Comments on: Find Suppliers for Ecommerce Sites http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2007/09/13/find-suppliers-for-ecommerce-sites/ Website Promotion, Generating Revenue, Website Management Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:09:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Chromate http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2007/09/13/find-suppliers-for-ecommerce-sites/#comment-13736 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:24:09 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2007/09/13/find-suppliers-for-ecommerce-sites/#comment-13736 I’ve imported a couple of products from China, and as Chris says, it’s a scary experience. I spent ages checking them out to make sure everything was legit. In the end it turned out great. They even sent photographs of the boxes being loaded onto the shipping container, which had our name written on the side.

Another time, I was using an agent in the UK to import flash memory. Sent the money, the products reached the UK and then the agent said that the products had been held at customs due to some legal problem. I eventually got our money back, but at some points we were pretty sure we were going to be out of pocket a few thousand.

Research, research, research, before parting with any money.

]]> By: Brendon http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2007/09/13/find-suppliers-for-ecommerce-sites/#comment-13470 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:09:11 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2007/09/13/find-suppliers-for-ecommerce-sites/#comment-13470 Great stuff as usual Chris.

People always underestimate how important a reliable quality supplier is.

Here’s a couple of my many bad experiences with suppliers/manufacturers that cost many thousands of $$$:

“How many of these can you supply me with Mr Manufacturer?”

He says with a sneer “As many as you can sell Brendon.”

This manufacturer was selling to other web sites selling the products – they’d sell 5 a month. Within 2 weeks we were selling 150 a day (of a $200 product).

2 weeks before Christmas, with sales at 150 a day he rang to say he couldn’t supply anymore as he’d exhausted his staff and his supplies of the raw material he needed to make our product.

Right now we have 500 back orders of a product we sell for $50. The stock was supposed to come in yesterday (after a 2 week delay). The supplier rang and said they didn’t get the stock in and it’s another 2 weeks away. This was after we’d been promised the stock 2 weeks ago, the day before and just 2 hours before we got the call saying they didn’t have the stock.

Get a quality supplier who can supply. Sounds simple enough, but it’s the critical piece of the puzzle.

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