Fob Sourcing

But how can you be sure that you are getting the best possible price and the best possible quality? Quite often you are talking to trading companies on Alibaba who claim they are the factory, maybe they are just the intermediary who add the profit on your cost to earn their money. Even if you are dealing directly with factories, communicate with Chinese suppliers is often a slow and difficult process, because they are cultural differences, language barriers and big time differences, but the biggest risk of all is supplier maybe deliver you bad quality products, even if the first sample they sent was great. Here is no returning bad products in China, no resource for your lost money. You will be stuck in bad quality products, expensive shipping and your money will gone for goods.