yankimusic said:
Hello,
After several questions by email, I still have not received a response from you Chung.
I have already ordered several products on your site, I am very disappointed not to have received an answer to my question.
I thought this was a mutual-aid forum and not a mass market.
I wanted to make realize a headbasket for T-Bone microphone for some of my friends.
The Alctron factory can not make me such Headbasket.
I just wanted to know what is your metal factory of Headbaskets so I could ask them, because I have contacts in China, I can get a smaller MOQ. I understand that you do not want to disclose this information, but it seems to me that this forum is a mutual-aid for DIY user.
Best.
Yanki
Hello Yanki,
I respectfully decline to reveal the specific factories that I work with and disclose my industry contacts inside of China to anyone who asks on the internet at this time. I am still relatively new to the manufacture and import business and am still learning the ropes and blundering through the various ins and outs of developing good working relationships with the right suppliers.
A lot of doors open up through referrals, but the tricky part about it is, the reputation of the person who is doing the referring rides on who they refer. My first contact inside of China came from a friend who I had been doing A/V install work in the US with for more than 7 years. He referred me based on his confidence in my ability to foster a mutually beneficial and profitable relationship with the contact he referred me to inside of China based on our long-standing relationship. If I deal poorly with my new Chinese contact, it reflects poorly on my friend.
I am just starting out with many of my Chinese vendors and contacts and need to establish a good track record and that simply takes time. While I am in my 1st or 2nd production run, I can ill-afford to refer people that I do not know very well because it would reflect poorly on me if something goes wrong. Once I generate 10, 20, 30, 100 good deals and along the way, successfully refer a few of my closer friends and collaborators, I might be able to be less selective about who I refer directly to my long-standing partners overseas. .. but in the beginning before I have established a reputation of being a valuable customer, I need to be careful and focus on working out my internal problems.
This may not be how many people operate, but it is how I am trying to move forward.
I believe I contribute to the collective knowledge base in many ways and am much more "open source" about what I'm up to than many vendors and manufacturers. I also document and evangelize other people's kits and products with the same enthusiasm here. Or, I try to be anyways. But, there is tremendous personal risk every time I pull the trigger on a large-quantity order from a Chinese factory because there is no guarantee that the product will be to the required quality standard or for that matter, even work. I will take the wise advise of people who have done this much longer than I have and unapologetically retain some proprietary information in regards to my parts sources.
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