A photo
A picture from a shop, a trade show, a competitor's shelf, or your own phone.
Send us a photo. We will go and find it.
Being your agent in China means doing the part you cannot do from abroad: walking the market, standing in the factory, holding the product and arguing about the price.
Starting point
You do not need a specification. You need a starting point.
Any one of these is enough for us to begin. The rest is our job.
A link
A listing on Amazon, Alibaba, Ozon, Wildberries or anywhere else. We find who really makes it.
A sample
Post us the physical item and we will match it — material, size and finish.
A description
Just words. "A folding step stool that holds 150 kg" is a perfectly good brief.
Tell us the destination country and roughly how many you want. Those two facts change the answer more than anything else — they decide the freight, the duty and the MOQ.
The process
Eight stages, in this order, every time.
You are told where your order sits at each stage. Nothing moves to the next one without your approval.
Brief
You send the photo, link, sample or description, with the destination and target quantity. We reply the same working day with questions, if we have any.
Search
We identify the product and find who makes it — across the Yiwu market's stalls, our own factory network, and the industrial clusters around Zhejiang, Guangdong and beyond. If it means physically going to look, we go.
Vetting
Before we quote a supplier we check the business licence, the export history and whether they actually manufacture rather than resell. Marginal suppliers are dropped here, not after your deposit.
Quotation
We come back with the unit price, the MOQ, the lead time and — if you want it — the landed cost at your door including freight and duty. Usually from more than one supplier, so you can see the trade-off.
Samples
We order samples, open and inspect them in our office, and courier them to you. If the first one is wrong, we go back and get it right before anything is committed to production.
Order & production
You approve a sample and confirm. We place the orders, pay the suppliers in RMB, and chase the production line so the dates hold. You get progress updates rather than silence.
Inspection & consolidation
Goods come to our Yiwu warehouse. We count them, check them against your approved sample, photograph and film them, and repack anything that will not survive the journey. Every supplier's goods merge into one shipment here.
Export & delivery
We clear the goods for export, book the space, and send you the documents and tracking. From there it is a date in your calendar rather than a worry.
Quality control
You see your goods before they leave China.
The single most expensive mistake in importing is finding out about a defect after the container has arrived. At that point you have already paid for the goods, the freight and the duty — and your recourse is a phone call to another continent.
So we check at the point where it is still cheap to fix: in our warehouse, before loading. If something is wrong, it goes back to the supplier while your money is still in play.
- Quantity check — every carton counted against the packing list.
- Sample match — the goods compared against the sample you approved.
- Function test — a sampled proportion actually switched on and used.
- Photo & video report sent to you before we load.
- Packing check — we repack anything too weak for the transit.
- Rejection — defective lots go back to the supplier, not into your container.
Inspection record
Example
- Reference
- RKY-2617
- Cartons
- 248 / 248 counted
- Sample match
- Pass
- Function test
- 32 units · 0 fail
- Rejected
- 6 cartons · returned
- Repacked
- 14 cartons reinforced
- Media
- 61 photos · 3 videos
Released for loading once you have seen the report and said yes.
Why Yiwu
The reason this works is where we sit.
Yiwu is not a convenient address — it is the reason the service is possible at all.
The world's largest small-commodities market
Roughly 75,000 stalls across five districts, selling almost every small manufactured good on earth. Walking it takes days. We do that so you do not have to.
Two hours from Ningbo
One of the busiest container ports in the world sits on our doorstep, which is why small shipments do not sit around waiting for space.
Factory country
Zhejiang and the neighbouring provinces are dense with manufacturers. Most factories we buy from are a day trip from the office — so a site visit is routine.
75,000
Market stalls in Yiwu
2 hrs
To Ningbo port
From 1 CBM
Minimum shipment
1
Invoice, however many suppliers
What do you want us to find?
A photo and a destination country is all we need to give you a real price.