Sourcing & FBA
Most UK sellers buy from a trading company without knowing it, pay a margin they cannot see, and find out about quality problems when the reviews arrive. We work directly with manufacturers, in Mandarin, in your interest.
Our China supplier advantage
Eight things we do that decide whether a product makes money. Most sellers try to do them from a laptop in the UK, at a six thousand mile distance, in a second language.
We find the manufacturer, not the middleman.
Most UK sellers buy from a trading company without realising it and pay a hidden margin on every unit forever. We identify and verify the actual factory: business licence, export history and a video walk of the production line.
Our volume, your price.
We consolidate orders across our client base, so a first order gets pricing a first-time buyer would never be quoted. That difference is often what makes a product viable.
Inspected before the balance is paid.
Once you have paid in full and the container has sailed, your leverage is gone. We inspect against a written checklist, photograph what we find, and hold the balance payment until it is right.
Sea, rail or air, compared on landed cost.
We price all three against your lead time and cash position rather than defaulting to whatever the supplier quotes, then book and track it.
Duty, VAT and customs handled properly.
Commodity codes classified correctly, EORI and deferment in place, incoterms chosen to suit you. This is where first-time importers lose money quietly.
Straight into Amazon, not into your garage.
Goods delivered direct to your FBA warehouse, booked in against your shipment plan, so you are not handling pallets or paying to store and forward them yourself.
To Amazon's spec, first time.
FNSKU labels, polybags, suffocation warnings, carton marking and box weights done at source. Rejected shipments are expensive and slow to fix from six thousand miles away.
Your brand on the shelf, not a generic.
Custom product, packaging, inserts and manuals produced at source, with tooling and minimum order quantities negotiated on your behalf.
Tell us the product and we will tell you which parts matter and which you can safely skip. Mon to Fri, 9am to 6pm UK.
Also included
We find and shortlist factories for your product, not trading-company middlemen.
All negotiation handled in Mandarin, in your interest, with specs written down.
Our combined order volume gets you pricing a first-time buyer cannot ask for.
Pre-shipment inspection against an agreed checklist, with photographs.
Multiple quotes per product so you see the real market, not one number.
Sea, rail or air compared on landed cost and lead time, then booked.
Commodity codes, duty rates, customs paperwork and VAT handled properly.
Goods delivered into your FBA warehouse, not to your garage.
FNSKU labelling, polybagging and carton marking done to Amazon spec.
Your brand on the product, with tooling and MOQ negotiated for you.
Boxes, inserts and manuals designed and produced at source.
Quality control
Once you have paid in full and the container has sailed, your leverage is gone. We inspect against a written checklist agreed with you, photograph what we find, and hold the balance payment until it is right.
| Supplier verification | Business licence, export history and a video walk of the production line. We confirm you are buying from the factory. |
|---|---|
| Written specification | Materials, dimensions, tolerances, packaging and labelling agreed in writing before tooling starts. |
| Sample approval | Golden sample signed off by you and retained as the reference for the production run. |
| Pre-shipment inspection | AQL sampling against the checklist, with a photographic report before the balance is released. |
| FBA compliance | Carton marking, FNSKU labels, polybagging and suffocation warnings to Amazon's current spec. |
Import support
The paperwork is where first-time importers lose money quietly. Wrong commodity code, wrong incoterm, no EORI, import VAT paid and never reclaimed.
Classified correctly at the outset, so the duty you budget for is the duty you pay.
FOB, EXW, DDP compared on real landed cost rather than on whichever the supplier prefers to quote.
Import VAT accounted for so it is reclaimed rather than written off, and cash flow planned around it.
Run your product through the calculator, then let us tell you what we would do with it.
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