Being Cautious When Buying Product From Any Company

Hi Lawrence,

I am cautious with almost any company out there, so naturally, I am cautious with this one also.

Here is the owners of the website.. They are Chinese as they claim, which is a good sign.. Avoid any Nigerians(Africa) or Eastern European companies.. Russian, Ukraine, etc.

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?whoistoken=0

I have bought several times from a couple Chinese companies and most are honest, in the aspect that they will not scam you and not send you product.

But, the Chinese do have a tendency of quality issues..

So, you likely do not have to worry about someone scamming you out of your money, but you might have product come that is not the exact quality they mentioned..

WHAT I WOULD DO:

1. I would buy a "sample" from them. Tell them you are willing to pay for a couple different items to see the quality and if its good, you will buy a larger amount.

2. Once it arrives check it over.. Consider if it is the quality they advertised and consider that they sent you one of their best ones..

3. If all is well, make a bigger buy..

NOTE: I would like to mention, though, that their website has a lot of product, which most Chinese companies do not have.. They generally do not have a ton of brand name product like this.. So, I am a bit leary.

How did you come about this website? Alibaba.com or an email?

If by email, I would be more cautious and ask for more details about the company and maybe ask for a phone number to talk to someone who speaks english.

If by Alibaba, is it a Gold member or is there a phone number on the listing? I would call first.. I noticed a lot of the tricksters have "fake" phone numbers.. That is one of the fastest giveaways.. They will have a phone number to a bar instead of their own house.. Or, someone who has no clue who they are and has been getting called like 20 times about this ad on alibaba.com..

Just check from every angle.. Look at it this way.. If they have good prices and all is well, you have a killer source.. So, you want to prove the source is good first and not just hop on the bandwagon without looking..

BUYING FROM CHINA:

The bigger buy can be shipped for cheaper by using sea freight and train when it arrives to the USA and then picking it up at a local warehouse you have it shipped to..

This is how I did it.. You can save a ton on bigger shipments by using sea/train rather than air/semi..

LOOKING OVER THEIR PRICES:

Looks pretty good from what I saw.. You want to make atleast DOUBLE what you paid.

Tom Tom Go 910:

http://search-completed.ebay.com/TOM-TOM-GO-910_W0QQcatrefZC6QQcoactionZcompareQQcoentrypageZsearchQQcopagenumZ1QQfisZ2QQfromZR32QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ3QQsacatZQ2d1QQsaprchiZQQsaprcloZQQsbrsrtZd

$320 on the website..

Tom Tom Go 300:

http://search-completed.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&catref=C6&from=R10&satitle=TOM+TOM+GO+300&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&bs=Search&fsop=3%26fsoo%3D2&fgtp=&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=46835&fis=2&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=

$205 on the website..

Sincerely

Tony

Lawrence Unger <ungerebay@aaaa.com> wrote:

Hello,

I found the following site regarding purchasing wholesale electronics. Since you are more experienced with this stuff can you check out the site and comment on it legitimacy, basically if it is a good source or not?

http://www.db898.com

Thank you
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Date: Jul 12, 2006 4:52 PM
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To: Godrules_NET <billjohnstone1983@gmail.com>

I went on the sites listed and requested info. Some I have yet to hear back. But amlinc.com and 1liquidators.com sent me info on merchandise way overpriced. Items was either outdated from the 90s at their price back when they were knew. It was completely pointless. Any suggesstion on where to find electronic,ipod, videogame or cpu related goods. Dont worry I am not planning to sell guitars.

Anything that would help wpuld be greatly appreceiated.

Thank you

On 7/11/06, Godrules_NET < billjohnstone1983@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi.

There are MANY good places to buy, far better than alibaba.com .

http://www.saledaddy.com/memberspro/email_february-06_14.htm

There is a list of 5 in the above link:

will tell you some wholesalers..

FIRST, I will just give you a list of several here..

http://www.jdcloseouts.com/

http://www.tdwcloseouts.com/about.html

http://www.amlinc.com/productlisting/

http://www.closeoutstrading.com/HTM_electronics/BS_electronics.htm

http://www.1liquidators.com/pallets.htm

There are so many.. But, before you buy, send me what you are thinking about buying..

Basically, you can get the items generally for about 30% of wholesale. If they do not list the items on the pallet, do not buy it.. Also, if it is more than 30% of wholesale by a good amount, do not buy..

The best thing to do is to call these companies and get on their email list.. Then, they will send you emails with the latest pallets of goods.. Anything that is name brand is generally good game and you can confirm its value on eBay by looking at the "completed items" history on eBay..

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Basically, you can get the items generally for about 30% of wholesale. If they do not list the items on the pallet, do not buy it.. Also, if it is more than 30% of wholesale by a good amount, do not buy..

The best thing to do is to call these companies and get on their email list.. Then, they will send you emails with the latest pallets of goods.. Anything that is name brand is generally good game and you can confirm its value on eBay by looking at the "completed items" history on eBay..

----- Original Message -----

From: Lawrence Unger

To: billjohnstone1983@gmail.com

Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 10:08 PM

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Hello,

Basically the info I would like is how to automate E-mails and feed backs.

Also where can I find discounted good outside of Alibabe, etc.

I also have a question regarding a test sale I am doing. I list it following some techniques you have on our site and implemented some of my own but when I do a category search to find it it is not listed and i can only find it thru my user id. Have you ever experienced this before? I tried from another PC and still the same. Anything you can tell me to calrify this would be much appreciated.

Thank you

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