{"id":25,"date":"2026-08-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/why-no-list-prices\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:00:00","slug":"why-no-list-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/why-no-list-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we stopped publishing list prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-lead\">We used to send a price list. It created more confusion than it solved, because every buyer read the number against a different specification.<\/p>\n<h2>What actually changes the number<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fabric construction and mill, not just the fibre name.<\/li>\n<li>Total quantity and the quantity per colourway.<\/li>\n<li>Size break and the resulting fabric consumption.<\/li>\n<li>Labels, trims, packaging and any compliance testing.<\/li>\n<li>Incoterm, destination port and the required ship window.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A published indicative band quietly assumes a mid-range fabric, a fixed quantity, one colourway and FOB Shanghai. Change any one of those and the band is wrong. Buyers then build a margin on a number that was never theirs.<\/p>\n<h2>What you get instead<\/h2>\n<p>Every RFQ returns a written spec, a cost breakdown by fabric \/ trim \/ labour \/ packing, a sampling plan and a ship-date estimate within one business day. Approved wholesale accounts can optionally enable indicative price bands in the site settings, but the quotation remains the only contractual number.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A quotation is a number with a specification attached. Anything else is marketing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A B2B price without a fabric, quantity, size break and label spec is a guess. Here is what our quotation includes instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[29,30,28],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-we-work","tag-b2b","tag-how-we-work","tag-quotation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}