Sigh It's not Alibaba that's spamming you, it's the vendors themselves. If you're in the U.S. take a trip to any commerce fair for your industry. Before I got

Sigh It's not Alibaba that's spamming you, it's the vendors themselves. If you're in the U.S. take a trip to any commerce fair for your industry. Before I got into electronics I was doing lighting and green building products; I called one of the Chinese companies attending the New York Lighting Fair and told them I wanted to come to their booth. Next day I drove to Manhattan, walked to the reception area and told the lady there I was a limousine driver here to take my Chinese company out for lunch. She printed a $100 badge out for me for free and I went to Eddy, my friend, we shook hands talked for hours and he invited me to his factory and his home in Shanghai. I did the same thing several times in different trade fairs and by the time I went to China I had organized orders from Arab and American companies for their products and we're good friends and brothers to this day. For Chinese companies, it's best to call your sales person up and become friends. But don't sit on your ass and chit chat all day long, they want salespeople, get up and make calls on their behalf. I paid good money getting their product photos edited and printed on glossy materials. If you can organize enough buyers, the Chinese will let you tack your profit ON TOP of the cost of the products. Or you can get your clients to by X units and your factory will sell you X+N units, where N is your own free inventory to do with as you wish.