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Packing Tape: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $2.78 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.33 at volume, on a typical 30-day lead time. 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 | $2.78 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $1.74 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $1.18 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.88 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.58 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.33 |
What moves the price
For packing tape, the drivers are roll width, gauge, adhesion, core size — the spec them differently and the same item lands at either end of the band.
Realistic pricing is driven mainly by tape construction: width, film gauge/mil, adhesive system, and whether the tape is custom printed or plain clear/tan. Published wholesale sources show custom printed rolls near $2.46-$3.38 per roll at smaller wholesale packs, while larger-case distributors like StarBoxes and PaxPacking show much lower per-roll pricing for plain shipping tape, which is the best landed-equivalent benchmark for high-volume B2B buying. The most realistic routes are US-facing packaging wholesalers for stocked plain tape and direct-import/custom manufacturers for printed BOPP carton-sealing tape; custom print setup and freight can materially shift the unit cost
Paying more than the median?
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