6 Ways to Cut Down Wooden Toys Cost

Have you ever been confused why the same wooden toy  you really interested, to different 5 suppliers to ask for quotes, the cheapest and the most expensive vary greatly? Here are the answers to your questions:

• Material: We use many wood in for toys, they are beech wood, rubber wood, pinewood, juniper wood, bass Plywood, popular plywood, MDF… Prices range from expensive to inexpensive, and the appropriate range for each wood is different, in addition to considering the cost of raw materials. Whether it is worth or appropriate to use a particular material is very much a matter of opinion. We will write another article to explain this in detail.  will be cheaper than beech wood. For example,  a cutting board with the size 21.5x10x1cm, plywood will be $0.2 cheaper than beech wood. Beech wood block is always more higher than pinewood, however we never use plywood to produce blocks and never use beech wood for chunky puzzle.

• Make it smaller: We have to admit a smaller item will be cheaper than a big one. For example, we make the make-up dresser smaller. (see below first image) The price could be $1.73 cheaper. The large one is 60x30x100cm. The smaller one is 52x60x84.5cm. We can find that the size is not much smaller, but much cheaper. The reason hidden behind is that the size is more economical, which is usually the most important in the program.

• Change Painting Place or way: For example, one piece flat wooden board with 360 ° paintng, the other same size one only front and back with painting.  At first glance, you won’t notice the difference， however the price with whole painting is higher than just outside painting. And if the board only one side you want showing outside, We can even choose to print only on the front.

• Change printing Technology: We have many kinds of printing methods, UV printing, screen printing, heat transfer, pad printing, water transfer, hot stamping, etc. Each type of printing also has a different range of adaptation. But UV printing, screen printing, heat transfer and hot stamping range is almost the same, but the effect is not the same. This is especially important to note is that heat transfer printing will be faster and cheaper per unit, but there will be a mold cost is 450 U.S. dollars, the general life cycle of the mold is 2 years.

• Change Package: Our toys also have a lot of packaging methods, such as window boxes, color boxes, transparent PVC, display boxes, paper cards, paper tubes, paper sleeves, gift boxes, heaven and earth cover boxes, pizza boxes, wooden boxes, variety boxes, iron boxes, bags. There are many ways and materials to choose from, and then there are many different prices. For example, Pain box will be cheaper than color box. If without the box just shrink wrap, the price will be much cheaper. 

• Add the QTY:  Yes, it must have just occurred to you that quantity is certainly one of the main reasons. Our MOQ is 1K, for 3K or 5K, the price will be better especially for big items. For example the large make-up dresser. 3K will be $0.5 cheaper than 1k.

Of course there are many other reasons, such as company management costs, overall quality system, etc. But no matter what, it is extremely important to find a supplier that matches you, no one wants to get a low or screwed up price, but with a lot of problems.

The End about Tooky

Tooky is a leading 18 years wooden toy supplier based in China. Below is our main 7 values. If you are interested in importing wooden toys, feel free to CONTACT us.

1) Products-Over 500 fine selected products + over 40 quarterly new launches. 

2) Free customized designs-9 experienced product managers, they will convert toy into with your brand characteristics

3) Customized package-4 packaging experts offer not only safe package, but legal labeling for market access

4) Test report-Not sure of testing standards? You can leave test with us till we get a final “pass” report as market requires

5) Lifestyle pictures-Never feel helpless about marketing! Will offer you lifestyle pictures if you need

6) Short videos-Check with our sales for “Short Video Paid-Service & Discount Program”

7) Exclusivity program-After spending a tremendous amount of resources on marketing and advertising, we may see competitors sharing our fruits of labor by carrying very similar products. How to obtain some kind of protections? An “exclusivity program” needed to be put in place, check with our sales.

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