Miyuki Seed Beads

It seems inconceivable that we could add even one more beads to our amazing stock of beads at The Beadcage. However, we have defied the laws of efficiency and come up with a way to add over 800 new products to our store. Most stores do not even have 800 products, but we are actually adding this amount to the thousands already at The Beadcage. We brought in about 3000 packages of seed beads. Eight hundred new colors and styles of Miyuki Delica seed beads are out and waiting for you to purchase.

When you shop at The Beadcage on line or in person, we want it to be worth you while. That is why we are adding more products all the time. With the addition of more Delica seed beads it is even better to shop at The Beadcage. We know we cannot possibly stock and have on hand every product you are searching for all the time, but we sure are trying. The beads are out and we are working hard to reorder what has already sold out to make sure we have what you want on hand when you need it. Our selection of Miyuki and Toho seed beads is by all standards amazing. We have probably one of the largest selections of seed beads you will find anywhere. In addition, we carry a great variety of good quality Chinese seed beads and other Japanese seed beads.

You will be amazed at the selection of seed beads at the store. Other than the Delica seed beads, most are packaged in “Tic-Tac” boxes with the flip tops. These clear plastic containers are the preferred choice of professional beaders. Out selection and packaging makes The Beadcage the clear choice for for those using seed beads.

Seed beads are available for purchase on line and at The Beadcage right now.

It means being a great retailer. It means being professional. For example, when we started The Beadcage, we began with a small stock of Swarovski Crystal purchased from a wholesaler. We were not able to offer competitive prices. So we petitioned Swarovski to become a distributor. We have been a distributor for several years and are able to offer you similar or better prices than the wholesalers we originally bought from. This enabled us to stock every color of Swarovski crystal and more as well as most sizes and colors. At The Beadcage you can buy from one to thousands of a single Swarovski crystal. In addition, we are the only store in the world to carry a 2mm double AB bicone made specially for us. Because of our dedication and high standards, we are one of only a few Swarovski Recommended stores in the country. When you come in, you will quickly see why.

There are little things that we do to enhance your bead shopping pleasure. One thing that we do different from most stores is that all of our strands are tied, like necklaces. No one wears their beads in a vertical strand, so why would we display strands this way. When you look at our strands you immediately see how the beads would lay in a necklace.

This is one small thing that you may not be able to put your finger on, but it is one of those little things that makes this store seem so right. When people say the store is so inspiring, it is a small touch like this that helps to make it happen.

As a consumer, the best way is to buy on line.

If you have a great little local bead store that offers a nice environment, great service and beads, it may not be there for long if you buy on line. If you want it to thrive, grow, and be there for years of enjoyment, you have to spend your money there. If you don’t, it won’t have great prices, it wont have a great selection, it can’t offer great classes and it will close.

Providing a beads store is a very expensive venture. It is even harder if the beads store’s wholesaler is competing with them for their customers. What does this mean? A bead store buys its product from a company that stocks lots of beads to sell in large quantity at lower prices to bead stores. This place, in general terms, is called a wholesaler. The beads store sells the product at smaller quantities to consumers at slightly higher prices. This higher price buys you, the customer, a nice store to shop in and it pays the salaries of the people who own the store and work there. The wholesaler has a warehouse and does not offer great classes and a great place to shop and congregate. Most likely the wholesaler does not pay tax in your town and does not support your town with jobs for the people who live there.

What has happened is that the large “wholesalers” and catalog stores with the help of the internet have decided to sell directly to their retailer’s customers bypassing the retailers (local beads stores). Yes, you may get a better price for a few beads, but you and your community lose in every other way. When you want to take a bead class or see some beads in person or get some personal help, the wholesaler will not be there for you and there will be no store in your town either. When you want a summer job for yourself or your children, that local store will not be there. When there are only big box retailers and alot of empty store fronts in your town, the wholesaler will not be there for you.

Places who have great beads stores support these stores. The only way to have a great store store is to support it. Don’t buy from on line retailers, buy at your local beads store or from a local beads store like The Beadcage. If your local store does not have what you need, have them get it and then buy it. It may be a bit more expensive, but in time prices will come down. Take classes at the store. Teach at the store. Tell friends about the store. Spend time posting positive constructive comments about your store on blogs and rating services on line so others will know about it. Don’t bad mouth a local store, work with them constructively to help them improve.

Remember having a lemonade stand as a child and watching cars go by and no one stops? As a child it is a pretty bad feeling. This is the same feeling a bead store has when people drive by and buy from an on line “wholesaler”.

It means doing things different. Doing things they way they should be done. It means thinking of the right way to do things and then making it happen.

At The Beadcage, we do this every day. We don’t have the luxury of a 10,000 sq foot space to display our beads, so that is why we have to do things better. We can’t be everything to everyone, and we understand this. What we do is what is most important. We do the important and unique things well. We cater to our designers. We listen and we react. Because we are beaders and designers ourselves we have a good idea of what is needed. We try not to fill the store with esoterica and frill. We can’t do this as we are limited by space. Instead we are the best at what we do.

We provide a clean well lit environment. We dust and clean often. We make every attempt to stay stocked. We carry a great variety of beads and findings, adding new product and updating product at every chance we can.

Most of the product we buy is not being bought at the same places everyone else buys. While others say they are importers, we prove it every day. Most of our product is sourced at the factory outside the US, personally. This means that most beads are “designed” by us. We specify the material, size, shape and quality of our beads. Most of our product is not seconds or left overs. We buy what is in style and stock the most popular colors. We buy in quantity like the large catalog retailers, but we offer better value. We offer product and prices you wont find elsewhere.