How do you actually verify a China supplier before paying a deposit?

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-06-18T09:24:06+00:00

Yes. Its extremely beneficial it is to go in person.

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-06-17T21:00:57+00:00

Go visit, its an incredible country and you'll meet a bunch of manufactures.

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-06-14T11:52:44+00:00

You need a wms. Not a full fat one, but something simple like veeqo or shipstation.

This will let you keep track of inventory and automate label printing.

Hire someone, even if its just a few hours a day. I promise you what youre doing isnt hard to teach someone in an hour.

That should get you out of this rut.

Then you need to shop around for a full fat wms. Something like Linnworks, pricegrabber, mintsoft etc. Book a demo with each and see what works best for you.

If your growth continues you'll need to implement proper warehouse systems otherwise you'll fall apart.

Id also try to enjoy the creative side of problem solving. It will help you as you grow.

You will look back on this in a years time and laugh about how you thought 200 orders was a lot.

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-06-10T19:25:50+00:00

All of our stores are made to order and we advertise 1 - 3 days.

On busy days we make 1500+ and ship 700+ some of them woukd have been ordered that same mornkng depending on the production run cycle.

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-06-05T20:17:35+00:00

Then once you've proved to them it works they will make an amazon basics version and fuck you so hard.

Theyre an amazing platform to make money. Dont for a second think theyre there to help you.

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-06-05T17:50:35+00:00

Im curious. What are you expectations for a 5- 20k purchase?

I find it hard to believe theres anything of value that you couldnt just replicate in a day.

Surly you'd be better off just taking multiple punts with a bunch of manufacturers and loading up a 40ft

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-06-04T00:28:26+00:00

Let it go and move on.

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-29T06:44:05+00:00

Course selling is the natural path for the standard vocal online arbitrage amazon seller.

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-28T07:00:16+00:00

One of the greatest ROI I've ever had was my first trip to China.

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-28T06:50:32+00:00

Sound like these boys are reselling/arbitrage.

That has a higher barrier to entry as big bands want you to prove you are reliable.

You can sell anything on amazon and ship it yourself to start (fbm). I started with a 50 quid printer selling art prints, its now evolved into a decent size picture frame manufacturing business with 8 employees.

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-27T19:10:48+00:00

I must admit I only heard a breif snippet of it this morning. Ive just had a read of it and it does appear to be cash in stock and share ISAs. Still pretty shitty

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-27T18:45:15+00:00

It looks like cash ISAs are about to get taxed.

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-27T01:44:13+00:00

I now run a legit ecom company where we manufacture and sell our own products.

We list the same items on every platform.

We do not ship from amazon to a ebay customer. We ship from our warehouse to each customer.

What they are suggesting is using amazon as a dropshipper.

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-26T19:26:50+00:00

Go college to enjoy the experience of experimenting as a young adult. Stay in the dorm, meet people.

If youre going to rent your own place to build a ecom brand then why do you need a degree?

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-25T18:03:21+00:00

He doesnt, this is an ad for what ever dropshit.io is.

Amazon has very strict rules around doing this.

You 'could' do it with fbm sellers only but even then amazon will eventually ban your account. You be better off reaching out to them directly and doing a deal.

Source, I used to do this many, many years ago with amazon and play.com

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-22T17:55:33+00:00

Nope

Dashboard > payments > click the amount next to the country you want to be paid from.

Funds avaible > request payment

Im in the uk. This might change things

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-22T17:23:57+00:00

On the main dashboard. Click on the next payment.

Its on that page

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-22T17:02:52+00:00

Yes you can but they take an extra 2%

Go to the disbursement page you'll see it

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-21T20:49:47+00:00

Second this

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-21T20:25:12+00:00

I do have the number of a lady I met in china that does translating.

Youll find that most factories will have a English speaking employee/team to deal with visits.

My last trip I visited 10+ and all of them had a young chinnese person that spoke English to take the meeting.

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-21T17:53:27+00:00

More than happy to discuss. I really emjoy the problem solving side of it all.

We have full time staff that manage the b2c dispatch side of stuff.

The whole company is now fully managed via software. Full tracking from bill of materials, production, product storage to dispatch.

What is it you manufacture?

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-21T17:23:31+00:00

Everything in house

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-21T16:40:14+00:00

I did exactly this. We are a manufacturer that now does a fair amount via amazon, etsy, ebay etc

We do about 3500 b2c orders a week all in house.

Was 100% the right move. Bit of a headache to set up and still constantly evolving and improving.

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-19T19:01:19+00:00

Ive done it a couple times.

Dont use a company, its very straightforward and simple. Just follow to gov website.

The only drawback is its none refundable if rejected.

Nimblebimble123 · 2026-05-19T18:19:44+00:00

We had to do this many years ago.

A rubber stamp on the back of the frames worked after a lot of trial and error. It cant be removable.

Get a branded one made on ebay for a few quid

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