Fair Trade Sports | sustainable eco soccer balls and more

Wholesale Pricing
Our wholesale program is simple and easy to use. Wholesale pricing starts at just 10 units per sku (e.g. 10 basketballs, or 10 children’s soccer balls). Our wholesale website can handle your wholesale transactions; no need for extraneous paperwork. We move our new retailers to net terms after 6 months of successful ordering/reordering.

Here is our wholesale price sheet for sports balls.

Our current top sellers (in this order) are:

1. Soccer ball, size 5, Club quality (Wave)
2. Soccer ball, size 3, Club quality (Dots)
3. Football
4. Soccer ball, size 4, Club quality (Diamonds)
5. Street Basketball

You’ll find yourself ordering our higher end sport balls, such as the Match level soccer balls, once your local high school and collegiate coaches begin to order from your store. In soccer, size 5 for ages 12 and up and size 4 for ages 8 – 12 years. For children under 8 years, we recommend a size 3 training ball.

The typical startup retail order consists of 10 of each of the top five sellers + the retail display (more on that below). If your location cannot handle that amount, we also have folks order 10 balls from 2-3 skus instead of all 5 and still get the attention of any athlete who visits your store. A basketball player will see that you have soccer balls and definitely approach you to inquire about eco basketballs. You can then decide whether you want to order 10 or 50 basketballs, depending on whether you want to outfit their team or entire league!

The balls ship/store deflated, so they take up very little room in your storage area. Inflation needles are included on a postcard that includes bilingual (Spanish|English) inflation instructions.

Each order includes an ample supply of 4×6 double-sided postcards which tell a bit of the story behind FT sports balls on one side, and the specific FTS brand story on the other (namely that we give away all after-tax profits to children’s charities).

We’ve been told that many shoppers will pick one up on their normal “stop by the store to see what’s new” visit, then return the next day to purchase a sports ball, usually as a gift item for someone they know. They’re also useful to “seed” with other purchases, including the postcard with their receipt and other brochures.

We also have a new display system we’ve been placing in Whole Foods Markets and independent eco retail shops. It’s made from eco-certified wood, is quite attractive, and only takes up one square foot of your floor space. See photo and let us know if interested when you place your sports ball order. We sell them at our cost. The last batch came in at $250/display (not including shipping).

We have other display systems for slatwall, if you have that on your walls. Other stores have had success hanging the sports balls in classic string Eco-Bags from their ceilings. With the wide mesh, the bags disappear from your eye and you just see the ball…without taking up floor space!

Please let us know if we can answer additional questions. We’d love to have you join our family of retailers. We ship within 48 business hours of order receipt – let us know if we can send you a package!

Private Label Balls
We also offer custom design pricing through our US-based partner, Fair Deal Trading USA.

If you are interested in a minimum order of 300 units completed in your own branding colors and logos, just ask and we can help you from design to delivery to your door.