I’ve spent 16 years on sign factory floors. Since 2010, I've been at Aochuang Sign in Lu'an, Anhui.
Here's what nobody tells you: most "wholesale" catalogs are just middlemen marking up the same factory you can contact directly. We run a 3,000m² facility with 50+ skilled workers and ship worldwide. A wholesale account with us isn't a loyalty program or a discount code. It's a direct line to the guy who cuts the acrylic and welds the stainless.
No corporate speak. I've burned my hands on hot acrylic and argued with suppliers about LED quality.
Your margin depends on this. Factory prices for front-lit channel letters run $20-80 per letter. US retail installed pricing runs $200-700 per letter. That gap is how you pay your rent, your crew, and your truck.
Look, if you're a sign shop that installs at least 3-5 channel letter jobs a year, you should be buying factory direct. If you're a contractor who bids on strip mall or restaurant buildouts, same thing. Importers who already handle freight and customs will find our process easy.
We're not the right fit for a one-off DIY project that needs a sign tomorrow. Lead time is 7-15 days production plus shipping. You're looking at 3-5 weeks minimum landed, unless you pay for air freight and even then, we can't bend physics.
That's not a flaw. It's the trade-off for cutting out three layers of markup.
Our MOQ is 1 piece. Not 100, not a container. You can test us for under $100 with a sample letter. That's rare in this industry and I don't apologize for it.
Account terms are simple: you send vector files, we do the layout, you approve, we produce. No annual fee. No monthly minimum. I don't care if you order once a year or fifty times.
But here's the catch. We're a factory, not a design agency. If your logo is a JPEG from a napkin sketch, we'll clean it up, but we won't rebrand your client. That's your job.
Send us these file types and we'll work with them:
Factory prices per letter: front-lit channel letters $20-80. Back-lit halo $35-120. Stainless steel non-lit $15-40. 3D fabricated $40-120. Aluminum $10-25. Light boxes $80-250 per square meter. Neon flex $30-200 per sign.
For architectural jobs, back-lit halo letters are $35-120 factory. Your client pays $400-1,000 installed. That's not markup. That's installation, travel, insurance, and your time.
Factory-direct savings on product alone run 50-65% compared to typical US wholesale. If you're paying $800 for a letter from a domestic supplier, ask yourself what you could do with that $600 difference.
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