Three mistakes that most buyers commonly made while sourcing from China

1, Each order asks too many suppliers
Typically, the best suppliers are those with whom you’re in touch during the initial purchasing process. Some buyers often send their request to the first supplier, asking for a price, and then send it to three or more suppliers again. The process is just like the picture below:

However, this means that many suppliers work for you on only one order; they spend a lot of time creating a plan and calculating the cost, only to have you make the decision to buy from only one of them. They’re not machines, they’re human. Good supplier numbers are in minimal quantity. On your first time purchasing, you wasted a considerable amount. Finally, you’ll have no suppliers. 

2, Not bargain price

Mostly suppliers would give the rock-bottom price when a new customer asking for a quotation, they know the competition, if the price can do, great, let’s close the deal! However, sometimes the cost can be extremely high, so most buyers would stop communicating with the supplier altogether. A high price could be due to a higher quality standard, as different companies target their products to various markets. Why not ask and continue? Bargain for a price you can accept. If you’re looking for other suppliers, you will spend more time.

3. Always find end producers

If businesses exist, then middlemen exist; producers, traders, and distributors are a whole unit. If all end buyers only buy from the end producers, then most of the time, you’re waiting, because they don’t have the manpower or time to manage all buyers. Traders are important role balancing the production between factories, between quality and prices, if you get prices from factories directly, usually will get very high or very low prices, but from a trader, it’s balanced, they’ll remove the high price. Additionally, they will stop at the lowest prices; it's easy to think that the highest price you won’t accept is of bad quality. They would send orders to those idle factories to facilitate earlier delivery, so you can sell it in due time. If you’re waiting for the busiest factory to produce your goods, possibly until next year, your goods may not be sent out.