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Save Money Buying Vitamins in Bulk with a Buyer’s Club
It is possible to save money through buying vitamins in bulk. You can do this yourself and purchase large quantities of the supplements and vitamins that you regularly take. It is generally less expensive to purchase larger packs than smaller packs and most outlets offer a variety of pricing options according the quantity you purchase.
Local nutrition stores might not offer vitamins in sufficient bulk for you to save much money, but you can often get larger quantities at lower prices online. One thing you must keep in mind, however, is the expiration date. Make sure that you will be able to finish the vitamins before they pass the expiration date. It is not always good to take supplements after the expiration date. Many nutrients lose their potency over time, especially in warm climates, and it is never wise to ignore these dates.
Most online bulk offers have a minimum order quantity. Typical quantities are 10,000 to 50,000 capsules or tablets. A typical saving currently online is for Vitamin B complex 100 capsule bottles. If you buy 48 bottles you will save $2.25 a bottle over buying 6 bottles. That is a 27% saving. The same is true of a wide range of vitamins, minerals and other supplements, including herbals. They can be purchased either in multiple bottle orders, or in tubs of up to 10,000 tablets or capsules.
This way of buying in bulk is popular and something that you can start today, especially with supplements you take regularly. You can find these offers not only online, but also in your local press. You can frequently find a local health food shop making similar offers, so that you can save on the postage required through online orders.
While that is a common way of reducing your vitamin and mineral costs, there is another way that is starting to grow. That is through a buyer’s club or online discount vitamin store. It is not known for certain how buyer’s clubs started, but clubs are known from the 1960s, when people got together to purchase cannabis in bulk. They found that the price of cannabis could be negotiated when it was being purchased in quantity. If a number of people got together and pooled their money, they could get more buying together than if they bought separately from a local dealer.
This then expanded into other types of club, a common one being an AIDS club, where AIDs victims pooled together to purchase drugs that were legal, but not readily available to the public. The idea expanded until the clubs today not only offer members AIDs drugs at reduced prices, but also provide help and professional medical advice. Other buyer’s clubs have sprung up round the world, not only for AIDs related drugs, but also for drugs needed for a wide variety of conditions.
AIDs clubs also purchase vitamins, minerals and other supplements in bulk and sell them to members at low prices. Many of these people require these supplements as part of their daily medication since such substances are essential for the well being of the human immune system. Although they are essential, vitamins and minerals are not covered by health insurance, and AIDs victims are frequently unable to meet the high costs of regular health stores. Thus, buyer’s clubs are of immense benefit to them
There is no reason why you should not be able to start up a buyer’s club of your own. You need not be a victim of any specific health condition, just a user of vitamins, minerals and other supplements that want to buy your supplies cheaper. Perhaps you can recruit members from your local gym or health club, or even your church. Any group of people, in fact, that regularly use supplements can get together and form a club. There are a number of ways in which it can be organized.
You could start by checking up the online bulk prices of vitamins that many of you use. They have to be supplements that are common to a number of members since there would be no benefit if every individual used a different supplement. Once you got the price, then everybody interested in that supplement could pay the reduced price for their share of the bulk purchase, and then you can make the purchase and distribute the vitamins.
That is a simple way in which a group of people can get together to reduce their vitamin costs. However, that would just be the start. Once others see how you and your group are paying less then they are then they will want to join you. You could also advertise, since it is a perfectly legal way of getting cheap vitamins and minerals.
Your next step, then, would be to draw up a list of products common to sections of your club. You can then expand your online purchases to include the extended list. In that way your members can now purchase a wider range of products at the lower price. Then extend it further. A proportion of the savings made could be put into a fund or an interest account and used as capital for further purchases.
Ultimately, you will have enough buying power to negotiate directly with the manufacturer for the cheapest possible bulk prices for a wide range of different supplements and will have a real buyer’s club. There is no limit to the range of products you can purchase, and once you are dealing with a manufacturer of supplements, then you can negotiate a reduced price for a total order, not only those vitamins that are most popular. That means that your low users will get the same discounts as your high users, if included in the same order.
That is common in industry, where large order prices are applied to smaller orders if made in the same shipment. You might consider applying a club membership fee that is used to provide professional advice on the use of the various types of supplement and ensure that they are being used by your members safely and to their best benefit.
There are many ways in which you can save money by buying vitamins in bulk, but a buyer’s club or an online discount vitamin store could be the method that will ultimately be most rewarding.
