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Old 05-16-2008, 02:52 AM
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Default Why buy in China?

Hi, I have many customers in Spain (I'm Spanish) who want to buy in China. Most of them are no big companies and many of them are middleman.

In China of course, prices are very low, but:

To get lowest price you have to buy FCL
Freight costing is raising, raising, raising
Very long time for arriving goods,
too many times, when you open container, "surprise!!"
Need warehouse, often before you finish selling of the 10000 xxx you bought, euro/dolar/pound up and other importer bought cheaper or desing is obsolete.
goods are not homologate,
etc,
etc,
Near Madrid (suppose London, Paris, Admsterdam too) there is an old Industrial Area completely occupied by Chinese wholesalers. There, very often you can find some item than China almost same price, and only need to buy 6 units. So why buy in China?. More curious is in Chinese shopping centers goods are not the Chinese Brands, they are Wester Brands.
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