Tea Light Candles?

jRoy

Hi... just wondering if anyone knows of someone/place where one could buy tea light candles at bulk prices (not in bulk quantities )

I would like to buy 500 to 1000 tea light candles and its hard to find a nice deal at the supermarkets.

Cheers,
jRoy

stacexD

I remember discount world used to sell about 100 of them for something like €1/2

the west wing

I remember I bought 100 tea light candles in Dunnes for €4 not too long ago. They were fairly good quality too!

Tiriel

Ikea do packs of them - can't remember price exactly but was happy!

MaudL

I second Ikea. You can buy a pack of 100 unscented tealights for a little over 2 euros

jRoy

IKEA... never crossed my mind but it sounds so obvious now. Never heard of discount world in Dublin (south) and a quick googling didn't get me nowhere so if anyone knows of one in Dublin... until then, IKEA will have to do!
Thanks guys!

MidnightQueen

Theres an idea, i love tea lights. Anyone know where i can get some decent priced ones around the midlands? Dont have ikea around here.

PhoenixParker

E2 stores have them, and they're usually cheap.

anymore

KittyKat wrote: »

Theres an idea, i love tea lights. Anyone know where i can get some decent priced ones around the midlands? Dont have ikea around here.

I doubt if you will get irish wholesale prices cheaper than Dunnes/B & Q, Lidl etc. Quite often the big retail stores are buying at the same prices or even less than Irish wholesalers -1,000 tea lights may sound like a big order, but it isnt !

jRoy

anymore wrote: »

I doubt if you will get irish wholesale prices cheaper than Dunnes/B & Q, Lidl etc. Quite often the big retail stores are buying at the same prices or even less than Irish wholesalers -1,000 tea lights may sound like a big order, but it isnt !

Got two packs of 100 from IKEA for €2.29 each and Dunnes are doing it for €4.99 for the same pack. 4hrs.

I called a wholesaler in Kylemore and the best she could offer was around €4 per pack if I ordered around 20 packs of 100. No wonder Irish business aren't doing well and these foreign companies prospering.

And don't get me started on Dunnes stores... they want me to buy the same groceries for more than others, reason? "Dunnes stores...because we are Irish" BUT not smart enough to negotiate better deals with our suppliers. Pathetic...
My two lousy cents (from what I saved in IKEA :P)

anymore

jRoy wrote: »

Got two packs of 100 from IKEA for €2.29 each and Dunnes are doing it for €4.99 for the same pack. 4hrs.

I called a wholesaler in Kylemore and the best she could offer was around €4 per pack if I ordered around 20 packs of 100. No wonder Irish business aren't doing well and these foreign companies prospering.

And don't get me started on Dunnes stores... they want me to buy the same groceries for more than others, reason? "Dunnes stores...because we are Irish" BUT not smart enough to negotiate better deals with our suppliers. Pathetic...
My two lousy cents (from what I saved in IKEA :P)

I think I may know that wholesaler from about 15 years ago ! Unfortunatelt it is true that irish wholesalers find it hard ot be competitive but it is even harder for small retailers who msut buy from them !
So I am no longer in retail ! When you see 'below cost offers' in Supermarkets with the stipulation that it is limieted to so many per customer, it is to avoid small retailers buying big amounts of them for resale !

ronan45

Hmmm Never new they existed, but you can get 8 hour tea light candles. I usually light mine about 6pm they are burnt up by 9pm
7.00 quid for 50

http://www.candlesonline.ie/store/cgi-bin/cp-app.cgi?usr=51J3335547&rnd=3632283&rrc=N&affl=&cip=87.232.1.49&act=&aff=&pg=prod&ref=8hr_nightlight_bag&cat=ShopNightLights&catstr=HOME:ShopNightLights

jRoy

Now that's the point, if the Kylemore gang scanned harder to get a better deal for their customers... sourcing it from IKEA would probably workout cheaper for them too and better value for their customers. But the attitude here is not to nurture the goose that lays the golden egg.. they want it all from every customer. Not just the golden eggs, they want the goose fat for roasting their potatoes... not the best of analogies... but you get the point. So they don't mind ripping off their customers by selling an 8hr candle that burns out in a matter of hours.

I wanted the tealights so didn't scan for 8hr ones but I am sure you'll find better deals in IKEA. I got 20 dinner candles for €4.89, 23cms, 6hrs that doesn't bend in warm settings.
I feel like I've become an IKEA rep but they've pretty much everything there, except groceries and clothing!

anymore

jRoy wrote: »

Now that's the point, if the Kylemore gang scanned harder to get a better deal for their customers... sourcing it from IKEA would probably workout cheaper for them too and better value for their customers. But the attitude here is not to nurture the goose that lays the golden egg.. they want it all from every customer. Not just the golden eggs, they want the goose fat for roasting their potatoes... not the best of analogies... but you get the point. So they don't mind ripping off their customers by selling an 8hr candle that burns out in a matter of hours.

I wanted the tealights so didn't scan for 8hr ones but I am sure you'll find better deals in IKEA. I got 20 dinner candles for €4.89, 23cms, 6hrs that doesn't bend in warm settings.
I feel like I've become an IKEA rep but they've pretty much everything there, except groceries and clothing!

Kylemore probably get thiers as part of a much bigger order from manufacturers. wholesalers in the far east, so looking around for good deals in IKEA would not be feasible. Chances are the goods they are selling now were ordered at some trade show 6 months ago. Many of the goods you see in the shops for xmas 2012 will have been ordered at the big international trade shows in either february or in the summer. Consider it can take weeks for goods to come from the far east to europe via ships in containers.

jRoy

Even after going through all that trouble, their wholesale price is no where near IKEA retail price.
The bottom line is... either they haven't got their sources right or lack the negotiation skills that IKEA or any similar big retailer has. I know their purchasing power differs but why should anyone spend more when they can get the same stuff, may be better quality from another reliable source at almost half the price?

anymore

jRoy wrote: »

Even after going through all that trouble, their wholesale price is no where near IKEA retail price.
The bottom line is... either they haven't got their sources right or lack the negotiation skills that IKEA or any similar big retailer has. I know their purchasing power differs but why should anyone spend more when they can get the same stuff, may be better quality from another reliable source at almost half the price?

jRoy i am assuming you havent been in the retail business ? How much time do you think a wholesaler with possibly hundreds of lines - and in some cases thousands, is going to spend on one product with such a low retail price ? How many were you going to buy ? 1,000 . be realistic.
IKEA also emphasises its own product range so i doubt if it would wholesale goods in small quantities to Irish retailers.

jRoy

Well, not for long enough anyway... but my point of view here is more of a consumers' who is bound to go with whoever provides the best value. It's survival of the fittest. Tealight candles is just one example but it goes for everything and foreign chains like IKEA have no competition on this island.