Sourcing from China fails in the same place every time: nobody has seen the thing. We are in Huaqiangbei, the market is a walk from the desk. You point at what you want, we go and get it, and it comes back to you with the photographs and the price actually paid.
You name the product. We walk into the market, buy it, photograph it, and ship it to you.
Most sourcing starts with one question: is this thing actually what the listing says it is. Online you cannot answer it. We can, because the markets are a walk from the office.
We buy the item at the counter, photograph it as it comes out of the box, note the stall, the asking price and what the seller claims, and ship it. You get the object and the evidence, not a product page.
If the item is wrong, you have lost the price of one sample instead of the price of a container.
What a category actually costs this week, from the stalls, with photographs.
Prices published online are asking prices for strangers. The price in the market moves weekly and depends on who is standing at the counter.
A report covers one category: who sells it, what they quote, what stock looks like, what the photographs show. It is a record of a visit on a date, not an aggregation of listings.
Buyers use it to argue a price they already have, or to find out whether a category is worth entering at all.
Before you wire money: does this supplier exist, and is the factory theirs.
A trading company presenting itself as a factory is the most common and most expensive misunderstanding in China sourcing.
Verification is carried out by Go4QC, the inspection company behind this service: business licence, registered scope, the address on the licence compared with the address you were given, and a visit where a visit is warranted.
You get a finding, with what was checked and what could not be.
Consolidation and freight out of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, through ChinaXGo.
Once the goods are right, they have to leave. Consolidation of several suppliers into one shipment, export out of Shenzhen or Hong Kong, and the paperwork that goes with it, handled by ChinaXGo.
For sellers shipping order by order, the same route carries single parcels under your own label.
A link, a photo, a model number, or a sentence. If it is sold in Huaqiangbei, that is usually enough to find it.
In the market, at the counter. You are told what was found, what it costs there, and what the seller claims.
Nothing is purchased until you say so. If what we found is not what you meant, it costs you nothing but the time.
The item, the photographs, the stall, the price paid. Keep the file; it is what you negotiate with next time.
Tell us what you are looking for. One item is a fine place to start — it is the cheapest way to find out whether we are useful to you.