hi everybody!

i really need your help with this and i'll be very, very grateful if you can give me some pointers

i have to find reliable shops and wholesalers urgently (for all sorts of beads, semiprecious and precious stones (drilled and not drilled), silver wire - sterling and fine, silver/gold beads, findings, etc... everything (except polymer clay))

please, please, please help me, you're the only ones i know who can recommend some good shops...
and i am sorry if this topic doesn't belong here, i'll delete it if necessary

thank you in advance! :* :* :*

What exactly are you looking for? Are you looking to buy stuff?? I have just signed on for some wholesale myself. I know of 2 very reliable wholesalers in my area:
http://www.beadinpath.com/
http://www.caravanbeads.com/index.html

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hi Christina! thank you very much for replying! :*

i'm looking for more or less everything - i live in croatia and we have a very limited supply of beads/stones/other jewelry materials (for example it is very, very hard to find any kind of 925 wire here, or various semiprecious stones (we have some but low quality and the suppliers often lie - they sell glass labeled as "amethyst", or sell "turquoise" which turns out to be some kind of colored rock (and fades to white) etc.)
it is easier to list the things we do have - uneven seed beads, expensive faux pearls (top coat peals off), expensive swarovski crystals, semiprecious stones (of questionable quality/origin - some are not even stones) - basic shapes, silverplated wire (turns pink and/or green), metal chains (no silver chains), very limited selection of clasps/findings/thread/artistic wire
and we don't have almost anything for working with silver (maybe because we don't have silver? )

i'm sick of it and i am going to import everything that's missing here, for personal use and for sale.

once again - thank you very much for your help! :*

Have you looked online at www.firemountaingems.com? While it's not wholesale, you can get a decent price by buying quantity. If you buy 1-14 items you pay list price. If you buy more than that you get a lower price. If you buy 50 items you get another price break and then another after 200 items. You don't have to buy multiples of the same item, you can buy 200 different items if you wish.