Thread: China Importer - are really great business?

Did You have any experience in that way of cash making?

sites like alibaba.com, alliexpress.com , chinabuye.com even ebay! and many other give the possibility to buying cheaper and selling fro higer price almost every product.

Many of them are secured by escrow and similar services, so basically all sounds great right?

• For me the greatest two problem was:
• finding profitable product
• transport (and tax)

Ofcourse not including other internal things like: marketing for product, making market for product, guarantee returns or safe storage


I spend many of time to search extremally cheap product for fun, but today I think about this more seriously.
I talk about transport and tax witch sellers - beacose DHL plane 2days services is extremally high they fid me offer for 13$ per kg (``1,5 pound) by DHL shipping. I afraid to transport any other way like china air mail
Tax - meaby its no problem beacose almost all of tax are included to the price, but I know some of product have additional tax. Sellers promise me all the product up to 1000pc can be send as a "gift" but my lawyer tell me something other - I dont have any experience with this yellow faced ninjas so please give me You opinion

So, did You have any experience in this case?
Thanks

For export and import business China is really great place, I would say.

Really need to know what you are looking for as there are a lot od scammer there. Even the legit businesses will try and scam as it is part of their culture to get as much business as possible. I was scammed by a few companies who had all the necessary documents to prove they were real.... but as we know, anyone can use Photoshop and make things look real.

IMHO you need to have a real contact living there if you want to make large and serious buisness. I wouldn't trust anyone when we talk about bigger amount of money. But yeah , you can make pretty good buisness there.

First you should try importing some products you like in small quantities and preferably from the verified members as they seems more trustworthy. Then you can check if the products they offers and the one you get are same (to avoid gets cheated).

Originally Posted by Dektole

First you should try importing some products you like in small quantities and preferably from the verified members as they seems more trustworthy. Then you can check if the products they offers and the one you get are same (to avoid gets cheated).

I heard many times that they send decent quality with first orders , after they gain some trust they start sending sh*t..

Anybody have REAl experience? "heared" info brings nothing to the conversation.

This is old post, finally I import some stuff with no problem, I use ESCROW to secure trasaction ofc
Small order, small profits - but "china import buisiness" still looks profitable, probably I order something else in future.
But today I found import company in my city what give me good prices -after deducting transport and tax - its more profitable option.


So i cant beliew to somebody can be "scamed" using this type security.

About ESCROW transacions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escrow

Anybody needs someone for real goods and not phantom goods then give me a shout.

I think the idea of Dektole will really help to import from china. But it is also true that the exporters send A class quality products. So be careful and try the idea of Dektole. Good Luck

Originally Posted by Dektole

First you should try importing some products you like in small quantities and preferably from the verified members as they seems more trustworthy. Then you can check if the products they offers and the one you get are same (to avoid gets cheated).

I think you are talking about dropshipping business or wholesale. The transport and the tax is counted with the products price. If you are a dropshipper, you only find the buyer and then contact the the manufacturer to send the product to the buyer. Of course, if you had received the payment.
The hardest part is find the good wholesalers, because there are many scammers in this business.

There is a lot of variables involved with importing from China. Whether your product is faulty, price of import tax etc. As a few have already said, there is big business in scamming westerners.

Regarding foreign trade along with implication business China and taiwan is actually great place,

Originally Posted by stronywwwlublin

Did You have any experience in that way of cash making?

sites like alibaba.com, alliexpress.com , chinabuye.com even ebay! and many other give the possibility to buying cheaper and selling fro higer price almost every product.

Many of them are secured by escrow and similar services, so basically all sounds great right?

• For me the greatest two problem was:
• finding profitable product
• transport (and tax)

Ofcourse not including other internal things like: marketing for product, making market for product, guarantee returns or safe storage


I spend many of time to search extremally cheap product for fun, but today I think about this more seriously.
I talk about transport and tax witch sellers - beacose DHL plane 2days services is extremally high they fid me offer for 13$ per kg (``1,5 pound) by DHL shipping. I afraid to transport any other way like china air mail
Tax - meaby its no problem beacose almost all of tax are included to the price, but I know some of product have additional tax. Sellers promise me all the product up to 1000pc can be send as a "gift" but my lawyer tell me something other - I dont have any experience with this yellow faced ninjas so please give me You opinion

So, did You have any experience in this case?
Thanks