eBay

winsamemetal · ‎06-22-2017

Hello guys,

A little background:

I'm from Hong Kong and are manufacturer. We never went online to do any business before, therefore we started a new department to target online retailers on small quantity (very small quantity) on manufacturer pricing.

I have email and eBay message over 30 eBay sellers who sell similar product and only able get a few response.

It seems that there are too many fraud out there and people are too cautions to open up to real supplier like us.

Or people think manufacturer offer very small MOQ just too good to be true?

How could I get them the confident?

victorjunkman55 · ‎06-22-2017

All new sellers with no feedback have the same problem no matter where they live, Some buyers are shy from buying from brand new sellers. The best way is to maybe buy some low cost Items to get you some feedback, and see how this all works. Start small, and as your feedback grows, so should the value of your Items. Good Luck to you and Welcome to eBay.

bigmotormania · ‎06-22-2017

Where to start on this...

For one, it doesn't help you are from China. A lot of people get really salty over China because a lot of products from there (which often times are knock offs) are flooded into the market by the thousands, if not hundreds of thousands or even millions at extremely cheap prices, and Chinese sellers get a massive shipping discount because the their government subsidizes it, so U.S. (and probably in most other places) sellers have to pay a lot more to ship over 2 states than a chinese seller would to ship halfway across the planet.

Secondly, and this goes with the first, being a manufacturer from China probably isn't helping either, as there's a bad reputation there on account of the afformentioned issue with flooding the market with cheap knock offs. I think a fair few sellers would be very weary about putting their own reputation or even their entire account on the line for the off chance that what they are selling is a knock off.

Also if you are wanting to be a drop shipping supplier, a fair few people have a lot of beef with drop shipping, even though it is an acceptable business method, it's not necessarily the best and most certainly not the most reliable, and eBay policy is that you need to inform the buyer of the location of the item, and you cannot do that, at least not honestly, when your from, for instance, Illinois, but the items you sell are being shipped from Hong Kong.

I think there's a lot of factors that go into the problem you are having with people not wanting to make supplier contracts with you, and a lot of it is distrust caused by their business being disrupted by other, less reputable and less trustworthy Chinese sellers.

Just my two cents, hope this clarified why you may be having some of these issues.

Bigmotormania

bigmotormania · ‎06-22-2017

@victorjunkman55 wrote:
All new sellers with no feedback have the same problem no matter where they live, Some buyers are shy from buying from brand new sellers. The best way is to maybe buy some low cost Items to get you some feedback, and see how this all works. Start small, and as your feedback grows, so should the value of your Items. Good Luck to you and Welcome to eBay.

I think they are trying to become a supplier for sellers, but not be a seller themselves.

That's what I took from it, anyway.

Bigmotormania

lintbrush* · ‎06-22-2017

Many sellers are actively searching for suppliers. They might buy some inventory from eBay. They might have another wholesale source.

Because there are too many scams where alleged suppliers scam new sellers out of a lot of money, cold calling contact is not the way to go here.

You would need to seek avenues which would give you exposure as a wholesaler.

d-k_treasures · ‎06-22-2017

@bigmotormania wrote:
@victorjunkman55 wrote:
All new sellers with no feedback have the same problem no matter where they live, Some buyers are shy from buying from brand new sellers. The best way is to maybe buy some low cost Items to get you some feedback, and see how this all works. Start small, and as your feedback grows, so should the value of your Items. Good Luck to you and Welcome to eBay.
I think they are trying to become a supplier for sellers, but not be a seller themselves.

That's what I took from it, anyway.

Me too. With a small minimum order quantity.

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copper.boom · ‎06-22-2017

@winsamemetal

I don't know what sort of products you are manufacturing, but I do know that a lot of people in the US would be cautious because US safety regulations can be very different than Chinese regulations. Some people also have quality & authenticity concerns.

I'm not saying your product is poor, but there is an overall cautious nature of US sellers who want to sell certain types of product and protect their selling accounts.

precision_ecu · ‎06-22-2017

1. Start your own internet store, charge 100% prices.

2. For Google (and other search engines) list on eBay / Bonanza / Amazon and others but charge 150%.

Your store = your rules. If buyer wants a middleman to cower his behind he has to pay 50% more that way you are covered waaaaay ahead of time for any returns and other issues.

That way you get the best of all.

Many stores you can open for free. eBay was great but 10 years ago. Most buyers will look for best deal by highlighting the item title on eBay and searching Google. If you have a store, it will come up.

Chaaa Ching :-).

Good luck.

xgoblazersx · ‎06-22-2017

I don't buy from China because there are many other issues besides quality, real/fake, and scamming. Getting all of your inventory, communication, and the time it takes to receive items along with the increased chance of the items damaged in shipping are all real. There are sites I order in the US where I can source clothing, shoes, and home/beauty items very cheaply and I reduce those other risks, I recently ordered from a site that was in Thailand. They went through a Chinese bank and there was no communication, two weeks later they still didn't ship, and I'm having to go through the hassle of a chargeback with my credit card company for a refund. You're going to meet a lot of resistance on here because of too many bad experiences.

goodluckselling · ‎06-22-2017

@winsamemetal wrote:
Hello guys,
A little background:
I'm from Hong Kong and are manufacturer. We never went online to do any business before, therefore we started a new department to target online retailers on small quantity (very small quantity) on manufacturer pricing.
I have email and eBay message over 30 eBay sellers who sell similar product and only able get a few response.
It seems that there are too many fraud out there and people are too cautions to open up to real supplier like us.
Or people think manufacturer offer very small MOQ just too good to be true?
How could I get them the confident?

I think you would do much better attending a wholesale trade show. You have dozens of them all year long throughout your country. Find out local info for this and attend one to learn or sign up as a licensed vendor.

You will gets tens of thousands of world wide businesses attending these events. Every large retailer in the US has product buyers who go there for the sole purpose of attaining products to sell.

This would be your best chance at immediate success with as little overhead as possible to acheive it.

Good Luck Selling!

duchess-at-speakeasy · ‎06-22-2017

Sending spammy e-mails to eBay sellers is a BIG NO-NO! Bad idea!

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xgoblazersx · ‎06-22-2017

It might do you well to sell some reseller lots. I had 6 video games I paid virtually nothing for from Best Buy that were on clearance. I lumped them together, all brand new in the shrink wrap, and listed them as a, "reseller's lot" on here. They sold quickly to another person re-selling them. Not everyone needs 100 of somehting except for a reseller. Try that.