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Top ten dumb things overseas customers do when buying & sourcing from China

Roger — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:16:39 +0000

For all the complaining about poor quality or shoddy suppliers, we often forget that customers themselves are often equally as much at fault. From their inability to communicate needs to their unwavering belief that it should be a certain way (even if the reality is its often not), for every five bad suppliers there is at least [...]

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Buying from China – The customer is NOT always right.

Roger — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:40:31 +0000

Having been both involved in the past with furniture sourcing and buying, and more recently operating a retail furniture store and factory (where I now must sell to those same types of furniture buyers), I suppose I can say I truly understand both perspectives. Though I must confess, that for the first time being the supplier, is [...]

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Apologize and I will give you the photo – more on dealing with local suppliers

Roger — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:54:11 +0000

In addition to Millstone Trading, one of ACF’s other specialties is collecting and restoring Chinese antique furniture and building Chinese antique reproductions. When a customer purchased a few cubic meters of product (less then a container load), they then requested the product be sent over to another supplier, also well known as a reputable [...]

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China’s furniture exporters face tough times amid global financial crisis

Roger — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:04:50 +0000

China furniture export woes (if video does not load click here for original video from Reuters) China’s furniture exporters face tough times amid global financial crisis is a post from: The ACF China Co - Millstone Trading

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Top ten reasons why your China side supplier may be clueless about the economy.

Roger — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:26:31 +0000

Supplier rings me today – complainingÂ I have not picked up my goods / nor paid for, goods we previously ordered back in the first quarter (nor placed any new orders recently). Now, normally I would have given him an earful – after all, these were goods which were not only a) delivered late, but [...]

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China’s Most Wanted Counterfeiter

Roger — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:32:32 +0000

I can’t remember where I saw this article on the web though apparently it was originally written for Time.com. It came out in January and I have been meaning to post it up here for quite some time, though only just getting around to it now. Much of what occurred seemed to echo my [...]

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Chinese suppliers/foreign customers – sleeping in the same bed but dreaming different dreams

Roger — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:37:21 +0000

There is a great Chinese saying “sleeping in the same bed but dreaming different dreams” (tong chuang, yi meng). I find it seems to apply to so many situations ranging anywhere from causal friends to long-term business relationships. I was reminded of this yet again on Friday afternoon. I jumped onto the light [...]

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Import Nightmares – Readers share their experiences when things go wrong

Roger — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:37:48 +0000

As any experienced importer can tell you, the logistics of transporting large quantities of product internationally across oceans, local borders and even more so through national customs, involves quite a lot effort. Things can go wrong. In fact, things frequently do go wrong. Customs can hold up your order, freight damage can occur due to [...]

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Three and a Half Kinds of Factories: Chinese factory profiles

Roger — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:33:34 +0000

There is a great article on the Silk Road International blog entitled “Three and a Half Kinds of Factories.” Purely Domestic. “Working with these factories can be both very rewarding and very frustrating. Usually they are excited about foreign business. They are willing to learn and they go out of their way to be [...]

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The pitfalls of China’s rough capitalism

Roger — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:53:06 +0000

Recently, I came across an excellent article on yahoo entitled “The pitfalls of China’s rough capitalism“which is noteworthy and worth commenting on. He just said he wasn’t too worried about the quality,” said Devereux, who declined the request. “They think: ‘Everything is made in China. Let’s just place an order over the phone.’” The article chronicles [...]

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