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Sourcing & supplier verification

Buy from China without the language wall — or the blind trust

Verification before you pay, eyes on the factory floor, and every conversation interpreted. We work for the buyer, take nothing from the supplier, and never touch the goods or the money for them.

The short version: the two things that go wrong when you buy from China are paying the wrong company and approving the wrong sample. Both are language-and-distance problems, and both are solvable without flying over. We check who the company actually is on the official registry, walk the floor, interpret the negotiation, and inspect what ships against what you approved. You contract with the supplier and pay the supplier — we never take title to goods and never hold your payment for goods.
Coverage

Wherever the factory is, not wherever we are

China’s manufacturing is clustered, and the cluster that matters depends on what you buy. We work across mainland China — a verification visit goes to the plant, not to the nearest city we happen to like. Travel outside our home province is quoted upfront and billed at cost.

Learned the expensive way

Where overseas buyers actually lose money

Rarely on unit price. Almost always on one of these four.

The payment went to the wrong account

The invoice looks right, the account name does not match the business licence, and the deposit is gone. Matching the receiving account to the licensed entity is a five-minute check that almost nobody does.

Supplier verification

The “factory” was a trading company

A trading company is not automatically a problem — but paying factory-direct prices for a trader’s margin is, and so is a supplier who cannot actually control the production they are promising you.

Maker-vs-trader analysis

The shipment did not match the sample

The golden sample was approved by email, nobody wrote down what “approved” meant, and there was no pre-shipment inspection. By the time the container lands, your leverage is gone.

Samples & inspection

The supplier registered your brand

China is first-to-file. A supplier or distributor who registers your mark in year one owns it there, and you find out in year three. Filing early costs a few hundred dollars a class; buying your own name back does not.

Trademark strategy
Straight answers

Questions we hear from every first-time buyer

Do you buy the goods and resell them to me?

No. We are a service provider, not a trading company. We never take title to goods, never hold your payment for goods, and never act as the seller. You contract with the supplier and pay the supplier directly; our fee is for our work and is invoiced separately. If you want a Chinese trading entity to buy and resell to you, that is a different structure and we can introduce a licensed trading company — but we will not be it.

How do you verify that a supplier is real?

We start from the business licence and the Unified Social Credit Code, check the company on China’s National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System, analyse whether the registered scope and export rights indicate a manufacturer or a trader, verify the factory in person or by video, check certificates with the issuer, and confirm the receiving bank account name matches the licensed entity. The report says go or no-go and shows the evidence.

What is the single biggest red flag?

A bank account whose name does not match the business licence. Being asked to pay a personal account, a Hong Kong shell or an unrelated third party is the classic fraud and tax-evasion setup. We flag it before you wire anything.

Does your location matter to us?

It should not. We work across mainland China and go where the plant is. What matters is that a verification visit happens quickly and that someone competent walks the floor — not which city our licence is registered in. Turnaround is stated on every service page.

General information, not legal or tax advice. A US$120 consult gets your own situation answered specifically — and is credited in full against any service you book.

Tell us what you're trying to buy

Book a 45-minute consult. We map your situation to the right process, tell you honestly what is and is not possible, and give you a fixed fee. No obligation.

Book a consult · US$120 Credited in full against any service you go on to book.