How to avoid being scammed in China
Are they fooling Chinese sellers?
The most obvious answer is that the vast majority of them are usually honored and belong to honorable companies. It is true that we can promptly have some differences of interpretation of contracts, mainly due to cultural issues, but generally they have no intent to mislead buyers to conduct their business transactions.
Having said that, the slipstream of development and the huge number of all kinds of goods exported by the country, Some They have decided to make a killing by using deception and have managed to perfect their methods to get rich scams to incredible levels.
Perhaps the most common scam is the company that simply being Delivery is passed by manufacturer and it offers the products of other companies and own production, not having the slightest hesitation in using on their websites pictures of facilities that are not yours and resell products.
The damage that these companies can cause us is varied, since expensive product in a high percentage the Failure to comply with the guarantees that it offers up just the collect in advance the amount and never serve, often private individuals who make a website and are open an account, where they will receive money from unsuspecting foreign importers and later will change, both web and has, to go erasing their tracks.
These are generally scams small amounts and are based on the widespread custom in China to perform commercial transactions with payment by telegraphic transfer in advance, or at least to the advancement of a percentage thereof, the only way to try to avoid falling into this kind of deception is to check, through someone established in China, the address and telephone numbers appear on the website correspond to real companies, listed in the phone records of where located and say they want more security if the Ask a factory tour is conducted, or alleged Factory, to ensure that our interlocutor is who they say they, this represents an additional cost us the purchase but let us sleep easy once the same.
Sometimes once the transaction the seller wants to deceive ship a lower quality merchandise the agreed, it can happen simply because it has not been able to achieve the agreed standards or because their quality control has failed and has been unable to meet specifications, is recommended in these cases ask to make the final payment of the merchandise is any inspection thereof at the time of shipment, by a company of our confidence and perform a random sampling of a sufficient percentage of the product let us be sure that embarks what we bought and we will pay, Also here we must have some extra cost but we can sleep easy again.
The fact of a first shipment has not been satisfactory guarantees that the following are to be, so it is important to pay equal attention to all shipments as there can be huge difference in quality between them, This is especially noticeable when the goods to a broker who in turn buy from one manufacturer and purchase may be that the manufacturer to buy the second shipment will have nothing to do with that used in the first operation, although sometimes the same manufacturer we relax our control fail to send any defective item, or as has happened sometimes painted a different color with the requested products and served in the first shipment.
China sells cheap but It requires control operations can not fail to make if we want to meet with unpleasant surprises.
It is much the picaresque that can be given and any too careful, the help installed in China and deserves our trust company is very important to ensure the success of our operations, ni internet, which it is a great help, or the experience of other importers have been able to conduct successful operations should make us lower our guard and find someone to help us protect our interests.
In addition to this type of scam that we mentioned, there is much more dangerous formulas used in major operations, with more money at stake and you are able to break even with the security normally ensure international means of payment.
Do not forget that Chinese counterfeiting is an art and not just goods but any kind of document is fake, including among them those that are used internationally for the transfer of ownership of the goods, skip achieving security normally gives the buyer making payments through instruments as safe as can be the documentary credit.
Un caso real
A Latin American buyer purchases a container of a particular commodity at a port position CIP Southern Cone, to ensure that there will be no problems asking the seller to pay by documentary credit where requests, inter alia: Complete set of bills of lading, with mention of freight paid, commercial invoice, certificate of insurance of the goods and the weight and quality certificate issued by an official Chinese Inspection entity.
The embarkation good and the seller submitted the required documents to the issuing bank, who gave the nod to them and proceeded to pay the shipment, sending the original documents to the buyer.
So far so perfect, However, when the ship arrives at the port of discharge and the buyer has to pick its container, It is with surprise that the shipping company informs you that the bill of lading made available to it is a fake, so good that even passed without problem by the bank, to the number of knowledge and the container that it covers corresponds to a container which actually travel on, but with a different merchandise and other receiver.
The insurance certificate is authentic because the seller, to give verisimilitude to documentation he even alleged ensure merchandise, the cost of raw found it laughable compared to the money that I would get and inspection certificate was but another magnificent forgery de uno real.
This sophisticated system to cheat buyers not have been possible if these they had taken care to someone you trust to certify the load out of the container and issue the certificate, after having advised the buyer that everything was correct.
In the next post we will see also in China we can be victims of deception, and how to avoid being cheated in China, although this time by buyers.
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