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.

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

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)

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.

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 restaurant come in and translate things for us. They worked very cheap

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Originally Posted by george_s

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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by george_s

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.

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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 free:)Would you like to contact me via my email:[email protected] and tell me the questions about the company?

Tks!

B/R

Your Sincerely

Eldon Shen

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Originally Posted by 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 free:)Would you like to contact me via my email:[email protected] and tell me the questions about the company?

tks!

B/R

Your Sincerely

Eldon Shen

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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.

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: [email protected].
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!

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

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

Hi, Mr george_s
I'm Chinese and willing to help you to make the phone to investigate if it is truth.
I think sometimes a very cheap offer is not a exciting thing for you, that makes you hard to believe?
Anyway, if you need help in China, contact me at [email protected]

Thank you for the replies people, sorry for not replying to anyone sooner. As it turns out I did place and order and received the goods without any drama's.
If anyone knows of other genuine and cost comepetive texttile factories in china I'd be interested too!

If you want to purchase textile products, I suggest you go to SUZHOU and CHANGSHU in Jiangsu Province of China, there're a lot of textile factories. I believe you'll find what you want there.
I only deal with truck spare parts, if you need that I can provide you more info.

Dear friend
Hope you are all well
You could refer to some reliable manufacturers located in Guangdong.and in Suzhou,most of the suppliers is for raw materials of textile,same as in shaoxin,zhejiang province.
Regarding the trustworthiness of the suppliers,frankly it's not easy to conclude from just some published information,so my personal advice is that if your first order is not big,why don't try from some auction site with feedbacks,that will make you feel more safe regarding the seller's trustworthiness. And if your order is a little big,you could also use some service to help you verify the supplier from China.

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