Hey there,
I just wondered what your experiences with Chinese business culture are. I registered on AliBaba to find suppliers for materials I want to engrave. I do regret that move.
(on a side note: I made the complete chain of production German by now)
I wonder if I did something wrong. First of all, everyone I contacted and I was contacted by communicated much like a Nigerian prince (or cheap cam girl, I'm not kidding), but with worse English. And when they sent the invoices, they massively overcharged on shipping. They also ramped up the prices of samples (which I indeed was willing to pay for) so high that I just could have stuck with the MOQ. Also, they didn't care about communicating on AliBaba, they just went directly to my phone number and spammed me there.
After about 50 suppliers, I just had enough of that and said "I'm never doing business with or in China again". I already had an extreme dislike for Chinese products, anyway (based on absolutely horrible consumer experiences), but I thought I'd give it a try.
The only person I could do reasonable, friendly, and serious business was an Indian supplier.
Is there something like a primer one could read on Chinese business culture? Because I felt nothing else but insulted by the way I was treated.
I just wondered what your experiences with Chinese business culture are. I registered on AliBaba to find suppliers for materials I want to engrave. I do regret that move.
(on a side note: I made the complete chain of production German by now)
I wonder if I did something wrong. First of all, everyone I contacted and I was contacted by communicated much like a Nigerian prince (or cheap cam girl, I'm not kidding), but with worse English. And when they sent the invoices, they massively overcharged on shipping. They also ramped up the prices of samples (which I indeed was willing to pay for) so high that I just could have stuck with the MOQ. Also, they didn't care about communicating on AliBaba, they just went directly to my phone number and spammed me there.
After about 50 suppliers, I just had enough of that and said "I'm never doing business with or in China again". I already had an extreme dislike for Chinese products, anyway (based on absolutely horrible consumer experiences), but I thought I'd give it a try.
The only person I could do reasonable, friendly, and serious business was an Indian supplier.
Is there something like a primer one could read on Chinese business culture? Because I felt nothing else but insulted by the way I was treated.
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