Price guide · Sporting Outdoor
Base Layer: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $9.86 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $4.50 at volume. These medians come from published supplier pricing. Treat them as a starting point, not a binding quote. Your spec and quantity set the final price.
Median price by order quantity
| Order size | Median /unit |
|---|---|
| 500–999 units | $9.86 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $8.00 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $7.64 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $6.60 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $5.95 |
| 100,000+ units | $4.50 |
What moves the price
For base layer, the drivers are chamois type, compression level, leg gripper, fabric weight, seam construction, suspender material, insulation type, waterproof rating — the spec them differently and the same item lands at either end of the band.
Published supplier pricing for base-layer and similar athletic/thermal garments clusters around about $5.95 to $12.00 per unit on marketplace wholesale listings, with lower prices appearing on bulk sports-apparel and blank-apparel channels. Fabric weight, thermal construction, and material mix (polyester/spandex versus merino or fleece-lined) move price the most, while custom printing, labels, and branded packaging usually add cost and are easiest to source through overseas OEM/ODM suppliers rather than U.S. stock wholesalers. The most realistic routes are marketplace wholesale suppliers for MOQ-based custom runs, and U.S.-facing blank-apparel wholesalers for simpler decoration on existing base-layer blanks
Paying more than the median?
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