bass100 Posted January 21, 2010 Report Share Posted January 21, 2010 (edited) Does anyone know much about purchasing UPC barcodes. I am aware that you can buy barcodes from GS1 which are the only acceptable codes to the largest retailers like Walmart, of course you would have to be a member which has a start up fee of around $750 and a $150 anual membership fee and each bar code is around $80 unless you buy package deals. You can also buy used UPC bar codes that are no longer in use and these will cost around $8 per bar code (accepted by almost all retailers accept Walmart ect.). So if you are selling five different lures in 20 different colors you will need 100 different UPC barcodes, that is alot of money in barcodes. So does anyone know a cheaper way to obtain barcodes. Edited January 21, 2010 by bass100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptRodney Posted January 21, 2010 Report Share Posted January 21, 2010 Does anyone know much about purchasing UPC barcodes. I am aware that you can buy barcodes from GS1 which are the only acceptable codes to the largest retailers like Walmart, of course you would have to be a member which has a start up fee of around $750 and a $150 anual membership fee and each bar code is around $80 unless you buy package deals. You can also buy used UPC bar codes that are no longer in use and these will cost around $8 per bar code (accepted by almost all retailers accept Walmart ect.). So if you are selling five different lures in 20 different colors you will need 100 different UPC barcodes, that is alot of money in barcodes. So does anyone know a cheaper way to obtain barcodes. I bought mine a few years back from a company on ebay each bar code ordered were registered to me. I use for a major national gun parts distributor for some software i sell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bass100 Posted January 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2010 From the research I have done if a barcode was bought before 2002 it can be resold, but after 2002 if cannot be resold. If you buy your barcode from GS1 the barcode is good for life, however if you buy your barcode from 1 of the other 5 companies that sell barcodes, it is good as long as the company you bought it from is in business. If you buy your barcodes from one of these companies and they go out of business 5 or 10 years down the road it could be devastating enough to cause you to have to close your business down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zolja Posted January 21, 2010 Report Share Posted January 21, 2010 From the research I have done if a barcode was bought before 2002 it can be resold, but after 2002 if cannot be resold. If you buy your barcode from GS1 the barcode is good for life, however if you buy your barcode from 1 of the other 5 companies that sell barcodes, it is good as long as the company you bought it from is in business. If you buy your barcodes from one of these companies and they go out of business 5 or 10 years down the road it could be devastating enough to cause you to have to close your business down. A: Hey, what's up? How's the business? B: Not good. Had to close it down. A: Why!? What happened!? B: Barcodes changed... Now that would suck big time... Zoran Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
