About the company
The distributor behind the accessory wall
Higa Trader LLC is a wholesale distributor of electronic accessories and small gadgets based in Valley Stream, New York. We began with charging accessories for a handful of neighborhood electronics stores and now supply sixteen categories to retail, repair and ecommerce accounts across thirty eight states.
- Founded
- 2016
- Headquarters
- Valley Stream, NY
- Categories
- 16
- States served
- 38
Our story
A van, a short customer list and one category
Nine years later the catalog covers the whole wall, but the way we work with a buyer has not changed much since the first delivery.
Higa Trader LLC opened in 2016 with a small warehouse in Valley Stream, a van and a customer list you could count on two hands. The business was charging accessories: wall adapters, car chargers and the cables that go with them, sold by the case to independent electronics stores across Nassau County and the eastern edge of Queens. Those first accounts were not chains. They were owner operated stores where the person doing the buying was also the person working the counter on a Saturday, and where an empty peg on the charging wall was money walking straight out the door.
The first real inflection came when handset manufacturers stopped putting a wall adapter in the box. Almost overnight a category that had been a steady seller became the fastest turning item in the store. Every activation, every upgrade and every replacement handset created a customer who needed a charger that same day. Our accounts started asking whether we could cover the rest of the wall too, because a supplier who kept them in stock on adapters was easier to trust than the three other companies they were calling for cases, glass and audio. We said yes, and much of 2018 was spent turning a charging supplier into a full accessory wall distributor.
The second shift arrived in 2020. When offices emptied out, demand for keyboards, mice, webcams, docking stations, USB hubs and desktop audio went vertical, and it came from buyers we had never sold before. Office supply stores, school districts, clinics, congregations and small businesses were suddenly buying peripherals in tens and twenties without a procurement department to help them. That demand never fully receded. What began as a temporary surge became a permanent part of the catalog, and PC and desktop accessories now sit beside phone accessories as a core category rather than an afterthought.
The third shift was the arrival of the online seller. Marketplace and ecommerce operators want something different from a retail buyer. They are less sensitive to the last few cents of unit cost and far more sensitive to consistency, because a changed factory revision or a redesigned box can quietly undo a listing that took a year to rank. We built a supply program around exactly that: the same manufacturer, the same revision, stable packaging, case packs sized to fulfillment center intake rules and product data a seller can list with rather than rewrite.
Today the business stands on three legs. Independent retail, the repair and counter channel, and ecommerce supply. Sixteen categories, more than two thousand four hundred active items, thirty eight states and a growing export book. What has not changed is the shape of the company. We are deliberately small enough that the person who prices your order is the person who answers the phone when something goes wrong with it, and large enough to hold real inventory rather than quoting from a catalog we do not own.
What we stand on
Four rules that decide the hard calls
Every distributor says it is honest and responsive. These are the specific commitments a buyer can hold us to, and the ones we lose orders over.
Sell what will actually turn
Check the product
Answer the phone
Price it honestly
How we got here
Nine years, four shifts in the market
Accessory distribution changes whenever the devices change. These are the moments that reshaped what we carry and how we buy it.
2016
Higa Trader is founded
The company opens in Valley Stream, New York supplying charging accessories to a handful of independent electronics stores across Nassau County and Queens.
2018
The wall expands
Cases, screen protection and audio are added, turning a charging supplier into a full accessory wall distributor and tripling the average customer order.
2020
Home office demand arrives
The shift to remote work pulls PC peripherals, webcams and docking into the catalog. That category never receded and is now a permanent part of the business.
2022
Quality program formalized
Incoming lot inspection, function testing and certification record keeping are formalized into a written program after a market wide rise in undertested power product.
2023
Ecommerce channel opens
Dedicated supply programs launch for marketplace sellers, with consistent revisions, listing ready product data and fulfillment center compatible case packs.
2025
Sixteen categories, thirty eight states
The catalog reaches sixteen categories and more than two thousand four hundred active items, shipping to retail, repair and ecommerce accounts across thirty eight states.
How we buy
Factory direct, qualified first, inspected before it is stocked
What a distributor refuses to buy matters more to your shelf than what it agrees to sell.
A great deal of the accessory product entering the United States passes through at least one layer of traders who never physically see it. A container is bought on a specification sheet, resold on the same specification sheet and delivered to a buyer who is the first person in the entire chain to open a box. When something is wrong in that chain nobody can tell you which factory made the item, which lot it came from or whether the certification printed on the carton actually belongs to the product inside it.
We buy differently. Every line we carry is sourced from the manufacturer or from its named authorized agent, and before a first purchase order we review the business license, the quality system documentation, the applicable certification and the real production capability. That qualification takes time and it costs us access to a certain kind of very cheap product. It also means we can answer the question that matters when a customer calls about a failure: who built this, when, and what else came off that line.
Anonymous trading intermediaries are the part of the chain we deliberately avoid. Not because every such company is a bad actor, but because each layer between the factory and your shelf removes information, adds cost and makes accountability harder to establish. A distributor that cannot name the factory cannot honestly warranty the product, and a warranty nobody can trace is a sentence in a document rather than a promise.
Once product arrives it is inspected before it is stocked, not after a customer complains. Each incoming lot is sampled against an agreed acceptable quality level covering cosmetic condition, packaging integrity, labeling accuracy and function. Chargers and power banks are tested for rated output under load. Cables are checked for correct data and power negotiation. Memory is tested for true capacity and sustained write speed, because overstated capacity remains a genuine risk in this market. Lots that fail are quarantined and returned rather than blended into good stock, which is the shortcut that quietly ruins a distributor over a few seasons.
- Factory business license and quality documentation reviewed before a first order
- UL and ETL test reports held on file for applicable power products
- FCC declarations on radio products and UN38.3 documentation on lithium items
- Incoming lots sampled against an agreed acceptable quality level
- Twelve month warranty against manufacturing defect from the invoice date
- Every shipment traceable back to a factory, a lot and an inspection record
Factory qualification
Before a first purchase order we review the factory business license, quality system documentation, applicable certification and production capability. We buy from manufacturers and their authorized agents rather than from anonymous trading intermediaries.
Certification on file
Power products carry UL or ETL test reports where applicable. Radio products carry FCC declarations. Lithium products carry UN38.3 transport test summaries and safety data sheets. We keep the paperwork and supply it with your order on request.
Incoming lot inspection
Each incoming lot is sampled against an agreed acceptable quality level. We check cosmetic condition, packaging integrity, labeling accuracy and function. Lots that fail are quarantined and returned rather than blended into stock.
The company in numbers
Small company, serious inventory
These are the operating numbers a buyer actually cares about when deciding whether a supplier can carry a shelf.
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Active SKUs
Across every accessory family we supply
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States Served
Retail chains, kiosks and repair networks
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Order Turnaround
On stocked items placed before 2 PM ET
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Fill Rate
Measured across the last four quarters
Where we are
Valley Stream, New York, on the edge of the city
Close enough to walk into a customer store, connected enough to reach most of the country quickly.
Valley Stream sits on the Nassau County line, minutes from the Queens border and inside the New York metropolitan freight network. The location was chosen for the customers rather than for the rent. A good share of the accounts we started with are still within an hour drive, and being close enough to walk into a store and look at the wall remains the single best way we learn what is actually selling and what is sitting.
For everyone else the geography does something more practical. Most of the northeast is one or two day ground transit from our dock, so New England, the mid Atlantic and the eastern seaboard reach parcel delivery quickly and inexpensively. National parcel and less than truckload freight coverage extends from there to the rest of the continental United States, with full truckload available for store rollouts and larger program buys. Buyers in the New York metropolitan area can arrange will call pickup at our location by appointment during business hours.
Beyond the domestic map we run consolidated container programs for export buyers. Our declared service area is United States, with export programs across North America, the Caribbean, Latin America and West Africa. Export orders travel with commercial documentation, a packing list and preshipment inspection with photo verification, and we coordinate directly with your named freight forwarder rather than handing you a pallet and wishing you luck.
Warehouse and office
Valley Stream, NY 11508
United States
Business hours
- Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM ET
- Saturday, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM ET
- Sunday, closed
Service area
United States, with export programs across North America, the Caribbean, Latin America and West Africa
Get started
Talk to the people who actually pick your order
Send a product list, a competitor invoice or a photo of your accessory wall. You will get a written quote with landed pricing, case counts and lead times inside one business day, from a named contact rather than a ticket queue.