2013 June Newsletter: Anti-Scam — Fraud Protection Service

Following the ever increasing number of claims regarding scams and frauds buying remotely in China, even using protection programs like Gold Suppliers from Alibaba, the risk of using B2B platforms is still real. To answer your concerns, we establish a new simple and easy service to help the buyers taking right decisions before it is too late.

The concept is simple, you like to buy a product from a new supplier and you are not sure it
is a trusted supplier, but you have to prepay the merchandise. In this case, SAOS will help reduce the risk by proven checking steps with due diligence:

– Identify
and evaluate consistency of company details and risk. For example, a 1-month old company is an uncontrolled risk.

– Check third party databases like export, customs, B2B,…

– Call the main contact for basic investigation through our experienced team and well-designed questions.

– Check claims databases.

The result is provided within 24h and you will receive a report by email with a score that
indicates the risk level of the supplier, from 0% (obvious scam) to 100% (fully safe). Because the customers should not suffer from scamming, we offer this service free for European companies during the launching period, to familiarize with the service. Further and deeper investigations
are also possible in case of doubts.

In addition, SAOS can provide extra protection services being third party for the transactions
and inspecting the products before payment and delivery, as well as using third parties dedicated to payment warranty like Paypal.

Please contact us for more information

Sourcing from China

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Choosing a China OEM manufacturer: A practical guide: “The major and initial issue in choosing a Chinese manufacturer is determining whether the manufacturer is “real” or not”.

 How to stop your Chinese supplier from becoming your competitor:“Though there are, of course, particular protections you can and should employ depending on what you are doing in China, it will almost always make sense for you do to do the following four things”.(Video)

 Sourcing product from China. An in depth look: “Patent protection in China is subject to novelty, inventiveness and practicability”.

E-Commerce in China : Taobao

 Online Marketing Strategy for Your Venture on Chinese Market : There is no fixed mode of marketing when onliine. Because it changes so quickly! All strategies that can promote your business efficiently are best ones.

 Owning a Taobao.com shop: a national hobby : “Such is Taobao’s success in China these days that running a “Taobao shop” is a national pastime, sort of like a second job, or hobby, for tens of thousands of Chinese office workers, housewives and university students”
 Taobao’s hardcore fans support the company’s growth : “I always tell my friends: I work to make money, and the money is to buy things on Taobao (…) Taobao is like a man for whom I have bitter-sweet feelings”.

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