How to buy wholesale vintage clothing by the pound (and why Raghouse sells by the lot)
Search for wholesale vintage clothing and half the results quote a price per pound. It is a fair question to ask, so here is the straight answer about how it works at our plant in Phoenix, and why the lots on this site are priced by the lot rather than by the scale.
Two different businesses wearing the same words
Buying “by the pound” usually means buying unsorted or lightly sorted goods in bulk: a bale, a pallet, or a container. You pay for weight, you take what the weight contains, and the margin comes from your own labour sorting it. That is a real business and it is the one our parent company runs. Tiedemann Globe Incorporated has graded and exported used clothing, shoes and household textiles from Phoenix since 1994, and sells it in bulk by the container to importers.
Raghouse is the other end of the same building. Instead of selling weight, we pull the pieces worth pulling off that same grading line, count them, film them, and list them one lot at a time. A title like “Denim + Corduroy + Flannel Blouses 32 pcs” tells you exactly what arrives: thirty-two garments, the ones in the video, nothing swapped.
Why counted lots beat weight for most resellers
If you sell online, your cost per sellable item decides whether you make money. A bale priced by the pound hides that number. You cannot see how many pieces are stained, how many are the wrong size range, how many will never list. You find out after you have paid freight on all of it.
A filmed lot moves the unknown to the front. You watch the video, count what you would actually put up for sale, and decide. The ones you would pass on are visible before you spend. That is the whole reason we film every lot instead of writing a grade name on a bale tag and leaving you to trust it.
What a first order usually looks like
New buyers tend to start with one category they already sell — tees, denim, blouses, jackets — and one lot in it. Watch the video twice: once for the pieces, once for the condition. Read the title. “Unsorted” means mixed and not picked through. “Recycle” means items with issues, priced for people who cut, upcycle, or sell at a lower tier. If a title says neither, you are looking at picked goods.
Then look at the freight. Rates here are quoted live at checkout from your real box count and weight, so the number you see is the number the carrier charges. Most orders leave as several boxes, each with its own tracking number, and they do not always arrive on the same day. Domestic delivery usually lands in two to eight business days.
When weight is the right answer
Sometimes it is. If you are filling a retail floor, supplying a market stall abroad, or running your own sorting crew, paying for weight is cheaper per pound than paying for someone else’s picking labour. That is a container conversation, and it belongs with Tiedemann Globe — send a buy list through tiedemannglobe.com/buyers with your categories, grade and destination and the team there will quote it.
If you want to see what you are buying before you buy it, stay here. New lots post every weekday afternoon, around 2:30 PM Arizona time, and each one exists exactly once.
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