot settle.
← Back to overviewMinimums first, always
Rows of genuine listings from Taobao, Weidian, 1688 and JD, with the order minimum and the case rate printed rather than implied. A worksheet for bulk buyers, not a shop.
- Minimums statedthe quantity required to get the headline unit price
- Pack-out recordedhow many units ship per carton
- Case rates shownwhat the price becomes at case quantity
- No checkoutyou take the row to GTbuy to buy
In bulk, a small per-unit gap becomes a large one — which is why rows are read for quantity, not for one-offs.
How wholesale rows are built
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Judging a row at quantity
Behind one product there are usually several listings quoting different unit prices at different order sizes. Read them as a set: in bulk, a penny per unit is a hundred pounds per carton.
What a wholesale row settles, and what it does not
Volume changes what a row is allowed to mean. One column is what the board can commit to at quantity; the other waits on the warehouse and the scale.
A unit price is only real when the minimum beside it is one you can actually meet. Drop the minimum and the same number becomes a rumour. And cheap stock you cannot shift is not cheap.
Built from public material for planning a case. Real pricing, pack-out and corridors come from GTbuy's pages.