🛒 Buy on Alibaba to sell on Amazon – 🥇FNM Vietnam

Find the supplier you need on Alibaba

Well, the easiest way to find an ideal supplier for your shopping in China (and Asia in general) is to use their search engines in an advanced way.

Here is an example of advanced filtering:

Ideally, you should use the minimum order and price cells. First of all, we recommend doing a general search, seeing what suppliers are, then looking at what they offer, what are the price and quantity scales, and so on.

Then do your search again by minimum order or price, adapting them to your needs, why? Because there are so many more providers than it seems and if you simply enter a keyword and see the results on the first page, you probably will not see the other suppliers that might be right for you.

Keep in mind that Alibaba has such a large number of suppliers that you will find (in general) what you need: small volume of purchase, large amount of production, customization … Many options are available from the moment you get in touch with the suppliers. But you still have to know how to talk to them in the right way!

Tips for negotiating on Alibaba

Here are a few tips :

• They are usually

  available at all times

  , every day of the week so do not hesitate to contact them even on weekends.

• Good salespeople have an agent assigned to them, so you will

  always negotiate with the same person

  .

• Do not be tempted by the pretty Asian girl on the picture

  . It is common for some sellers to put pictures of very pretty Asian girls for

  bargaining,

  but there is no woman behind that. This is done because it works, no more, no less. Those who do not know it and who leave tend to be more accepting of the conditions they give and negotiate less (statistics prove it!).

• Ask the person to trade on WeChat, WhatsApp, Skype or others

  . WeChat (foremost) is a WhatsApp-like application. It works very well and it’s very convenient, so you can make sure that you negotiate in the best conditions.

• Master the MOQs

  . It is not uncommon (it’s even rather common) that suppliers ask you for minimum purchase quantities. In this case, make sure to stay in your budget and especially to dilute your MOQ among several variety: product size, colors, model … Note: The indicated MOQ is very often

  negotiable.

• Negotiate the price

  . Make an effort to find at least

  3 suppliers

  who serve you, negotiate prices and, without lying, tell them that the supplier X offers you 10% less than the supplier Y, in general the supplier Y will try to make a gesture, the unless he has the opportunity ..

• International Freight:

  The plane is the most expensive and the fastest, the cheapest and the slowest boat, the train … a middle ground still rather expensive but which tends to become more and more competitive.

• Place of delivery:

  It is essential that you close the agreement by making sure that the shipping costs billed to you by the suppliers are all shipping costs from their warehouse to yours. Customs clearance and all customs fees included.

• Legal documentation:

  It is also essential that you know if the products you are selling require special EU certificates. Certificates and other licenses are paramount, if your provider does not give them to you, go see another one.

• Photos:

  You are going to sell on Amazon, if you ask your supplier to give you quality photos, you will save a lot of time and money. Ask them without fear.

• Labeling

  or packaging: A tip. If you trade really well, you will be able to get, when you buy in Asia, a product that comes directly with the labels you need to sell your products in Amazon warehouses, for free. For that, you must first be registered on Amazon and have created, although in basic ways, the file of your product.

These are the most important points we recommend when you start buying on Alibaba to sell on Amazon.

Why buy in Asia and not in my own country?

This point is very controversial. There are many people in society who are outraged by this type of practice as if the local suppliers were discredited, but that is far from the reality.

When you choose a foreign supplier, through Alibaba, this will depend mainly on the type of product you want to sell. And second, it depends on the price.

If you are going to sell a product that will require you to pass the standards of quality, toxicity, medical, materials, resistance, safety, etc., we recommend that you choose a local supplier, depending on the country in which you reside.

The main reason is that this type of regulation must comply with EU standards and guidelines and that many Asian companies do not have all the documents in order for all the products they offer.

We have seen cases of companies selling products that are injected onto the skin without the necessary regulations, or others that sell you ten different models of floats, of which only three or four models would comply with European standards.

For this type of products (beauty, health, supplements, toys, etc.), our recommendation is to go to local suppliers, even if your profit margin is a little lower.

However, most companies that you can create in Amazon, do not refer to this type of products, but to others that are much simpler and do not necessarily require supporting documents and compliance with European directives. For such products, the ideal is to find a foreign supplier because the costs are much lower.