Our latest collection of Body Jewellery is now available. Added to the few remaining lines from our previous range, we now have a total of 24 unique designs, starting at £2.46. There are plenty of wholesale companies out there selling body jewellery, but the quality tends to be weak, and the possible markup low.

Though we rarely suggest retail prices, as it will vary depending on the market, we anticipate these items selling for £10-£15, depending on the number of stones. As usual, each item comes with a 316L Surgical Steel Bar.

Stocks of CZ Rings and heavy Sterling Silver Bracelets are now back up to decent levels.

Our large silver bracelets have always proven popular and we had been almost out of stock for a number of weeks. As usual, each bracelet is listed showing its dimensions and weight in grams. With the recent increases in the price of silver, it’s very important that you check the actual weight of items before purchase. A good photographer can easily give the impression that a light weight piece of jewellery is bigger, and heftier than it really is.

About 40 new lines of CZ (cubic zirconia) rings are now available. Unlike Costume Jewellery, popular lines of silver do not go out of fashion, but we still like to mix it up a little with new designs.

We’re expecting our latest range of body jewellery to be available within the next few days, so watch this space.

It’s never easy to know what to buy. The public are fickle creatures at best, who want one thing one day, and something else the next. What was popular three or four months ago, is old fashioned today.

So how do you decide which items to order, and which have passed their sell by date? Our shelf life for Fashion and Costume Jewellery is not that long. We tend to order just enough of each line to last about four months, and many of the more popular lines sell out within two months, so you’re unlikely to find last years fashions on our site.

But that doesn’t help you decide what is right for your customers today. Necklaces that sell well in Edinburgh may not sell so well in Cardiff or London. And what sells in Ireland… well, let’s just say that the Irish are in a class all their own when it comes to fashion jewellery.

You could buy one of each item. But then you might find yourself left with many single, unsold items. You could use your experience to choose what you think will sell, and buy heavily in just those lines. But then you might be wrong, and be left with dozens of similar items that your local customers do not want.

To help you decide, we’ve put together a new Popular Items Page. This page is updated many times a day, and shows you which items fellow retailers across the UK are buying. The page lists the last 60 items purchased in reverse order, and in doing so allows you to draw upon the experience of jewellery retailers across the country when you make your decision (jewellery, accessory, and gift shop owners, party planners, market traders, eBay sellers and jewellery websites).

Should you buy lots of cheap items for a pound or two, or invest in some of the more expensive sterling silver bracelets and rings? By keeping an eye on this page, daily or weekly, you should gain a broader insight into what’s selling up and down the land, and make these sorts of questions easier to answer.

We’d appreciate any feedback you might have on this new page. Does it help you when deciding what to order? Could we extend it in any way?

Click here for the Popular Jewellery Items Page

If you’ve been selling jewellery for any length of time, you will have noticed increases in silver prices across the board. This increase will have affected any jewellery with a sterling silver component: rings, pendants, chains, as well as bracelets. Changing suppliers or finding new wholesalers or importers will make little difference. Unlike Costume Jewellery, silver has a fixed price on world markets, so bargains are next to impossible to find.

Silver prices have increased 106% in the past two and a half years, and more significantly, a whopping 33% since mid December. The driving force behind these increases is not an upsurge in silver jewellery sales, but rather the alternate uses for silver such as in electrical conductors, photographic film and disinfectants. The emerging markets of China, India, Russia and Eastern Europe are key players in these industries, which show no signs of slowing down.

What does this mean for Sterling Silver Jewellery?

Unfortunately, it means that prices are rising, and that they will continue to rise. Manufacturers are paying more for the silver they use, and those costs are passed along the chain to importers, wholesalers, retailers, and the end customer.

We always list the weight in grams of each Sterling Silver item we sell, and try to price each item as reasonably as possible. Despite the recent price increases, we’re still very competitively priced, and are fully confident you won’t find our lines at such low prices elsewhere.

Going forward, we will endeavour to keep our sterling silver prices as low as possible.

Some of you may have noticed the new sterling silver lines that began appearing over the past few days. This is the result of Bob’s recent restocking trip, and we hope to have the majority of the new stock live by the end of the week.

It takes a little time to properly photograph each item, and transfer all the information to the website. This is being carried out right now, in between processing and shipping orders.

We have new items available in every one of our sterling silver categories, including Baltic Amber, Mother of Pearl, Plain Silver, and CZs. Our stock of silver snake chains is now back up to date, with batches of 16 and 20 inch chains ready for sale, and of course, our ever popular 18 inch chains.