what protection should i take here for preventing scamming

check their legal documents issued by their government and verify it with their embassy in your country,,

1. See if the company you want to deal with is: real; registered; has a company account; addresses and numbers are correct and traceable; is authorized to sell the products they offer and is authorized to sell to you in your country.

2. Do involve a third party inspector on your behalf. Ask him (or her) to visit your partner before you make a deal, and provide supervision during production, packaging, loading and during goods release to the forwarder.

3. Never use any payment method which is not for companies (WU, Moneygram, T/T to personal accounts).

4. Learn about the products and the market you want to deal with. See what are the real prices and quantities on the market. This way you can filter out suspicious offers which are too cheap and deliver you at too low MOQs.


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what protection should i take here for preventing scamming


Please read my post MY experiences at Alibaba you will find the same under our name and also read the Alibaba sfae trading manual.


I am copying my whole post here for your benefit

My experiences at Alibaba

I have been a member at this business site and i am grateful for the education it has given me, Looking at the way some have been scammed, i must consider myself lucky.

I read all that was to read before i could go online and shortlist  prospective suppliers.

a Lot of sellers selling identical products and passing it off as though they are manufacturers when in fact they are traders.

A lot of times i have received quotations that were exact copies from at least four suppliers and i did not waste my time trying to find which were genuine.

There was a strange case where a hardware dealer send me a quotation for wind turbines and the prices he quoted were fantastic and i began to build hopes that this could be a golden egg, but when searching him about i found out that he deals in padlocks.

I received 52 enquires from suppliers for a particular product. I send them a data sheet ans asked them to send me the technical details as per my format and to send it to me in PDF. you would be suprised that only 13 came back to me. I some cases they would excuse themselves and say that they are awaiting for their boss to give details.

There was an excellent way that i could seerate the chaff from the wheat, i would engage in lengthy chats and web conferences along with asking for their registration and trade licences and standard certification if they possesed any to be sent to me. along with something i am not going to share.

This cut down my mail from a high 15 to 25 a day to just 25 a week.

Well when at times i was about to order samples a strange habit of these would be asking me to sent money by WU or TT in a personal name. which was strange.

A lot of Guys out here masquerade as girls and you have to be able to catch the tell tale signs.

Strange working hours for employees also should raise a RED flag.