Hello all, I have found this forum to be quite valuable and I am hoping someone can help me out.

I am looking to purchase some goods from a Chinese manufcature and import them to Australia. The product in particular are chair covers and the prices I have been quoted are very cheap.

The problem I have is that I have no way of knowing if this company is real or if they are trying to scam me. I am hoping someone that can speak chinese telephone this company and ask a few questions to try and determine if they are in fact a genuine manufacturer of chair covers and other textiles. I have only been corresponding with them via email so far.

I'm happy to re-imburse you a couple of dollars for the cost of the phone call.

Any help would be appreciated.

Fr_Chuck

You will find most of these companies have english speaking employees or at least managemet, have you tried contacting them yourself.

Thomas1970

I'd agree with Chuck. Particularly if they are located in closer proximity with Hong Kong.
Nevertheless, a few basic terms from my fairly limited repertoire:

Ni Hao (Hello)
Xie Xie Ni (Thank you)
Gui Lo (White Devil -- a very derogatory term, likely meaning the transaction is on very shaky ground)

Good luck. Take care.

T'ang mu (Thomas)

george_s

thanks guys, i did try and phone them the other day, the person who answered appeared to speak very little english, he basically said to me "You email me instead".

So correspondance has just continued via email.

Fr_Chuck

The other thing I did, and it was some years ago, when our company was doing import export. We paid a girl from a local chinese restraunt come in and translate things for us. They worked very cheap

novoexpress

This is Charles Seymour of Novo Express International
Website is Novo Express International, Inc.
We have an office in SHANGHAI and we can ask them to verify the authenticity of your supplier
If you wish - please provide us with the information
We also have Chinese speaking staff in our San Francisco office.

eldon-shen

Dear George,

I would like to help you! I am in Shanghai,China,and I do business service for oversea buyer.And the call you asked is freeWould you like to contact me via my email:eldon@eldon-business-service.com and tell me the questions about the company?

tks!

B/R

Your Sincerely

Eldon Shen

cynthia forney

I would like to speak to you Mr. Eldon regarding chair covers also.
At the present time I have a company that I make purchases from in China. But, I am looking for another distributor.

cmlight

hello.
i'm a Chinese.
maybe i can do anything for help.
i've experience dealing with international trade of Chemicals, Auto parts. and Embroidery.
you may contact me by Email: .
i live in Zhejiang Provionce. and i wonder the where manufacturer you found located. Zhejiang? Guangzhou ? or? and if possiblely. the "cantonfair" will be on from 19 Apr.
if possible come to China, you surely will find what you want.
good luck!

cmlight

time of cantonfair "http://www.cantonfair.org.cn/cn/index.asp"

period 1: 2007-4---15-20
period 2: 2007-4---25-30