WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR

There is a large number of “fly-by-night” companies and fraudulent individuals claiming to be legitimate suppliers. Here are the two categories you need to guard against: 1. Entities whose sole aim is to pique your interest, get you to enter into a transaction with them – and then disappear with your money. These unscrupulous companies give you nothing, except for a very bad taste for Chinese business practices and a loss of your investment. With such cases it can be almost impossible to recover your payment, especially if it was sent from outside Mainland China as the individuals behind these companies can be almost impossible to track in a country of 1.3 Billion people. This is true even if the “supplier” didn’t send you any goods. 2. Companies that do exist and who will send you products upon receipt of your payment. The problem is these goods are substandard and not at all representative of the samples you received or specifications the company advertised. These companies enjoy increased profit margins as a result of furnishing such inferior products. Not only that but they can defend themselves by proving they delivered goods through relevant paperwork. They then hide behind non-existent or unenforceable contracts written in English.