I am pretty tired of reading of about all of the problems people have. So here is how to avoid them.

1.) Know your products that you want to buy:
What are the raw materials / parts / grades at a minimum.
How the product is assembled; the cost of energy, tooling and labor.
What kind of packing you want. have the files in PDF at least.
Know logistics and customs costs.
This way you can calculate what you want to pay for it. then know the standards on the product.
Know your main critical quality problems that you think you will have.

2.) Make a plan about what you want to accomplish in terms of buying. A yearly purchase schedule, and know your acceptable payment terms.

Basically make sure you know exactly what you want to do before contacting the factory. Biggest problem buyers have is they do not want to take the time formulate a plan and are not prepared to buy the product they want.

3.) Research suppliers: make a list of potential suppliers. When talking to them ask this question before any other.
I want a business license faxed to me?
then I am going to visit or send someone to check your factory?
i want sales quotation signed and stamped with factory seal from the factory?

4.) When dealing above it is probably best to sleect a professional buying office / agent that is incorporated in china. What you need from them. Realize that they will want 5% to 10% of the product price + expense deposit. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GET GOOD SERVICE FOR FREE. Inspection / sourcing companies that offer 50USD for the day or by the man hour are not going to give you good service. If they do not know your products how can they inspect them and how do u know if the inspector is even remotely qualified.These are just scammers trying to take advantage. A good company knows how prevent and resolve issues after they have been discovered. BOTTOM LINE IS GOOD SERVICE COSTS AND YOU HAVE DEVELOP YOUR PLAN WITH THIS COMPANY AND IT TAKES TIME TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN CORRECTLY.
Ask for license?
Ask if they will provide transparent service? this means you preview and sign off on all purchase contracts prior to signing with factory.
Ask them for an agent contract that is signed and sealed with there company stamp? (This should state payment terms, services provided and dispute resolutions methods at a minimum)
remember you are sigining contracts with this company and not the factory. So this company is responsible for getting the goods for you and the factory is not responsible so you need an incredible amount of transperency / honest cooperation. And you need to have input into the contract drafting.
make sure this company has a lawyer.

5.) Make sure all contracts are china legal. If you are not able to do this then carefully select a professional buying agent / office. These can be trading companies, but most of the time they are foreign owned trading companies / offices.

6.) Focus on prevention: QC in production contract. test reports. actually testing what you buy before you buy it. QC'ing the product and rejecting replacing it before it ships. Again you will need a company to perform this service. make sure they are reliable and china legal.

6.) Prevention, prevention and prevention before your take legal possession of the products. verify that they are what you want before you buy and the factory or agency is that you have selected is doing what you want.

this requires at lesat one trip to china. Professional buying agent will save you a couple more trips to china if you are prepared. generally discuss with the buying agent to make sure your adequately prepared before coming with samples, drawings and your plan.

god i hope this helps some of you people to be better prepared. if you a question let me know

Replying to [Simond]: It seems that only the HongKong people, who were the Subject of UK not long ago are good at English

Replying to [Chinasolutions]:
ATTENTION ALL ALIBABA MEMBERS ..DO NOT USE
Xiamen Hongzhi Trading Co., Ltd. ..THEY ARE ON ALIBABA TO FRAUD PEOPLE ...THEY WILL TAKE YOUR MONEY AND NOT SEND YOU ANYTHING ...THEY ARE SCAMMERS ...ALIBABA WILL REMOVE THEM SOON ...DO NOT ORDER ANYTHING FROM THEM
I REPEAT XIAMEN HONGZHI CO LTD ..
THEY ARE ON ALIBABA TO SCAM PEOPLE ..
THEY HAVE STOLEN MONEY FROM MANY PEOPLE ..
MS LIZEN CAI ,SUE
ALL ARE INVOLVED IN THIS FRAUD .,..I DO NOT WANT THEM TO GET ANY MORE VICTIMS ...TY

Thanking you.


And with positive vibrations & Intuitions.

Hello  not sure if this is in the right place but here goes!

 

 

I am at the stage where I have seen some samples from a manufacturer in China , for childrens clothing, I know this company supplies a big U.S company.

I am unsure of what to do next , I have just sent over some of my designs ( slight tweek of the original design)

How do I go about signing a contract, do I become an agent ? do factories have a generic one they use?

And another question, how do I find out if they use any harmful chemilcals in their clothes....

 

thank you.

 

 

In fact ,a trading company is a good choice if you want to order a wide range of goods,they will search for the company with good quality and reasonable price .The trading company often don't charge much ,because now the price aroundworld are non-secretive ,it's difficult for them to live now ,they just make money by geting the tax back from the custom. We are wenzhou shengda import&export trade co.ltd. in China.Web:www.sd-auto-part.cn . Welcome to our website

lovehollyxx wrote:

Hello  not sure if this is in the right place but here goes!

 

 

I am at the stage where I have seen some samples from a manufacturer in China , for childrens clothing, I know this company supplies a big U.S company.

I am unsure of what to do next , I have just sent over some of my designs ( slight tweek of the original design)

How do I go about signing a contract, do I become an agent ? do factories have a generic one they use?

And another question, how do I find out if they use any harmful chemilcals in their clothes....

 

thank you.

 

 

bump!

hello i want to import electronics from china what do you suggest can you tell me some trustworthy companies??

such discussions are really helpful

I very interesed in to buy in pa tin da industrial co, but i don know if is scam.  Please. help me.

Is  ok send to personal account.

the mail say:

 

Dear Moises,
The account i gave you is our boss's account. Since the fee35usd is little money, just send to our personal account. If you send to our company account,will be a lot of procedures. Usually, the amount above 1000usd will need to send to our company account, any amount is less than 1000usd is suggested to send to our personal account, please understand.
 
Yous sincerely
Sonia
PA TIN DA INDUSTRIAL CO.,LTD
T: +86-020-38847640 / 38814384   
F: +86-020-38867281
Trade Manager: cgs_ptdmicrofiber
MSNRuifanfs@hotmail.com
Email: microfiber_wongy@yahoo.com.cn / kellygdcn@yahoo.com.cn
Website: http://www.microfiberchina.en.alibaba.com
       http://www.microfiberchina.com

You are good!