Almost every people who want to do business with Chinese know some online platforms, like alibaba, globalsource, and make-in-china etc, it's easy to find lots of your products suppliers from above platforms, but they also had heard there were so many scams and worry about the safe channel.
If you want to buy some cheap products, like wood brooch, it's impossible to asked some certifications company to check that company true of fails, how can we find the really factory and safely buy the products we want ? here is some tips.
1. Some body choose to check their website, tel, fax, address, however, all these thing may be made-up to cheat you.If you buy these things from online store, you could check their feedbacks, customers feebacks is an exanllent way to check their quality, if customer buy bad wood brooch products, they won't give good feedbacks. Some website or online store don't have feedbacks, you could search keywords"xx company is cheater" is google, somebody were cheated would left messages from all kinds of forums. Another good way to tast the factory, ask them to supply one or two customers they had done business in your country,you may have a call to tast them.
2.Ask the company make samples firstly,wood brooch products is cheap, most of them made by laser cut, don't need morld cost,normally speaking, lots factory will make samples for free, you could ask them to take a really pictures about samples for you,if they are honest to do business with you, they will do it for you.
3.If you still worry about the factory, you could ask them to take some pictures about their factory,workshop,machine,even take a video of making samples process, if they are trade company or cheater, they may easy to get the samples, but it's very hard to get these pictures or video.
4.About payment, for wood brooch is cheap product, the total cost just several hundreds dollors, most of them less than one thousand dollars, many people like to pay for it by paypal, however, many factory of China don't accept paypal payment,there is two season, one is some foreigh cheaters got the goods and told paypal they don't get it or the good is bad quality, paypal turn back
all the money to buyer. In fact, credit card payment is very popular now, many factory accept credit card payment.If you had done business with that factory before, you could pay for it by T/T, otherwise, credit card payment would be better for both.
5.This article not just only for wood broduct products supplier,you also could verify whether the supplier that you are about to deal with is genuine or not.