Just an FYI for those of you who buy wholesale from China...

[slappzilla]

My orders have been taking forever the past couple of weeks. Been taking forever for the tracking #'s to even register on USPS.com or EMS.com. I asked my supplier about this, here's what he had to say...

"Because it's near to the Christmas Day, there are so many international packages leaving China, it's taking longer than usual to ship packages. Expect at least extra 3-5 day wait cause Christmas come soon"


I know it's an obvious to most of you, but I figured I'd share. Hopefully it will help cut back on the "USPS/DHL/UPS delay?" threads.

[Gamefreak]

I dont seem to be having this problem with DHL.. Actually my packages are getting here faster it seems.

[slappzilla]

May just be EMS then. I only use EMS.

[linktohard]

I just received a package in the mail today through EMS that I ordered only 5 days ago

[jamblix]

[FandangoKango]

Large orders through ems at christmas time take longer to receive Its happened to me.

[unkown5454]

Those of you who actually run successful "businesses" should learn right from the beginning that you always order in bulk long before holidays. Then you can stop crying.

If you can't afford bulk, then place small orders as frequently as possible. All common sense.

[Mzgr3k0]

Not that it matters ,
But me too.
I love my supplier he is so funny. He always calls me "friend" and tells me "its an honour to do business with you" haha.
I think of city wok from south park everytime I speak to him.

[Pringles]

Originally Posted by Mzgr3k0

Not that it matters ,
But me too.
I love my supplier he is so funny. He always calls me "friend" and tells me "its an honour to do business with you" haha.
I think of city wok from south park everytime I speak to him.

those suppliers also love to call us "dear"

[NotAHappyBunny]

USA to UK seems a lot slower too

[slappzilla]

Originally Posted by unkown5454

Those of you who actually run successful "businesses" should learn right from the beginning that you always order in bulk long before holidays. Then you can stop crying.

If you can't afford bulk, then place small orders as frequently as possible. All common sense.

I can't do that because my stuff is custom made per order. If I could I would, trust me.

[jeffweico]

I start ordering extra in October. That way I can spread the expense over nearly 2 months and I KNOW what I will have in stock for Chirstmas. Is is not just the DELAYS you need to worry about. Popular items can go out of stock too.

Also, you need to order extra early in January. There is a Chinese holiday that lasts for almost 2 weeks the last week of January and the first week of February.

[Pringles]

Originally Posted by jeffweico

Also, you need to order extra early in January. There is a Chinese holiday that lasts for almost 2 weeks the last week of January and the first week of February.

Yea I think it should be chinese new year around then

[jeffweico]

I lookled this up on About.com. This is the combination of the Chinese New Year (also known as the Spring festival) and rhe Lantern Festival. The New Year/Spring Festival seems to be the BIG Holiday in China when families get together. This years it starts on January 23rd.

From About.com:

Falling on the first day of the first month of the lunisolar calendar, Chinese New Year is just the start of a fifteen day celebration that ends with the Lantern Festival. Families spend weeks preparing for the event: cleaning and decorating the house, making offerings to the Chinese Kitchen God, and cooking up festive foods. Once Chinese New Year arrives, numerous traditions mark the fifteen day event, from parades and firecrackers to the lucky money envelopes older family members pass out to children on New Year's Day.

[unkown5454]

There are actually some merchants who close for 4 weeks. If you are lucky, they will only take 2 weeks off.

[teedon]

It is not the truth. Now if shipped by EMS directly ,the goods can be shipped out at same day in guang zhou .But if the goods being handle by shipping agents or any forwarder,that might be a bit delay because their warehouse is limited to load so many packages.

But if chinese new year is coming,the goods really will be delay for two weeks at least.But there are still 40 days more to chinese new year

[mercurial333]

Originally Posted by Mzgr3k0

Not that it matters ,
But me too.
I love my supplier he is so funny. He always calls me "friend" and tells me "its an honour to do business with you" haha.
I think of city wok from south park everytime I speak to him.

lol

[teedon]

Originally Posted by jeffweico

I start ordering extra in October. That way I can spread the expense over nearly 2 months and I KNOW what I will have in stock for Chirstmas. Is is not just the DELAYS you need to worry about. Popular items can go out of stock too.

Also, you need to order extra early in January. There is a Chinese holiday that lasts for almost 2 weeks the last week of January and the first week of February.

Actually,the holiday will affect the business up to 1 month,as many factories will do not have stock two weeks after new year ,because many workers still not come back and also the factory have not get the enough material and they need time to produce the stuff.

[psthreeusb]

just order from vietnam, the chinese are excuse ridden gangstas =)

[teedon]

Originally Posted by psthreeusb

just order from vietnam, the chinese are excuse ridden gangstas =)

That is a smart idea to separtely buy the goods from vietnam,as chinese stuff is getting more expenses ,and there are not too big advantage for the chinese stuff now,due to the rising workers salary,material cost,and RMB :USD exchange rate .

[teedon]

I hope chinese suppliers in this forum will not blame me because i gave the above comments.I only want to told the truth and hope chinese companies will make some change and keep the advantages for chinese stuffs ,and attract more global attention.

[beneysz]

What Teedon is saying is correct, the delay about the christmas period is not true, the only time your packages will be delayed is during chinese new year.

Whats more likely is that your supplier's forwarder, may simply be sending their packages to another forwarder they work with (for cheaper rates) who takes a few days to process the orders before shipping the goods out, this is why they wouldnt be trackable even though your supplier is claiming they have sent the goods.

The Vietnamese idea is good in theory and im sure in about 5-10yrs time will probably be very relevant, due to chinese labout costs becoming to high, the strenght of the RMB and domestic demand increasing. For the time being there is no where near the same selection of variety and products as offered from china