Originally Posted by annies.Knicknack (Post 12724)

Hi everyone,

There's always a risk in buying things frm China espeically when you just see pics to order. Many claims that they are manufacturer but it's not true. If you visit china ebay, taobao etc..u can see hundreds of seller having the same pictures. But you read very carefully because some of them will mark in their remarks that all their merchadise are copied. The original ones will put original. that's where you can see the prices varies from 15 to 40 for a dress of the same deisgn.

Everything from China are very cheap but qlty is the mean issue. I've been buying from china many years now & to be frank, i have not met any problems except on the qty but they are happy to replace because the payment will not be release untill i cfm everything's right. When you have a long term relation with the supplier, it's makes your transaction & all much easier but i have to say that you need to go to the right one.Check their ratings & customer's feedback. Real Sellers are afraid of complains & they provide good services.

Anyway, you pay higher price for better qlty and that's all i can say..just be very carefull when chosing suppliers from China..buy samples from them first if you can.:thanx:

Originally Posted by etan79 (Post 13728)

H Annie,
can enlighten me how to pay upon delivery? coz these China suppliers always request me to pay upfront...any tips to share ?

Originally Posted by etan79 (Post 13728)

H Annie,
can enlighten me how to pay upon delivery? coz these China suppliers always request me to pay upfront...any tips to share ?

Originally Posted by CheapoKia (Post 14579)

If you dont have contacts in china, its very difficult for you to COD. As for me i have friend own a shipping company in china. I am paying 5% extra for the COD service base on item value. I usually ship back once a month so i dont know the price for air incase you want to ask :D

China has tons of cheats than you can ever imagine. Even when im in china they try to pack other sizes/designs other than what i ordered right infront of me. So i would say the 5% well paid to my friend :)

What annies.Knicknack is doing i suppose is using alipay to pay supplier on taobao. Merchant will send the items over to you before you complete the payment on alipay.

Take note: You have 7 days to stop the payment or it would be auto release to merchant.



The downside is that you need a china bank account before you can use alipay to pay merchant. If you always get china products, my humble opinion is to go down to any part of china and get a icbc bank account. You need to deposit 1k rmb i tink and your passport thats all. You can get them to issue you a internet banking usb auth device.

If you need help drop me a PM, i see how can i advise you further :)

Yay my 1st post.