Hi I was wondering if any of the t-shirtforums.com members have ever had any experience with any suppliers on Alibaba? If so who was it with and how would you rate your experience with them? What would be some tips for using Alibaba?
Has anyone sourced through Alibaba?
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I buy a lot of satin ribbon and have been interested in getting some of it from overseas, but the one time I made a contact with a representative of a mill in China, he was a nice guy and easy to work with but I had to pay the shipping to get a small sample which was $65 (That's too much already...A quick check on the USPS website indicates that I can ship a 7 oz package to China for $12....) And then the samples weren't what I was looking for. Needless to say I did not feel like spending another $65 to try again.
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hi,david, I know well Alibaba.com, I think nowdays they are the biggest B2B website , how to say, there are good supplier and of course scammers, you have to tell them. There are three types suppliers: manufacturer, trading company, trading &manufacturer. in general, manufacturer is reliable, but also some trading company also pretend manufacturer, it is hard to tell, my suggestions to you below: firstly, they have to registered Gold supplier, because for this suppliers, they have to register with their chinese license; secondly, sometimes, it is hard to tell them, so the finally way is that you place a trial order firstly, during this order, you can know much about their ability, service, shipping etc, after you confirm, you can place your big order; thridly, there is basic way, the people who contact with you , must have good skilled of english, because most good factories , will hire
experience workers , better to know two kind of languages, the small factories, they don't have much money to hire experience man to work for them. hope I can help you .
experience workers , better to know two kind of languages, the small factories, they don't have much money to hire experience man to work for them. hope I can help you .
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why don't you use cheap express? such as EMS, but they will be slow than UPS, DHL.. another way , you can organize some samples together, and you can ask your chinese supplier to pay firstly, in general, supplier will have contract with express, maybe it can be cheaper...
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Hi,
I am working at the Textile Company in Turkey. Also our many customers from Alibaba. But not only suppliers but also fake customers too. I am customer service representative at the company. You can trust Gold Member companies.
On the other hand, ı want to do my own business too according to that ı am looking forward to partnership in Europe. I am gonna send the products and my partner is going to sell them on his country. Both sides are going to win.. ı am going to send with no profit and its gonna be the best quality, ı am gonna take care every single details. If anyone interested in please send me message. ı need person whom ı can work trustfully.
All the best,
I am working at the Textile Company in Turkey. Also our many customers from Alibaba. But not only suppliers but also fake customers too. I am customer service representative at the company. You can trust Gold Member companies.
On the other hand, ı want to do my own business too according to that ı am looking forward to partnership in Europe. I am gonna send the products and my partner is going to sell them on his country. Both sides are going to win.. ı am going to send with no profit and its gonna be the best quality, ı am gonna take care every single details. If anyone interested in please send me message. ı need person whom ı can work trustfully.
All the best,
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I am still searching for a great company on Alibaba to get T-shirts and many other products.... but I haven't found any good ones. I tried many fabrics, tried all the samples but I still did not found any good products. the printing isn't good or it isn't looking at all like I requested... the chinese people are hard to explain stuff to. I'm stuck on this part for months now. So if anyone had any great experiences with an company on Alibaba and would like to share that information. shout me a PM... would be great
Cheers, KOTG
Cheers, KOTG
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No self promotion on the boards (also we can buy T-shirts here much cheaper than $2.40.)
If I was to try it again, I think I'd contact the company and instead of them sending me a sample I'd send them a sample of what I'm looking for. That way they can let me know if they can do it or not. I still don't know why I had to pay $65 to get a small package shipped.
If I was to try it again, I think I'd contact the company and instead of them sending me a sample I'd send them a sample of what I'm looking for. That way they can let me know if they can do it or not. I still don't know why I had to pay $65 to get a small package shipped.
Hello Charles,
Please can i have your supplier's contact?
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Mercy - I have bee absent on the forum....so missed your question. Since I last tried to use my source, he had closed shop....and now so have I
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Hello,
Recently, one of my friends download the Alibaba app and get 2 coupons with some discount price.
He purchased $10 mouse from the Alibaba and used a coupon. After three days, the order cancelled automatically.
He contacted support team and also talk with retailer directly by chat. He said it's not affordable for us so we will not deliver the product and cancelled order.
So, be careful in some cases.
Thanks.
Recently, one of my friends download the Alibaba app and get 2 coupons with some discount price.
He purchased $10 mouse from the Alibaba and used a coupon. After three days, the order cancelled automatically.
He contacted support team and also talk with retailer directly by chat. He said it's not affordable for us so we will not deliver the product and cancelled order.
So, be careful in some cases.
Thanks.
Do you pay any import taxes or fees from buying over seas from Alibaba?
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I have used 4 factories from Alibaba to manufacture screen printed and embroidered t-shirts. 3 out of 4 factories supplied me with the cheapest lowest quality fabric, I had clients sending t-shirts back because they washed the t-shirts and holes appeared. Also the stitching and screen printing was sub standard. The fourth factory completely ripped me off, I never received the screen printed t-shirts, I received a shipment of plain white t-shirts. I ordered black cotton screen printed t-shirts. The same company are still on Alibaba.
As far as I'm concerned stay well away, unless you are happy to lose a huge amount of money. I have three friends that have lost huge amounts of money on Alibaba. We all know after having all these problems that Alibaba is not the direct factory, 95% are just middlemen sitting in an office and in reality, live nowhere near a factory.
I would recommend using Thailand to manufacture t-shirts. They produce the best quality fabric in Thailand, the stitching is very neat and the unit cost is very similar to China. I've been using Sugini factory based in Thailand for a couple of years now. They produce my fabric to composition, screen print and embroider, create new patterns, cut and stitch, produce brand labels and tags, package my t-shirts singly and they are easy to communicate with. This is a direct factory so no middleman
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As far as I'm concerned stay well away, unless you are happy to lose a huge amount of money. I have three friends that have lost huge amounts of money on Alibaba. We all know after having all these problems that Alibaba is not the direct factory, 95% are just middlemen sitting in an office and in reality, live nowhere near a factory.
I would recommend using Thailand to manufacture t-shirts. They produce the best quality fabric in Thailand, the stitching is very neat and the unit cost is very similar to China. I've been using Sugini factory based in Thailand for a couple of years now. They produce my fabric to composition, screen print and embroider, create new patterns, cut and stitch, produce brand labels and tags, package my t-shirts singly and they are easy to communicate with. This is a direct factory so no middleman
.Most of the time you do....The duty on caps from Vietnam to Canada is 12.5%....
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Since this thread has been revived, I'll say that I recently gave Ailibaba another try. This time I knew exactly what I wanted to order and got seven or eight responses to my request. The representative from the company I decided to order from was very cooperative, he took photos of the product and forwarded them to me and his English was very good so we didn't have any trouble understanding one another. The international shipping was reasonable and I had my stuff the following week.
If you know exactly what you want to order I do recommend Alibaba.
If you know exactly what you want to order I do recommend Alibaba.
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Do you have any specific Mfg's from that platform you can recommend?
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I have found a couple of solid suppliers on Alibaba--but I have also heard all of the stories. I think the best thing to do is get a sample of what you are buying, place a couple of small test orders and pay with PayPal.
Yes good and bad. Single biggest issue, if you buy goods, have them include door to door shipping in the quote. We have had times when we actually had to go to the docks, get customs to clear our items before releasing our goods. And of course freight collect.
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