Import/Export Trade

Import/Export Trade

Avoid fake suppliers and buyers
know your Internet Risks ...

In doing business on the internet we must rely on much more than our
normal trusty "sixth sense". Some say anything less than "extreme care"
is a certain way to lose money when dealing with a potential supplier
(or buyer) over the internet.

The internet is plagued with resourceful criminals who will spend months
building a relationship under cover of professional looking websites
complete with sending high quality samples they do not actually sell.
They even steal the passwords of genuine suppliers' websites. So, at
times, you don't know who you are really talking with on the other end.
And, these criminals have been known to set up temporary real offices to
give you the comfort of a real street address and phone number when you
cross-check. Or, they copy the name and address of a real registered
company onto a fake website, and so on. Variations in the criminal mind
are endless in sophisticated schemes to steal your money.



business-to-business ('B2B') portals does not and cannot represent to
you that all it's supplier members are genuine. On B2B you have
thousands of very genuine and reliable suppliers - more genuine
suppliers than anywhere else on the web. But, as elsewhere, B2B is
infiltrated both by criminals and shoddy manufacturers.



The price to you of free membership in any B2B website is (a) take time
to be aware of the unreliable nature of the internet (b) very carefully
investigate a supplier once you enter into serious negotiations.
Otherwise, B2B websites would have to charge big money for membership
for themselves to check out all the listed suppliers for you. There are
no free lunches in this world.



Good news is there are 1,000s of genuine suppliers on B2B It's just a
matter of using extreme care to sort the wheat from the chaff.