invince | 04-09-2013 09:39 PM | Hi I'm from Hong Kong and always buy in Alibaba/ Taobao (it's Chinese B2C site).
For Alibaba, the standard of suppliers vary. You may want to choose suppliers who pay annual fee to Alibaba, they are more trustworthy (the fee is around 4000USD per year). So they must be big suppliers. Try ask to pay via Paypal. For smaller quantities you may want to try aliexpress, same as above, the only difference is that it's more standardized in price and shipping fees, you have less bargaining power.
One footnote here, if you do wholesale purchase, sometimes the price in Taobao is actually lower than Alibaba/ Aliexpress. :clap: |