Alibaba is the best online platform to
find suppliers for all kinds of products
but there's still a lot of people
haven't used it or don't know how to use
it correctly or safely that's why I
decided to make this most informative
and a comprehensive guide to eliminate
all your concerns and show you the
correct whole process step by step from
searching suppliers until receive
products I'm Jake the founder of Jing
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video how to buy products on Alibaba
this is a very big and complicated
question so I decided to organize this
video into two sections in section one
you can learn basic knowledge about
Alibaba platform and how it works
if you already have ideas about this
knowledge then you can move the progress
bar to 8 and 1/2 minutes to start
watching a section 2 and I will teach
you how to buy own Alibaba from same
inquiry to receive products
Alibaba Group in China is kind of like
Google in America they have so many
products like table Alex Presley Moe Ali
pay and Ali Babacan is just one of their
products and also it's their first
products which were spilled around 20
years ago this website is mailing for
non Chinese people to find suppliers in
China but now you can also find
suppliers from all over the world
alibaba.com is a dominating b2b trading
platform for similar website like global
resources or made in China they're kind
like search engine Bing or Yahoo when
compared with Google over 90 percent of
people use Google to search and over 90
percent of people use Alibaba to find
supplies online but is Alibaba really
right for you or your business don't buy
any brand products like iPhone Nike
shoes because all these products they
have their own distribution network in
every countries even though they are
made in China but in Alibaba you won't
get a good price for buying the in
quantity and also you will have very
high risk of being scanned if you're
purchasing quantity is less than 500 US
dollars for one product don't use it
even though Alibaba is good for small
business but it's not good for too small
business if you want to find world-class
manufacturers that has supplied big
brands like final lingering manufacture
for Victoria's Secret's or find shoes
manufacture for Nike or adidas I would
not say don't use Alibaba but you almost
cannot find them here because their
target client are usually big company
and big buyers but the main bias of
Alibaba are usually small to medium size
business so alternatively visit ratios
like Kendall Fair will be much easier to
find this type of factories so how does
purchasing Alibaba work essentially
Alibaba is like online tradeshow you can
find supplies for all kinds of products
and learn products fire photos or
descriptions and evaluate it supplies
background by coming informations but
you cannot really complete
purchasing process online as simple as
Aliexpress or Amazon
why because Alibaba is used for
international trading and you are
supposed to deal with factories trading
companies and purchase a product in
larger quantity or customize a product
and make your own packaging your own
brand so every customer they have
different kind of requirement on the
products and the supplier usually they
don't have inventory and they will start
producing after you place order because
this is international trading in the
products or packages usually are
customized so if you are not satisfied
with the product you received it's
almost not possible to return the
products back to China and get full
refund I didn't see any people really
made it together their product returned
and almost no one will tell you this
truth when you are doing the product
research in Alibaba surprises you see
are not real because most of the
transactions are not a complete online
and the suppliers will try to mark their
price as low as possible to attract your
inquiry and this is a very common tricks
they play to stand out from their Seldon
of competitors you need to spend a lot
of time to find out some suppliers whose
business background looks might be good
send their inquiries and they will reply
you with the real price and then you can
start the further communication with the
supplier by email I recommend you to
download the WeChat app to communicate
with suppliers because you can always
get a very fast response and this is app
that we change people to use for
communicating from wake up in the
morning until fall sleep at night for
all things I have mentioned above it
looks like sourcing products and buying
product on La Jolla is kind of like full
of risks but don't worry Alibaba has
provided the following solutions to help
you evaluate your suppliers and security
purchasing orders so keep watching
Alibaba has two types of supplier
membership the goat and the verified you
might heard about the go-to supplier
because there are a lot of tutorial on
internet that teaches how to buy from
Alibaba and they will say
run go to supplier because they are
reliable it's wrong they probably don't
want to choose that every single Chinese
suppliers is go to supplier in China you
have to pay around four thousand five
hundred US dollars per year you can
become the supplier on Alibaba which is
the girl supplier verify the supplier is
kind of like higher level than the gold
because suppliers they usually need to
pass a third party audit and also need
to pay at least ten thousand US dollars
per year to Alibaba then Alibaba will
give a verify supply a badge and also
more exposure opportunity to buyers by
my experiences the goat or the verified
membership doesn't really matters but
the longer years that being a supplier
on Alibaba is more important and then
whether it's goat or verify the supplier
few years ago Alibaba launched the trade
assurance service thus buyers don't need
to worry about being scam or receive
defect products it works like this
when you place order you can write the
product specification and delivery
requirement in the treatise order and
you pay money into Alibaba and they will
help you hold a some money onto your
received products if you want to learn
more about registries and how to use it
you can click the link below or link in
the description another question is who
are the suppliers on Alibaba there are
three kinds of suppliers on Alibaba
manufacturers trading companies and
wholesalers trading company and
wholesalers are usually buying product
from manufacturers and resell to you but
the difference between trading company
and wholesalers are trading companies
usually specialize in certain product
categories while wholesalers usually
they sell any kinds of products as long
as it can bring some profit and usually
their moq is slower and the price will
be more expensive
most of those Alibaba sourcing tutorials
will tell you that you must buy from
manufacturers and the trading companies
is always a middleman to increase the
price and rip you off it's totally wrong
for the same product it's very normal
that different manufacturers has price
difference like 10% 20% or even more
and sometimes the trading companies
price will even better there a lot of
manufacturers so my advice will be it's
always better to focus on how to balance
between the price quality and the
service instead of verifying if it's a
real manufacturer and that you only buy
from them it's great that you keep
watching to now and you probably have
very good understanding about how
Alibaba sourcing works so let's dive
into the section too and let me show you
how to pile Alibaba step by step
actually buying from Alibaba is kinda
like international trading so I will
also teach you some basic but very
helpful trading knowledge is step one
search suppliers there are two ways to
search supplies in Alibaba direct search
and the years I've queue the direct
search is just typing in the keywords in
the search bar then you will find all
products that has similar keywords from
selling of suppliers this method is
quite suitable for this kind of
situation that when you don't have a
specific type of product or specific
periods of the product that you want and
you can take time to look around until
you find attractive products then you
can click the contacts apply button to
leave the message for requiring a
precise called
well if you want to source a specific
product then I strongly recommend you to
use alibaba's I've Q function which is
short for request for quotation just
typing in the URL i've cute alibaba.com
and click try I've Q Now button and you
will see this i've q phone just fill it
out as detail as you can according to
these instructions it's very simple and
you can also attach product links or
images to describe your requirements
better the very important thing you need
to know is that describe your sourcing
requirement as detailed as possible
because every Alibaba supplier can only
reply less than 30 I've cubes per month
it's limited if your RFQ is too simple
then they probably will think that you
are not a serious buyer and then they
don't want to waste this opportunity
to reply to RFQ after submitting the
I've queue phone usually in less than
one hour during the work time in China
you can receive the reply front around
10 suppliers with their quotation and
then you can choose the best one among
these suppliers if you want to learn
more about how to use RFQ effectively to
let as many quality supplier to reach
out to you in less than 15 minutes click
the link below or in the description and
you can also get a very practical FQ
template step 2 identify suppliers after
you filling out the IV q phone you
should receive a lot of supplies reply
very quick and then you need to learn
how to identify and evaluate all then
but if you use the direct research you
need to identify the supplier first then
thinlinc inquiries choosing a long-term
suppliers is more important in choosing
the lowest call suppliers because you
want your business growing that's why
you need a reliable suppliers to support
you with quality products in a service
let me give you six tips for how to
choose a good supplier tip 1 check
Alibaba membership in section 1 I have
explained the basic knowledge about how
supplies membership works and I
recommend you to choose suppliers who
has at least three years membership no
matter it's go to suppliers or verified
because in China there are a lot of
small manufacturers or small trading
companies they will try selling on ibaba
for one or two years they paying few
thousand US dollars per year and they
didn't find they make much money so they
will decide to close their Alibaba
account and in this case you will be out
of alibaba's protection tip to check
company background it's very easy to
judge the supplier is manufacturer or
trading companies through their names
because Chinese companies names usually
consist of these four elements location
name business scope and a common type
in China for the same type of products
usually factories or trading companies
they will gather in the same city or the
same province and we call this area as
industrial clusters and I recommend you
try to find suppliers according to the
industrial clusters because supplies
from those areas they will be like more
professional and in their price will be
more competitive the simplest way to
find where is the industry cluster for
your products is just search the product
in the search bar and then try to find
which province has the biggest numbers
of suppliers and it's there for the
business scope elements trading company
usually use words like trading
import/export commodity and factories
usually we'll use industrial products or
certain product names like stemless
plastic you can also go to the supplier
profile page to see their business type
is trading company or factories but
sometimes it could be wrong because
there are a lot of tricks to play
together trading companies register as a
manufacturer tips three check supplies
product category a good supplier they
should be very professional on products
so you need to check their product
categories for example wine tumbler is
made of stainless steel and it's normal
that the supplier is also selling as a
kind of product that made of stainless
steel but if in his product category
there are a lot of any other products
that has no relationship with stainless
do or drink wears then he might not be a
very good option for good supplier
there are many suppliers on Alibaba
especially for trading companies and hoe
sellers they upload thousands and the
cells in the products in order to get
more inquires from new clients instead
of focusing on certain area tip 4 choose
suppliers who accept trade occurrence
others it's very easy to understand
because this kind of supplies it's very
confident about their qualities and they
know if there's any product defects the
client will open this
filled with Alibaba and they can get a
compensation tip five check complaint
certifications for electronics ties most
of countries they need compliance
certifications for import custom
clearance so you must to choose supplies
who has a certification to your
countries for example electronic
products it need FCC for cousin
clearance in United States and seee
certification for European countries so
only when the supplier has related
certifications it can prove that their
product comply with the regulation in
your country and you can also identify
the suppliers proficiency by
certifications tip six price and minimum
order quantity now you probably
understand why price is not the most
important thing to choose the right
suppliers except for choosing
competitive my suppliers you also need
to think about their minimum order
quantity and usually it's not that hard
to negotiate the moq like twenty or
fifty lower and you can tell the
supplier that you are willing to pay
little bit higher price for buying less
quantities if you want to learn more
skills about how to find reliable
suppliers in Alibaba click link below or
link in the description and I will teach
you in another video
step 3 confirm price
at this step you need to confront a lot
of things with supplies like product
price the purchasing quantity customer
packaging if it has and also the
shipping costs for different shipping
solutions if you don't have your own
free folder here's a very important
thing is that what tray turn should your
supply quote you f OB e ex works CIF or
what else I'm not going to explain the
Incoterms in this video so just remember
my conclusion if you have your own free
for order that have someone who can help
you ship product from China then just
let your supplier quote you at the FO B
price and your supplier will be
responsible for all the costs that
deliver to the vessel at a seaport or
aircraft at the airport and they will
also pay all costs for exporting if you
don't have a freight forwarder then just
let your supplier quality of the product
price in the X book turns and then
lessen quote you the shipping costs
separately which covers from the
supplies warehouse all the way to your
destination you always need to confirm
the shipping costs and the shipping
solutions with the suppliers before you
place order step 4 get sample before you
choose the final supplier to place order
you must to get a product sample to
confirm the quality and you cannot just
judge the quality by the suppliers photo
or images you have to get it and to
touch and fill it and then you need to
reconfirm with the supplier that the
quality of the bulk odor it should be
the same as a sample otherwise you will
have the risk to receive the quality in
the bulk order it's not as good as a
sample I recommend you to get samples
from two or three suppliers and if any
one of them didn't offer good quality
you can still have other suppliers as a
backup solution getting sample usually
cost around $30 because the main cause
is the express shipping by FedEx or DHL
and you will usually receive like three
days but it's really very worthy to
invest this small money in a small time
Step five place order after you confirm
with the supplier for the product price
simple quality purchasing quantity and
the lead time you can place order now
supplier will create and send your
invoice and you need to pay 30% deposit
and they start production and then you
need to pay 70% balance before the
products shipping out of China I have
mentioned in section one that the
Alibaba street assurance service is very
recommended because it can ensure the
product quality is the same as what you
expected it's very simple you can create
the treat assurance order by yourself or
ask your supplier create it for you and
then just follow alibaba's instruction
and send the money into Ali Baba's
account they will help you hold the
money until you receive your products if
your supplier don't accept trade-ins but
you cannot find other suppliers who can
offer better price quality or better
qualification in other aspects but you
believe your supplier is very
trustworthy then you need to use wire
transfer to send money directly to their
bank account for wiring money to China
except we're going to Bank you can also
choose some transfer website like vieng
or transferwise because they are easier
faster and cheaper than bank step six is
bad quality
after the massive production is finished
you need to inspect the quality and then
paint the balance to the supplier to get
a product shipped to you don't think
your product should be fine as long as
your user trade assurance and you need
to be very careful all the time because
you don't want to receive defect
products and open a dispute to get up
compensation it's always not a very good
result because you are wasting time and
money the simplest way is to let your
supplier send you high-resolution
product photos or videos and you can see
if the color or size is the same
according to your requirement I strongly
recommend you to ask supplier to send
you a sample from the bulk order to
check quality even though it will spend
around $30 for the International Express
fee but it's very worthy you can also
hire a third party inspection companies
like SGS kheema or V trusts and they
will let their people travel to the
suppliers warehouse to inspect quality
and the usually they need like around
three hundred US dollars for one person
one day for the inspection and then you
will receive a very detailed inspection
report and it will includes if all the
quantity product size measurement colors
or functions all match your requirements
if you think 300 u.s. dollars is too
expensive you can also use the quality
inspection service in Alibaba and it
only needs around hundred dollars but I
prefer kites meaning inspection because
it's cheap and they cannot spend that
much time for inspection because for
world-famous inspection comments like
bureau veritas their trust is very
expensive for Hotei inspection step
seven ship products
finally you are at the last step of the
whole process then you need your
supplier to assist you to ship a product
from China all the way to your home to
your country if you are a non seller
then you need to ship product from China
all the way to amazon fulfillment
centers if you don't have own free for
orders I recommend you to ask a supplier
to have a fine one and they will help
arrange the shipping and import and
export process and you just pay all the
costs to the supplier there are three
kinds of shipping methods courier
service sea free and every four courier
service its most expensive and they are
provided by companies like FedEx DHL and
TNT and for most countries you will
receive product in three to five days
you will get tracking code of the
supplier shipping the product and you
can go to this courier company's website
to check the location of your products
well force afraid or afraid there's no
way to check the shipment status so you
can only ask your supplier or ask your
own free for order to know that when the
product will be arrived report and when
it will be delivered thank you for
watching this video
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