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Can you expand in how the middlemen work in China in regards to factories and the platforms?
by alangibson 5y ago
Can you expand in how the middlemen work in China in regards to factories and the platforms?
- baybal2 5y agoYou go to a company saying "we sell your wares on Amazon.com," and sign a contract. Your goods come in from one end, cash comes out on another. Usually that's all If the guy sucks, you go to another one. You can see a company called Ugreen, which ended up with multiple "official stores" on online marketplaces this way. Contract enforcement in China is of course non-existent. It's good if you manage to get a prominent handle for your own brand, in worst case somebody else can do it for you! I know a man who regularly have to smack pretender "official stores" of his brand few times a year. This also works the other way around, somebody with a vicious lawyer can coerce Alibaba, or JD into handing your (likely well doing) online store to them on a claim that you don't own your own brand name.
- NicoJuicy 5y agoFactories aren't on Ali. English speaking businesses that but from factories are.