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Just Imported My First Sea Shipment: Here's what that process looks like

Timmy C

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But note: it took me 5 months of intense searching for suppliers and selling to get to this point. The prices I'm offering now are better than my client was getting when he was importing himself. So for him, it's a no brainer to pay a middle man like me. All my profit comes when I buy and negotiate.

Did you know what product you where going to try and import from the beginning of your journey for those 5 months when you set out to find suppliers?

Or did you sign up to product catalogues while searching on sites until you had a light-bulb moment and came across a product of interest that way?

Tim.
 
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Did you know what product you where going to try and import from the beginning of your journey for those 5 months when you set out to find suppliers?

You engage the market. Figure out what the market wants. Define the value. Figure out if you can deliver that value. If you think you can, you get samples (sometimes engaging the market requires samples first). Then you get feedback. Then you push 20 different guys to give you an order. 1 guy does. You deliver to that guy. Sell him more stuff. Replicate the value you gave him for other people. Add more value. Scale.

So to answer your question: Yea, I knew what product I was going to import, but it was a result of launching 5 different ideas at once and going with the one that had the most traction.
 

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This thread is amazing. Just now coming across it. Have to bump it up because people need to see this.
 

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This thread is amazing. Just now coming across it. Have to bump it up because people need to see this.
This.
I had been looking for a fastlaner's specific journey with getting a container over and dealing with the forwarders for awhile and hadn't yet seen this thread.

I am a bit jealous though, because it looks like all in all his shipment was about 1300$, whereas it seems to be 15,000$+ at the moment. This isn't including the fact it could climb higher depending on how china handles their oncoming energy and production crunch.
 
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The former member who started this thread quit the forum nearly 18 months ago, so you won't be getting answers from him.

If anyone has questions about product sourcing and importing, I suggest you post your questions on my AMA.
GOLD! Sharing my lifetime experience in export/import. Product sourcing specialist.

As I have done for 7 years I will provide accurate and helpful answers.

Walter
 

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