Club Membership Terms — The Private Sourcing Club
The Private Sourcing Club
Club Membership Terms
In plain English: the Club lets independent retailers buy EU fashion at true trade prices, and lets EU suppliers share designs without fear of copying. Keep your login to yourself, don’t copy or leak designs, don’t go around us to the suppliers, and pay for what you order — and we’ll keep the catalogue flowing, handle every border, and deliver to your door.
01Who can join
- Open to genuine fashion retail businesses — not consumers, manufacturers, agents or wholesalers acting for third parties.
- Every membership is verified after purchase (business details, company/VAT number, shop address or a live selling channel). If we can’t verify you, we cancel and refund in full.
- We may decline or cancel any application at our discretion, with a full refund of unused membership, to protect the Club and its suppliers.
02Membership, billing & cancellation
- Billed monthly in advance, renews automatically until cancelled.
- Cancel any time from your account; access runs to the end of the paid period, no further payments. Started periods are non-refundable except where stated.
- Upgrade or downgrade any time — changes apply from your next billing date.
- Founding rates are personal and valid while membership stays continuously active; if it lapses, rejoining is at the then-current public rate.
03Your account & catalogue access
- Access is personal to your business and non-transferable. One membership, one retail business; your staff may use it.
- Don’t share logins, screenshots, downloads or catalogue links with anyone outside your business — including social media and buying groups.
- We may apply technical measures (including per-account image traceability) and suspend access while we investigate suspected misuse.
04Design protection
Suppliers share designs precisely because the Club is closed, vetted and protected. All catalogue content — designs, photos, patterns, technical details and pricing — is confidential business information.
- You may NOT copy, reproduce or imitate any design, or commission a third party to do so.
- You may NOT share catalogue content with any manufacturer, designer or competitor.
- Image packs are licensed only for marketing products you have actually purchased, through your own channels; the licence ends per-product on a full refund.
- Breach means immediate termination without refund, and we reserve all rights — ours and our suppliers’ — to recover losses.
05Non-circumvention
- Supplier identities, locations and contacts are confidential and deliberately not disclosed. You agree not to identify, contact or transact directly with any supplier introduced through the Club — or help anyone else do so — during membership and for 24 months after.
- This is what lets suppliers offer true trade prices — protecting it protects your prices.
06Orders, prices, fees, delivery & duty
- True trade price — the supplier’s genuine price, no markup from us.
- Sourcing fee — 15% on the value of goods (sourcing, supplier management, coordination, platform), reducing automatically with monthly volume to as low as 10%; your band shows in your account.
- Delivery — flat £45 per box (up to 25kg), door to door, regardless of how full the box is.
- Import duty — 0% on EU-origin goods, 12% on China-origin goods, calculated automatically at checkout so the total shown is final.
- Prices exclude UK VAT unless stated; VAT applied at checkout where applicable.
- Orders are placed with suppliers once payment clears and can’t be cancelled once dispatch preparation is confirmed.
07Delivery & customs handling
- We handle all customs formalities — no EORI needed, no paperwork, no surprise charges beyond what’s shown at checkout.
- Delivery estimates are good-faith, not guarantees; cross-border delays can happen and we chase on your behalf.
08Claims, faults & returns
- Check every delivery on arrival. Raise claims for damaged, faulty, incorrect or missing items within 48 hours, with photos, via your account or jeansgemswholesale@gmail.com.
- Valid claims are resolved by replacement, credit note or refund of affected items including their share of fees — always commercially fair and communicated first.
- As a B2B service, change-of-mind returns aren’t offered unless a listing says so. Statutory rights are unaffected.
09Fair use
- No reselling access, no scraping or bulk-downloading, no using the Club to benchmark for a competing service.
- We may set reasonable order minimums or allocation limits on specific drops — always shown before you order.
10Suspension & termination
- We may suspend or terminate immediately for breach of sections 03, 04 or 05, bad-faith chargebacks, or abuse toward our team or suppliers.
- On termination, your obligations under sections 04 and 05 continue.
11Liability
- Nothing limits liability that can’t lawfully be limited. Otherwise our total liability in any 12-month period is capped at what you paid (membership + sourcing fees) that period, and we’re not liable for indirect losses such as lost profits.
12General
- We may update these terms with 30 days’ notice by email; continued membership means acceptance. Pricing changes never apply retroactively to orders already placed.
- Governed by the laws of England and Wales; its courts have exclusive jurisdiction.
Questions about membership? Email jeansgemswholesale@gmail.com — we’re happy to talk it through before you join.