MOQ, lead time and deposit: the three numbers in every hairpiece quote

Every wholesale hairpiece quote comes down to three numbers: the minimum order, the lead time and the deposit. Buyers compare them across suppliers as if they were prices. They are not. Each one tells you how the supplier actually works — and a number that looks better than everyone else’s usually means the supplier is working differently from how it describes itself.

Here are ours, and the reasoning behind each.

Minimum order

From 3 to 10 pieces per product, depending on the product, and 1 kg for wefted bundles.

A hand-tying line is scheduled in blocks. Lace is cut, blocked and ventilated in batches, and a colour is mixed for a batch rather than for one piece. Below a few pieces, the set-up is a large share of the work — which is why the MOQ is low but not zero.

Suppliers advertising an MOQ of one are usually selling from finished stock. That is a legitimate business, but it is retail, and the piece you receive was made for nobody in particular. If you want a single piece to evaluate, a paid sample does that job honestly: one piece, built to the same specification as a production run.

Above the MOQ, pricing steps down in tiers:

Stage Quantity What it is for
Sample 1 piece, sample price Judging the work in your hand
Trial 10–49 Finding out what sells in your market
Wholesale 50–199 Tiered pricing, scheduled slots
Contract 200+ or a monthly block Reserved capacity, your colour ring held here

Lead time

Production time from a confirmed deposit, by product:

Product Production
Wefted bundles and clip-in sets 7–10 days
Closures and frontals 7–12 days
Lace wigs and glueless wigs 10–15 days
Toppers and toupees 12–18 days
Full lace, hand-tied throughout 18–25 days
Custom or OEM with new packaging 25–35 days

Add three to seven days for express courier to the United States, Japan or the Gulf.

A full lace wig carries around thirty thousand knots, and one ventilator ties them one at a time. That is where the days go. A supplier quoting three days for a full lace unit is either shipping from stock or not tying it by hand — both are worth knowing before you order.

What moves a lead time, in practice, is not speed at the bench. It is the queue. Contract customers have reserved slots; a new order joins the next open one. If a date matters — a launch, a trade show, the weeks before Tết — say so in the first message and we will tell you honestly whether it can be met.

Deposit

50% confirms a production slot. The balance is due before despatch. From the second order, we are open to 30/70.

The deposit exists because we hold no finished stock. Hair is bought, coloured and tied for your order specifically, and a cancelled custom piece rarely suits anyone else. It is not a test of trust — it is the cost of the materials that go into your order before a single knot is tied.

Two things to check with any supplier, us included:

  • Who the invoice comes from. Ours is issued by WINA Trading & Service Supply Co., Ltd., a registered Vietnamese company. An invoice from an individual’s account is a different level of risk.
  • What you see before the balance. We send photographs and video of the finished pieces — underside, hairline, parting, colour against your ring — before asking for the rest of the money.

Reading a quote from anyone

Put the three numbers side by side and ask whether they are consistent with each other. A very low MOQ with a very short lead time means stock. A very short lead time on full lace means machine work somewhere. A deposit of 100% up front on a first order means the risk is all yours.

None of those is automatically wrong. They describe a different kind of supplier — and you should buy from the kind you think you are buying from.

The full terms are on our wholesale page. For what happens between the first email and the carton, see how an order runs. For the current price list, ask here.

Wigs Vietnam · Khanh Hoa

We are a hand-tying workshop that makes men’s toupees and women’s hair toppers for retailers and studios. Send us a photograph of what you need and a length — we come back with a specification, a price and a lead time, usually within one working day.