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How to Select the Appropriate Chinese suppliers For Musical Instruments

China has become a veritable “world factory”, it should be said that the people all over the world are enjoying a “made in China” merchandise. How to purchase in China? Who are your best suppliers? How to get the merchandise you wanted in the most economical way? These are the questions that all of the buyers should be considered. 

There are two basic ways to choose suppliers in China. One is directly from factory; another way is purchase through the trading company. A lot of foreign buyers consider that they can get more favorable price directly purchase from the factory than through trade company. Sure it is. During the purchasing cost,the price of product is indeed accounted for nearly 90%. But is that the most favorable price be the lowest purchasing cost? In light of our experiences over the years, let’s talk about as following and hope it could help the buyer from oversea market a little.  

1.  The industry’s professionalism.

Our company is engaged in professional musical instruments more than 10 years, start from making white violins which exported toJapan. The people engaged in the production of violins all know that, the production of white violin is the basic of violin production. All the problems will be exposed to the white violin.Therefore, when we select the suppliers, we already have our own a complete set of screening methods. In addition, we also have a professional fiddler personally tested, whether from the process or the tone are carefully selected. On this point, the vast majority of Chinese factories are very difficult to do that. There is no professional inspectors, no violin player. They just make the violin which only can make out the voice. As for some work and painting, there are even more problems, such as the location of the installation is incorrect, bridge repair is not correct, etc. And even some so-called factories are only 1-2 individuals. When guests order, they can make dozens or even over 100 violins in a very short period. Actually a lot of violins are purchased from other place. The violins are all different every time. Can they guarantee the quality of the violins? Receiving the goods every time that are inconsistent, how to sell them? There are a lot of our customers also be regarded as the Chinese hand, in cooperation with us before and have worked with a lot of factories, but each time they were very dissatisfied with the products, or even feel that they are deceived, and received goods often have to throw half away. So that how to save the cost. 

2.  Professional communication.

In China, many factories’ staff does not speak English, so the communication is a very headache problem. Even though there is a lot of factories now found a lot of English major students to do the translation, but they can not translate the professional instruments knowledge. We usually see at the factory that the works can not do some of the details in the order, or even they failed to understand. Some of our customers also complained that the factory give no reply to their requirements. And received goods are much difference with their own demands. Actually the people in these factories are not to ignore him but did not understand. On this point, because our company is a professional violin maker and exporter, we are quite proficient of these products’ details, descriptions and the English name of any parts. Over the years, our company’s professionalism is praised by a lot of our customers.  ( To be continued)