Category: RFQ
Don’t Let These Reasons Cause You to Drop a Good Supplier
Don’t drop a good supplier over trivial reasons. Buyers, from the novice to the experienced,...
Tips to Get Suppliers to Care About Your Price Request
From private label to sourcing for other industries, a common concern for new buyers is “how...
Specifications Need Explanation
Imagine you’re in the China factory that you want to order from. Chinese factory,...
Quote & Order Monitoring Around China Holiday Season
Around the Lunar New Year holiday, tis the season for uncertainty and large margins of error when...
Timing Before and After the Chinese New Year
This time of year, post Christmas holiday and prior to the Chinese New Year holiday, morphs into a...
More Considerations on Importing Promo Products
The majority of promo product orders are smaller runs (200 pens, 500 ball caps, etc). These are...
Quantity, Quantity Scales and MOQ
Here are some refreshers on your quantity request when sending in inquiries to vendors in China...
Quoting a Product: When Specs are For Reference or Confirmed
You’ve sent the supplier a concept for your product and now they’re quoting a concept....
Reasons Your Quoted Price Changes
Many times in China sourcing, during the sampling and pre-order steps, the quoted price goes up....
Buyer Sourcing Approach: Read My Mind and Do it Right!
A large portion of sourcing and product development is tackled from the position of “Read my...
About Jacob
For 17 years, I’ve worked in China manufacturing. This blog is about sourcing, RFQ's, order control and logistics. I lived in China from ’01 to ’12 and now on the North Carolina coast. I continue to work in China imports, private label and learning FBA and ecommerce.
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