Thursday, January 20, 2011

Bypass the Pitfall When Purchasing Online

    Online shopping or purchasing seems have been part of people’s life now. But they do bring people pain as well as good bargin. That people is cheated by the online seller is no longer something unusual. If you are new in shopping, especially purchasing online, take minutes to read the tips below and bypass the potential pitfall.

DO NOT Trust the suppliers that have the following features:
1) Have not its own domain name website, only have an Alibaba.com sub-domain website.

2) The supplier's just have a mobile phone number, like +86-13-xxxx-xxxxx, or +86-15-;, They dont have any landline or fax.


3) The supplier website don't have detail office address, no suite number etc.,


4) Claimed “a Hong Kong company”, but the contact phone number will be from china mainland origin-, and the address is not Hong Kong address. You can check Hong Kong company registration info at http://www.icris.cr.gov.hk/csci


5) Posted thousands of products in some B2B platform such as Alibaba.com that its price is very cheap;


6) Selling famous brand, please notice all famous brand is hard to ship to oversea if don't have the export license;


7) Not only the goods price is very cheap, but also the shipping rate is also very cheap or free;


8) Ask the supplier tell you its office's address, say “you will assign some one to visit his/her office”, check what he/she say;


9) Trust your first feeling, if you don't feel safe, and then give up this supplier. You can use our true identity verification service, or cash on delivery service, or personal shopper service.

Those are the tips comes from my 15years’ e-cormerce experience.Hope to share yours too!