- What is 1688.com?
1688.com is the biggest wholesale platform and only open to Chinese market, most ecommerce sellers e.g.Taobao, ebay, Amazon, shopify buy products on this platform. 1688 can offer the lower price comparing with other wholesale platform because most of suppliers is small and medium factories or wholesalers.
- What’s the sellers on 1688.com, wholesalers or factories?
Most of suppliers on 1688 are manufacturers, some of them are wholesalers and you can get the lower level price comparing with other platform.
- What is the difference between 1688.com and Alibaba.com?
1688 only open for Chinese market, all sellers on this ecommerce platform is Chinese factories or wholesalers. Most of the products sell for Taobao sellers and Taobao is for B2C in China. 1688 charge annually fee 6688RMB.
Alibaba is international ecommerce platform, sellers mostly are Chinese factories or trading companies. Alibaba also allows for international sellers to open store. Some Alibaba sellers also buy from 1688 and resell to international buyers. Alibaba charge annually fee 29800RMB, which is far expensive comparing with 1688.
Then you can see that 1688 provide cheap price even for same products on Alibaba. That’s why so many international buyers outside China buy from 1688 through a sourcing agent because they can get very competitive price on this platform, especially for small business or ecommerce sellers globally.
The international supply chain is getting small and small with developing of ecommerce business and customers globally can benefit from this trend.
- Can I just pay USD dollars to suppliers on 1688.com?
The answer is NO.
Sellers on 1688.com only accept RMB, in this way, you need to find an agent to settle payment issues. Transfer USD to your agent and your agent will exchange to RMB and then pay to suppliers.
We accept USD payment and you can transfer USD via Western Union or Paypal ( Paypal has high fee, if transfer by Paypal, we will add paypal fee 4.4%+0.3USD per transfer).
- Can I speak English directly with suppliers on 1688.com?
No, they only speak Chinese. If you want to communicate with them, has to translate into Chinese or ask your agent to buy from 1688.com.
- How can I find 1688.com Agent for my products?
We, DavySourcing.com is a leading sourcing agent in China, dedicated to help small business and E-commerce sellers e.g. Ebay Amazon and Shopify sourcing products from China, to reduce the sourcing and procurement costs.
We provide services including product sourcing, price negotiation, supplier verification, sample confirming, production follow-up, lab testing, quality control, quality inspection, shipping arrangement and photograph & design etc. We provide complete service for Amazon Sellers, including customized packaging, Amazon label, FBA Shipping, etc.
- How can I translate 1688.com website to be English?
That’s easy, just use Google Chrome and click right mouse button and translate any language you want. then you can get it translated, like below picture. if you are not planning to use Chrome, then you just need to download a Auto AppTranslate and install to your browser. But I suggest to use Chrome, translation is good to use.
You can also check the company basic information after translation to see what type of company, wholesaler or manufacturer. Below pictures for your reference.
Conclusion
1688.com is a great platform which you can buy down to bottom cheap price products from China small and medium factories. Considering the payment and language barrier and delivery issues, you need to use a Chinese agent to handle all for you in China. We DavySourcing.com can help you on this. Feel free to contact us info@davysourcing.com
- Help you to get samples before bulk order
- QC inspection before delivery
- Consolidate all products into one package from different suppliers for you.
- Foreign currency exchange service and translation service.
- Arrange delivery to your address by sea, by air or Express.
- Private labeling and customized packaging service.