Sourcing & Purchasing

How to Start:

– For dropshipping, the product photos or links and the destinations will be required;
– For wholesale, the product details, quantity and the delivery address is needed.
The product links or photos can be from aliexpress, alibaba, ebay or amazon, etc. In most of the cases, if they’re made in China, we will find the same from 1688.com with the cost from the manufacturers.
Sourcing and purchasing is a series comprehensive jobs related to the costs, the efficiency, the communication and the trust. We are building an index of both the costs and the managements on this page to make it helpful to our clients all of the world, no matter wholesale and dropshipping, to realize the costs and the services of each part involved from a chinese factory to the final customers.

Transparent Cost:

The cost and the charge of each process is listed below. Our staffs are required to follow these standards without any tricks and the hidden extras. We also tried to be more flexible and easygoing to help our clients get the better services with the reasonable cost. Once you can't get the best quotation with the same product and delivery after discussing with our staffs, you can talk to the supervisor directly to review the costlist they quoted. A solution or suggestion will be given even if we can't match the cost of the competitor.

Why 1688.com:

1688.com is a wholesale website owned by Alibaba group that most of the suppliers of Alibaba, Aliexpress, Taobao, Amazon, Ebay buying from. It contains more than 10 million verified manufacturers in 49 categories. There's only Chinese version and it's only accept RMB (China Yuan) payment.

Get Your 1688 Account:

To open 1688 product links, you need to register an 1688.com account with your mobile number. Normally, you can use google translator to do it. You can also set up a video talk with us to help, totally free.

Cost Structure (for both wholesale and dropshipping):

Dropshipping: Net from the rate sheets of the forwarders (see the rates of more than 80 destinations);
– Wholesale: Checking case by case with the product details including description, weight, packing size, etc.
– Click to see how to calculate the volume weight.

– IOSS/VAT: Only required in EU countries (the parcel value can be lowered from $5);
– GST: Normally for Canada and Australia parcels (can be avoided with the stated value less than the limitation);
– Sales Tax: For US customers only (can be avoid using tax-free states as the address on the platform like Alibaba).

– Dropshipping: $0.50/parcel;
– Wholesale: as actual expenses.

Life-time Discount (totally 5%):

VIP1: The service charge will be reduced to 9% when accumulated orders reach US$2000;
VIP2: The service charge will be reduced to 8% when accumulated orders reach US$5000;
VIP3: The service charge will be reduced to 7% when accumulated orders reach US$10000;
VIP4: The service charge will be reduced to 6% when accumulated orders reach US$20000;
VIP5: The service charge will be reduced to 5% when accumulated orders reach US$50,000.

Special Discount:

Talk to supervisor: