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We buy in China, in RMB, on your behalf.

Send a product link, an image or a spec sheet. We find the supplier, establish what is actually being sold, negotiate the price, and pay in RMB — so you never need a Chinese account, a Chinese phone number or a Chinese address.

8%Flat sourcing fee
0Membership fee
3–5Days to a quote
RMBSettled on our accounts
30Days free storage
01Before anyone pays

A listing is not a specification.

Marketplace photographs get reused across sellers. “Same style” often means a different material. MOQ is frequently negotiable and occasionally fictional. Our first job is to establish what the item is before anybody pays for it.

What we checkWhy it changes the order
The listing, in fullSpecification, variant list and the seller’s own answers read in Chinese — not machine-translated.
The sellerRegistration, trading history, production capability, and which documents they actually hold rather than which they claim.
The physical factsMaterial, size, weight and packaging confirmed in writing before a bulk order is placed.
The photographsSample photographs of the actual unit, taken before production — not the catalogue image.
02What the fee covers

Six things, one fee.

Everything between a link and a paid supplier order. The 8% is charged once, on the goods value.

01 · Product sourcing

Find the item, not just a listing

A link, an image or a specification. We locate the product across Taobao, Tmall, 1688, Alibaba.com and direct factory contacts, and bring back comparable options with prices.

02 · Supplier verification

Check who is actually selling

Registration, trading history, production capability and the documents they hold — checked before an order is placed, not after a problem appears.

03 · Price and MOQ

Negotiate in the seller’s language

Unit price, minimum order quantity, specification, lead time and domestic freight to our Guangzhou warehouse, confirmed in writing.

04 · Purchasing and settlement

Pay in RMB, from our account

This is the part that usually stops a Gulf buyer. Most Chinese marketplaces will not accept a foreign card, a foreign phone number or a foreign delivery address. Ours are domestic.

05 · Samples and customisation

Get the colour right before the run

Samples, colours, sizes, logos, packaging and labelling coordinated with the approved supplier before production starts.

06 · Multi-supplier orders

One contact for six sellers

Each order tracked separately, each parcel routed to our Guangzhou warehouse for inspection and consolidation, one invoice at the end.

03The money

The 8%, in full.

No membership, no minimum order, no fee hidden inside the freight.

Our sourcing fee is 8% of the goods value. It is charged once per order and covers everything from reading the listing to paying the supplier.

It does not cover China domestic freight, international freight, customs duty or VAT. Those appear as separate lines on the same quote, so the total is visible before you commit.

There is no membership fee and no minimum order value. One item and one hundred cartons are handled the same way.

What the quote looks like

Goods value · sourcing fee 8% · China domestic freight · international freight · duty · VAT · delivery. Every line visible, in SAR or AED, before anybody pays a supplier.

If a number changes after the quote — a seller raises the price, or customs classifies the goods differently — you hear it before dispatch, not on the delivery day.

04Why a local partner

Why this matters more from Riyadh than from Shanghai.

A buyer in China opens Taobao, pays with Alipay, and receives the parcel the next morning.

From the Gulf, the same purchase requires a Chinese phone number for the account, a Chinese payment method, a Chinese delivery address, and enough Chinese to argue with the seller when half the order arrives wrong.

We already have all four. That is the entire service — not a courier with a website.

05Questions we get asked

Sourcing, answered plainly

Can you buy from Taobao, 1688 or Tmall for me?
Yes — that is the core of what we do. Send the product link; we confirm price, seller rating and whether the item can clear entry at your destination. If it cannot, you hear it from us before you pay.
Is the 8% charged on the goods only, or on everything?
On the goods value only. Freight, duty and VAT are passed through at cost and shown as separate lines. We do not mark up freight to hide a fee inside it.
What if the seller will not ship to a Chinese address I do not have?
That is the normal case. The parcel comes to our Guangzhou warehouse, which is a domestic Chinese address. We receive it, count it, photograph it, and tell you what arrived.
Can you find a factory rather than a marketplace seller?
Yes, for orders where a factory makes sense. We check production capability and the documents a factory actually holds, and we tell you when a marketplace seller is the better option for a small order.

Send us the link. We will tell you what it actually is.

We reply with the supplier we recommend, the landed cost, and anything about the listing that looks wrong.

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