Buying in this much bulk leaves a lot of vintage shop owners with more merchandise than needed. The vintage shop owner then acquires the need for a place to sift through these bales, other than at their vintage shop. If the vintage shop is a successful vintage shop, chances are it is in a good area that is proud of its retail space. Making the cost for a vintage shop owner to store bales expensive. Bales purchased from rag houses have to be sifted through, because usually a rag houses version of a good grade is much different than a vintage shop owners. Not everything is sellable; leaving the vintage shop owner throwing out much of it's purchased articles. However, the prices are usually so good when a vintage buyer can purchase in so much bulk, that many times the loss of some merchandise still makes the sellable merchandise quite profitable. Unfortunately the added expense for a vintage shop to store the left over merchandise can be over bearing. Many vintage shop owners would rather pay a little more per article, than have to store left over articles that may never sell from the shop. Having time at all, to locate and make deals with these rag houses can be difficult enough for vintage shop owners. Many buyers have sole privileges with rag houses making it even more difficult for someone starting out in this industry to purchase merchandises this way. Until recently there has bean no other alternative to buyers purchasing large amounts of sellable Vintage Clothing. Having something to fill the gap, a vintage wholesaler if you will, would give today's Vintage Buyers, and the ones of tomorrow, a whole new way of purchasing vintage items. It would present the buyer the opportunity to purchase items, in any amount, when they need them.

This would free up so much time for the buyer, providing them the chance to stay at home and run their vintage shop, or whatever it is they do. Having a Vintage Clothing Warehouse would also cut back on the extra storage a vintage shop owner would need, while offering him/her the opportunity to store only what is selling best that season. Until recently no one has tried to fill the gap, sure some have tried and are still trying. Most of them are single shop owners that are trying to find a way to resale items purchased in bulk, that they deemed unworthy to sale in there own retail shop. These individuals are not providing for many customers but are instead moving there dead stock for whatever they can. At the same time some overseas shipping companies have tried to fill the gap by offering smaller bundles than rag houses, selling items per piece instead of per pound. Unfortunately, these are over seas shipping companies, not vintage wholesalers, making most of these companies unaware of what the vintage consumer is in fact looking for. Attempts have been made, because the need is there, but so far only one company stands out as a leader in this evolving industry.

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