When you buy as many jewelry beads online as I do, you often learn how to spot a good deal when you see one. I often look for the cheapest price per bead when I’m comparative shopping a different online jewelry supply sites, but lately I’ve been paying a lot more attention to online beading stores that offer free or discounted shipping.

Shipping charges can be especially expensive if you’re only ordering a small number of beads. I once ordered $10.00 worth of beads and jewelry supplies (seed beads) through a website and ended up paying $8.50 just …

If you make your own jewelry to sell to others then you know how important it is to keep your costs low while still being able to offer your customers lots of beautiful jewelry made with decent gemstones. Instead of lowering the quality of the beads and jewelry supplies you use, you may want to consider buying mixed bead and gemstone lots online!

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This weekend I was reminded that you can sometimes get the best beads without paying a lot of money. I stopped in a local dollar store and was amazed at how wide a variety of beads and general jewelry and craft supplies they had on sale. They actually had an entire row filled with things I could use to make jewelry with.

In most stores you’d expect to get nothing more than a few kid’s jewelry beads or a little bag of plastic seed beads for a dollar, …

There are lots of great ways to buy your discount jewelry supplies online, but one of the best ways to save money on jewelry supplies is to buy them in an online auction. An online auction allows you to purchase a lot of different beads and supplies at one time, usually for a price that’s similar or better than what you might pay when buying from wholesale jewelry suppliers.

Lots of people sell beads and jewelry supplies through online auctions for a few different reasons. …

One of the best ways to purchase cheap beads online is to use special internet coupon codes and links when you purchase your beads for making jewelry.  Just like regular coupons, online coupon codes and links usually allow you to save a few dollars when you’re purchasing your beads on different web sites.  A great example is the Goody Beads coupon code I posted a while ago that allowed you to get 10% off your order.  Online coupon codes don’t always work for various reasons, which is why I usually like using cheap beading links instead.  Links often seem …