How to source for authentic suppliers from China through Alibaba.

After being in China for almost 4 years building a drop shipping business within china, I have accumulated a tone of experience upon buying and re-selling products, spotting good quality and authentic products from the replicas, also identifying REAL/DIRECT manufacturers from other re-sellers and middlemen.

The whole idea of re-selling and drop shipping  is actually getting or buying products for a much lower price with the intention of selling them with a decent profit.

When it comes to re-selling and drop shipping there is nothing more important than finding a good supplier/manufacturer because they are the ones controlling the product’s raw materials cost, product quality, packaging, shipping and almost everything also they are the ones who can make or break your business.

If you want to start a re-selling business or a drop shipping business whether you are a drop shipper anywhere in the world and you’re expecting to import products from china please make sure you go through this, why..? Because there are millions of products and millions of suppliers you can find in china whether B2B sourcing platforms such as Alibaba or offline such as the Fairs but not all of them are direct manufacturers, there are plenty of re-sellers and middlemen who are ready to take a cut out of your profits.

Am going to help you with very simple four (4) steps to follow which will help you to reach to the REAL manufactures and suppliers.

SHOPPING GUIDE

🚫 Do not waste time on Price

🚫 Do not waste time on MOQ

✅ Shopping for Suppliers vs. Products

✅ Shopping for Quality vs. Price

✅ Negotiate Price and MOQ

What differentiates the rookies from the pros is that when rookies look for products on B2B sourcing platforms such as Alibaba or Aliexpress  they immediately jump on price and MOQ but pros won’t do that, they won’t waste time doing that because right now we are shopping for Suppliers, we are shopping for quality then when we find good suppliers who can produce good quality products we can ALWAYS negotiate the price and MOQ.

🔰For example;

If you’re looking for the YOGA MAT on Alibaba there will be over 109,708 products listing but if you searched and sort by Suppliers there will be around 980 suppliers selling these 109,708 products and out of 980 Suppliers there are only 287 Suppliers that are 

🔰Gold

🔰Assessed, and with 

🔰Trade Assurance. 

What does that mean? for the Gold Suppliers there is the paid membership and Assessed Supplier means either the Alibaba team or a third party company have been to the factory audited the company and verified their factory due exist and the trade Assurance is a free service offered by Alibaba if you purchase and the order is not produced to the specifications that you  agreed with the manufacturer then you can refund payment through Alibaba.

Now let’s go through the four (4) simple steps on how to qualify these remaining 287 Suppliers to find your business partners.