do anyone know where i can buy electonics straight from china, at their prices? im looking for a website. thnx

Answer 1

The Web sites everyone uses to find suppliers in China are Alibaba.com and GlobalSources.com.

Search for "electronics", not the way you misspelled it in your question, and you will find hundreds of companies. But be warned that suppliers in China have MOQs (minimum order quantities) of anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand pieces. That means they won't supply to you unless you buy large quantities.

Also you will need to send them payment via wire transfer. You need to have a company with a company bank account to do this. Payment terms are typically 30-50% deposit with the balance payable as soon as the freight ships.

You will need a freight forwarder to arrange shipping and customs clearance. The freight costs aren't necessarily going to erase your savings. My guess is that your problem will be lack of capital. For example, let's say you want to buy some computer speakers. The speakers might retail for $15 in the US, and the supplier in China is selling them for $5 with an MOQ of 100 pcs. That's $500 FOB. Then there's the cost of shipping, which is all about economies of scale. The more you ship, the cheaper the shipping cost per unit shipped. At 100 units by air, you can expect to pay something like $2 per unit. That's $700. Plus duty of 5% on speakers (different products have different duty rates - your customs broker will know the rates) is another $75. That's a total of $775, just for 100 speakers. I assume you plan to try to sell them on line? Well, nobody will buy them from you unless you sell them for at least 25% less than what they can buy them for from Wal-Mart or Amazon, for example. So, your sell price is something like $11.25 if you are selling them direct to consumers. And we haven't even begun to look at your cost of sales. So, you might make $350 on the sale of those 100 speakers, but you might spend almost that much money in marketing/advertising expenses.

Bottom line: Unless you are currently in the business of SELLING and DISTRIBUTING electronics, you have no business even thinking about buying electronics or anything else direct from China.

Answer 2

I hope you're prepared to buy a sea container full of the same item. That's the only way you'll save enough to make the shipping charges worth it.

Answer 3

Even if you could, the shipping/handling costs would eat your savings up. Also, would it get here without being broke. Would they offer refunds? Lot's of questions here.