You don’t have to go to china to buy Chinese!
Ok, if you have read my blog, by now you know that I have a
passion for business and I just don’t have the bank for it. Oh yeah, broke is
the word but I refuse to let it put me down!
For those who already travel to china, I think this is a great
thing to do. It is pretty obvious that the online prices given by these Chinese
guys are much higher than the actual price of the goods on the ground. I have a
friend in China – they Chinese and got no interest in dealing with buying and selling
stuff – and they from time to time tell me how much they buy stuff on retail (
not wholesale) and this price is normally lower than the wholesale price listed
on some of these websites. Clearly there are many entrepreneurial people out
there. But my logic is that a flight to china and back is KES 110,000 approx.
and as a business person you have to recoup this figure from your wares. This then
means that if you don’t go over and buy the goods at a much higher place, you
can still compete with these big wigs that fly to china to source their wares. That
is just me thinking
Disclaimer: I have nothing against those who fly to china for sourcing;
I just cannot afford it and have had to look for an alternative way to get the
stuff
There is a good shipping agent in china for Kenyan stuff –
they charge 29,000 shilling per cubic meter. Very expensive if you are shipping
a bed or a sofa set from china but if shipping leggings, pants etc. the price
is pretty good I think – obviously if you can get it cheaper why not? They also
offer a sourcing service, where you tell them what you want and they go buy and
then ship it over for you. They charge another 50USD for this service, the only
problem with this; you get the same shit everybody is buying and thus you have
to hustle harder to get noticed.
The guys are also very Kenyan, nothing bad if you don’t mind
it. But after 3 weeks I am still waiting on the price of an item I requested
pricing for…… sometimes I think I will just go to Facebook and look for Kenyan living
in China – the only thing is that your hard earned cash may as well go to water
the watering holes of China…… and thus I like Aliexpress.
I will include a few products I have bought from them for my
EBAY here…..
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| High waist Leggings, love these! |
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| Candy Colour Mini Skirt |
my ebay
To join Aliexpress you will need a credit card and they only send the goods to the address on the credit card. They don’t send to P.O Box address at all. I live in UK now and I receive my goods OK ( except for one instance and the system refunds you anyway) but I still have not worked a way to get the good from China to Kenya from online without all these problems……. Food for thought, anyone?
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