Re: paying alibab supplier
fyi, how they handle your email address in China is not the same as in the West.
it is common to get spam / scam emails after contacting gold suppliers, even some with many years and verified. Some of the employees who do receive the official message you send via Alibaba to the supplier will share them with others.
What they do is, copy past your message from Alibaba in the email they send to you but the email address will not be from the company or alibaba. Also sometimes they use the link to the official supplier alibaba website in the signature.
So be careful, if the deal is too good to be true, ...... the rest you know.
Personally, I only deal with suppliers that accept paypal even if it is for sample or small order only. Usually for big orders they will insist in other payment options.
Plus the first few messages I will do within the alibaba system (or use the chat option), only later I will do it by normal email.
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