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I found a free tool on Reddit called ImportYeti. You search a company and find it's suppliers. For example, I found who make's NorthFace's Jackets

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Title pretty much says it.

I found this tool called ImportYeti. I had no idea things like this existed but apparently have for a long time now. Pretty much the US makes import records public information and you can find out who uses who as a supplier.

I feel like importing products is a ton easier now. I just search a company and then find their suppliers and reach out to the factory.

I'm in the fitness industry and sell a lot of weight plates and other fitness gadgets. Not only have the few companies I've interacted with been a lot cheaper than my current suppliers (I think I'm going straight to the source instead of through trade groups) but from my samples the quality seems a lot better too.

I've been on a bender trying to private label a lot of the products I retail to juice my profit margins. I've been selling tons of lacrosse balls for myofascial self release. A few quick searches and I found the supplier:

GLADIATOR LACROSSE -- Import History -- ImportYeti

CHUAN QI PRO -- Export History -- ImportYeti

The cost is literally 1/3 the price of what I was getting through my distributor and I get to sell branded product.

Am I the only one whose mind was blown by this? Is everybody already using tools like this?

Also, they say they get their information straight from the government, but I don't know how. Any ideas?
 
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Woah, this kind of blew my mind tbqh :jawdrop:

I actually was just thinking about testing out a new little ecommerce venture and this could prove to be quite useful.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention :)
 

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No worries. I'm happy everybody loves this as much as I do.

I'll post it over there. I've got a new account and I could use all the helpful posts I can get : )
 
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I'm still blown away by this tool and it's been a week or so.

I'm thinking of messaging the owner and asking if he is interested in investment. What are your guys thoughts on this?
 

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Go ahead.
It's not a panacea though, there's plenty of ways to circumvent the details being made public.
I watched a video the guys at import yeti made that shows what importers and exporters can do to effect this.
Eventually the tool could be rendered useless.

Well said. I feel like most people wouldn't go through with that.

I appreciate the thoughts.
 
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I'm still blown away by this tool and it's been a week or so.

I'm thinking of messaging the owner and asking if he is interested in investment. What are your guys thoughts on this?
How does one email oneself? Just like..

to:me
from:me
 

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Useful tool, but not unique in any way.

Import records are public record, and there are lots of websites that display this info.
 
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Like as in on this forum?

He is speculating that you are the person behind this tool, or you've been hired by company to promote it. In other words , he thinks you are being deceptive.
 

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He is speculating that you are the person behind this tool, or you've been hired by company to promote it. In other words , he thinks you are being deceptive.
Got it. Makes sense now.

Huge fan by the way : )
 
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Got it. Makes sense now.

Huge fan by the way : )

So what's your relationship with the company? If you have one, no big deal but you may want to take out an advertisement on the forum. They're pretty inexpensive.
 

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There are a dozen of these tools. From what I understand they just parse the publically available port data and make it user friendly.

They can get quite costly, but I've found Panjiva quite useful - Google indexes quite a bit of their content so with a bit of clever keyword use it's possible to get the information you need without even signing up for the service - without the full suite functionality of course.
 

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There are a dozen of these tools. From what I understand they just parse the publically available port data and make it user friendly.

They can get quite costly, but I've found Panjiva quite useful - Google indexes quite a bit of their content so with a bit of clever keyword use it's possible to get the information you need without even signing up for the service - without the full suite functionality of course.

I didn't think of that.

If you add site:panjiva.com you can find semi-decent information esp. on more of the raw BOL level.

I think ImportYeti & PortExaminer are still better though if you're not going to pay.
 
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This guy has a name consisting of "FBA" and "SEO"
He is registered for just 28 days
He posts a link in first post of the this thread to
a site that helps people find sources for their "FBA business"
...hmmm...
...i can hardly think of any reason for this being spam....
 

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You guys make me want to not even post. I thought I was contributing.

This dude thought it was worthwhile as well:


But I guess, he isn't spam even though he posted duplicated content after me...
 

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You guys make me want to not even post. I thought I was contributing.

This dude thought it was worthwhile as well:


But I guess, he isn't spam even though he posted duplicated content after me...
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You guys make me want to not even post. I thought I was contributing.

Ignore the jaded people. Keep contributing.

I had never heard of this before and thought it was neat. Another tool in the chest.

The problem is that as a business forum, people are on "high alert" for self-promotion and deception. The sad reality is that this forum gets it's fair share of new users with no post history posting something they "found" which happens to be a link to their own product and then we never hear from them again.

Legit people float to the top. Spammers are fly by night. Doesn't take long to figure out who is who.
 

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Ignore the jaded people. Keep contributing.

I had never heard of this before and thought it was neat. Another tool in the chest.

The problem is that as a business forum, people are on "high alert" for self-promotion and deception. The sad reality is that this forum gets it's fair share of new users with no post history posting something they "found" which happens to be a link to their own product and then we never hear from them again.

Legit people float to the top. Spammers are fly by night. Doesn't take long to figure out who is who.

I was just reading a thread too about how this forum was created partly because MJ noticed the lack of moderation on a forum he was contributing to before this. It's probably good people are little too aggressive with spam. It scares the rift raft out.
 
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^ I saw this when searching the tool to use it into Google the other day.

I think it's cool that other people are trying to create something like this. I loved the SEO tool boom that happened a decade ago.

How is it even possible to scrape a site like this though?
 

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Man, that's easy. I got someone's factory from google.

But I've been googling non stop to find someone in the US to make the same product and I just can't find anyone. Or like, it's not openly listed, idk. Losing ma mind t_t
 

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