Do I really need to visit China for buying?

When people are planning to buy something like building materials, furniture, clothes, household items for business. There is option to buy locally, like a shops operated by local businessman, or buy in a Chinese Dragon Mall. You are able to discover some good price items locally and might still wonder if you can get better price direct from China? If you are buying building materials for your house, do you really need to visit China and buy from here? Can I get better price if I visit China? Today let’s share with you the difference for buying from local and buying from China.

More design available

If you are visiting China, you will easily discover much more design here in the market. As the local importer in your country can not bring too many different design due to the cost and selling risk, so you can not have much options if you buy from local. While in the market in China, you can easily see a lots of different design in one supplier. Normally one supplier will try to collect as many as possible, as they don’t need to worry about any selling risk. What they put in their shop is just a sample, if there is an order then we will just make a new order. If you can see satisfy design in one supplier here, then next supplier you will see much more options.

Here in the market, there are many suppliers for the same item. For example in the sanitary market, there are more than 50 suppliers inside. So you can have a BIG selection here. Too much more options than your local market.

More different quality

For your local importer, in order to make the selling price competitive, they would prefer to bring the low quality or medium quality from here. Then make the low quality to sell at a competitive price there, while the medium quality to sell at top quality price. If they bring top quality from here, then the selling price in local market could be unaffordable.

In China, its very common for medium quality product with competitive price. Even for high quality items, the price still to be affordable. Low quality product here, the price could be cheap.

People used to consider medium quality to be good quality in their local market. While in the market in China, its quite common for medium to high quality at a reasonable price. If you are looking to buy very good quality with affordable price, then you are suggested to visit China.

Flexible customization

Your local importer can not give you too much options for customization, as they already bought the stock and what you can do is choose from what they have. However, they can not bring as much as they can, they can only bring the most hot sales stock, to reduce their selling risk.

While buy directly in China, you can choose from a lots of options for customization. For example, if you want to buy a leather sofa but you do not like the stock color, then you can choose from more than 40 colors. See below picture for color card. You just choose the right color you want, then the supplier will make the color you want. Here not all the supplier can accept customization for quantity.

Competitive price

Here there are lots of suppliers in the market, so here the competition is much bigger than your local market. In your local market, there maybe only 2~3 sellers for same items, some place only 1 sellers. But here there is 20~30 sellers or even 50 sellers. So at such high competition, one seller here can not make a high price as the client is easy to check and compare.

Also, here there are many factories, price from the factory will be the most competitive.

So we can see that, if you want to see more design for a better selection, want better quality on the same cost or need flexible customization to make your house more special, then its suggested for you to come China to visit the market here.

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3 Comments

Chris says:

25/09/2019 at 17:50

Hello,
I am looking to start a business importing salt based items to New Zealand.
Things like salt blocks,salt shot glasses, salt graters etc.
Do you think your company could help with these type of goods?
Chris

Edgar says:

30/10/2019 at 09:47

Good morning.
My name is Edgar and I own a small trading company in Costa Rica, Central America.
We usually buy closed containers directly from factories in China for my customers.
Now we are expanding our business and that is why we want to reach smaller buyers here.
There are local customers who need to buy between 4 and 6 different products and consolidate them in a single container.
That is why I am writing to you because it is very difficult for me to carry out these search, quality verification and find companies that sell smaller quantities.
If you think you can help me, send me an email with the conditions and costs of your services.

Ashlee Bal says:

27/11/2019 at 14:23

Good Evening,
My name is Ashlee Bal, I am looking for a China Export Agent to import goods into Newcastle, NSW Australia.
We will be importing kitchen, laundry and bathroom cabinetry, in addition to sanitary ware. We would also like to consider importing wood doors, Gavalume corrugated roofing metal and insulation in the same container. This will be our first China import.
We have already sourced multiple quotes from manufacturers in the Guangzhou region for cabinetry, however would like some assistance ensuring we get the best price, quality and purchase from legitimate factories.
A few questions for you:
– do you have experience and knowledge of Australian standards?
– what is your rate, and what is included/excluded?
– what are your payment terms?
– do you have a warehouse for consolidating goods, and where is it located?
– are you happy reveal suppliers details that you bring to us (will you allow us to communicate directly with suppliers where required?)
– do you have the capacity to provide a single consolidated commercial invoice?
Although we would like to eventually visit China, we prefer not to at this stage as we are only sourcing building materials. We are looking for export agent to assist us in supplier vetting, consolidation and shipping.
I look forward to hearing from you on Monday.
Kind Regards,
Ashlee Bal