We don’t usually restock sold out lines, but we’ve made an exception for a small number of our best selling items from October and November. All of these tribal necklaces sold out very quickly, particularly the first two pictured below. We now have significant stocks of all 4 of these necklaces available.

We are now closed for our Christmas and New Year break, and will re-open for business on Tuesday, January 12th.

Please feel free to place orders during this time, but be aware that they will not be processed or dispatched until we re-open in January. The same applies to any telephone, email, or website communications.

We’d like to wish all our customers a happy and prosperous Christmas, and we look forward to providing you with some great fashion jewellery next year.

Valentine’s Day - the busiest time of year for men buying jewellery. Pity the wives and girlfriends. It’s a painful time to be a jewellery retailer, watching so many men buy jewellery that will only be worn once. Because outside the expensive gold and diamonds, men simply cannot buy jewellery that women want to wear.

Years ago, when we sold retail, the week leading up to Valentine’s Day was when we got rid of our dullest, most boring women’s watches and necklaces - the drab grey stuff that women simply refused to buy for themselves at any time of the year. Men arrived in their droves to buy these items. No doubt there was many a fake smile on Valentine’s morning, with promises of ‘saving it for a special occasion‘, because it was ‘too good to wear every day‘. Translation: she hates it but doesn’t want to say so.

That same male inability to buy women’s jewellery extends to retailers sourcing jewellery from wholesalers. We can spot male buyers by the contents of their shopping baskets. It’s not that they buy greys and blacks (women jewellers buy a lot of these too), it’s the absence of any strong colours. Our male buyers rarely buy pink, orange, or blue jewellery. Their courage runs out after one or two red items.

So let me say this simply: Women like and want colourful jewellery. It’s what they buy when they have a choice; it’s what they love to wear; it’s what their friends are wearing. They want orange rings, bright blue necklaces, and pink everything.

A word of advice to our conservative male customers: Unless you’re selling exclusively to men, you need to be buying bright colours.

Regular customers may have noticed changes to our home page recently. These changes are only visible to customers who have already placed an order with us, and include a new section listing the best selling lines of the past week. If you can’t see this page, then either you haven’t placed an order yet, or you are viewing our website on a different PC to the one used to place your previous order.

This new section on the home page is designed to make purchasing decisions a little easier, and to highlight those items that are selling rapidly. If any of the items displayed are of interest to you (and they certainly should be, as they have already proven themselves to be strong sellers to retailers across the UK), then you should consider placing larger orders, rather than ordering only 1 or 2 of each. As these items are the strongest sellers, they are also the most likely to sell out.

Our autumn collection includes a number of tribal necklaces, necklace sets, and bracelets. These are proving to be very strong sellers, with many customers ordering them in large volumes. Most of these designs come in plain silver, though the tribal bracelets do include a small amount of colour.

We’ve already sold out of a couple of these lines and will not be restocking this side of Christmas, so customers are advised to buy early and in volume if they want to have a good collection available going into December.

We’re pleased to be able to announce that we’ve reduced the cut off point for free shipping. Effective immediately, shipping is free to UK customers ordering above £200, and Irish customers ordering above €200. These changes do not apply to customers in the Channel Islands.

For customers who place small but regular weekly orders, there is a huge saving to be made in combining orders and placing a single large order instead of 3 smaller orders.

Our new Facebook page went live today. The purpose of this page is to make it easier to keep in touch with our customers. Though we do send out stock update emails every few months to recent customers, many of these emails become lost in spam filters, or fail to arrive due to incorrect email addresses. And we don’t send out emails nearly as often as we’d like. This blog helps, but it’s a bit of a chore to remember to check it for uipdates. That problem doesn’t exist on Facebook.

When we have new stock, it will appear on our Facebook page first. If particular items are proving very popular and are in danger of selling out, we’ll mention it there first too. Changes to our website, ordering process, shipping and VAT charges, etc. All will appear on Facebook.

We’ll also be using the page to get feedback on new stock, and to generate opinions on improvements that could be made. Please don’t be shy about telling us what you think.

So if you’d like to be kept a little more up to date, become a fan of Nirvana Wholesale on Facebook.

Customers who tried to place orders on Saturday evening, 15th August, will have noticed that the site was problematic or down for much of the evening. This was due to some work being carried out on the site, which culminated in the movement of the site to a new server. All issues have now been resolved, and we are not expecting any more problems.

Yesterday we added about 40 new lines of Costume Jewellery to our catalogue. This includes a good selection of our lower priced necklaces. As our catalogue is sorted with the newest items first, simply browse through the first 8 pages of Necklaces to see them all.

We’ve also added a small selection of new Fashion Rings in bright colours that we feel you’ll like.

Due to the popularity of our heavy charm necklaces, we’re very pleased to announce that we now have a new selection available in similar styles to our recently sold out lines. A dozen new necklaces went live on our website yesterday evening, and are already proving popular.

The new lines differ slightly from their predecessors in terms of colour and design, but we feel that customers who purchased the previous items will find these to be just as popular.