Sock WholesalersPage last updated: October 30, 2026
Price per pair: a sum of parts, costed against your own construction
There is no price list on this site, and no indicative per-pair figure printed here, because a per-pair number belongs to a specification. What this page can do is set out what the number is built on and where it lands on paper.
- No price listPublished, deliberately
- 4 bandsUnder 1,000 / 1,000–4,999 / 5,000–19,999 / 20,000+ pairs, per style
- No % offFor volume is published either
- One working dayFor the costing on your brief
1. What a per-pair price contains
Yarn, knitting time, toe linking, boarding, packing and freight. Yarn and knitting time carry most of the number, and packing is small but visible when two quotes are compared.
Most of a per-pair price is time on the machines. That is the part a quantity band can actually move, and it is why the band matters more than the negotiation does.
We publish no price list. The wholesale price comes back with your specification, colour count and quantity, on a proforma invoice. That is not a dodge: a price quoted before the specification is fixed is a guess, and a guess that moves later is what sours a project.
2. The six levers
Six things move the per-pair number. Each one is a real change to the run, and each one has a floor below which the run stops making sense:
| Lever | What changes | How far it moves |
|---|---|---|
| Quantity per style | Machine setup spread over more pairs | The most room of the six |
| Size split | Fewer size changes per carton | A small move |
| Colour count | Fewer dye lots and fewer changeovers | Small to moderate |
| Yarn | Fibre and count on the needle | A large move — and it changes the sock |
| Packing | Labour in the packing room | Small but visible |
| Reorder planning | The floor plans around a repeat | Nothing on the first order |
Ask which lever moved the number. A quote that drops with no answer to that question has usually changed a part you did not agree to. Bring two levers, not six: a quote built on a real quantity and a real size split is the one worth setting beside another supplier’s.
3. The bands, and what is not published
Pricing is quoted per style, and it moves with the order: larger runs price differently from pilot-sized ones. Where the quantity lands is stated against the same bands the enquiry form offers, per style: under 1,000 pairs, 1,000–4,999 pairs, 5,000–19,999 pairs, and 20,000+ pairs.
A range is costed for the band you name, so the same style sent through in two different bands comes back as two different ranges, and those two replies are the comparison worth making.
The size of the step between two bands is not published, and no percentage off for volume is published either: the step is not a flat discount, because yarn, needle count, colour count and packing change with the order as well as the quantity does.
4. The per-pair figure that is published
One per-pair number does appear on this site, and it is weight, not price. Weight per pair is not carried as a catalogue figure on any style: it is measured in grams on the signed sample, then again on pairs pulled from the bulk carton, and both figures are recorded against your order number.
Weight is what a cost sheet divides by when freight is worked out, and it is the figure a buyer can check without seeing anyone’s margin. Ask for both numbers on the sample sheet and a heavy sock can be compared with a light one on paper.
The negotiation side, lever by lever, is written out on how to negotiate sock pricing. The clause on bands and steps: wholesale terms, section 5.
Send the construction and the quantity band
Yarn, size split, colour count and packing. The costing comes back against your own specification within one working day, and the binding figure is the one on the proforma invoice.
sales@sockwholesalers.com, +86-13761030160. We answer every enquiry within one working day; replies come from Michelle Zhang, Export sales manager.