Buying deskNot the verification service
From this page on, we are a seller.
Use this buying desk when you have a product, quantity and destination and want one seller to buy, check, pack and ship the order from China. You receive a versioned, line-item quote before deciding whether to pay. Here we are your counterparty and have an interest in you buying from us, so verify us before payment too. If you want to check 1688 sellers independently, that guide works whether or not you ever use this desk.
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Use this desk for a quoted, checked and tracked goods order.
It is for business buyers who can state the product, quantity and destination. You receive an itemised quote, a pre-shipment check and DAP tracking; eligibility, import duties and destination compliance remain your responsibility. Check eligibility, then request a quote.
A company that both checks suppliers and sells goods has an obvious conflict: every negative finding could be self-serving. That is why the buying desk and verification service stay separate.
What changes when you cross onto this page
On the verification side our output is conclusion-free by design: dated records, named sources, stated limits, and no advice about who to work with. That position is not modesty. An independent checker cannot honestly hold any other.
Here that position does not apply. If we quote you, we profit from the order. The same logic applies to any agent who finds your supplier and offers to check that supplier for free: they are marking their own homework. Ask who they answer to if the deal falls through: what independent checking actually means. So the sensible way to read this page is the way you would read any seller’s page.
The line we will not cross: we will never verify a supplier for you and then offer to replace them with ourselves. Not because we promise not to. A promise alone means little, but because the rule is written into our build and checked on every deploy. If a page anywhere in the verification service ever starts recommending an alternative supplier, the build fails.
If you are here for the independent check and not for goods, that side of the desk is here and nothing on this page affects it.
Switching from a commission agent? Three things change. 1. The price stops being one number. A commission looks transparent until you realise the buying price used to calculate it is not shown to you. Our quote breaks out goods, China-side logistics, checking, packing, freight and our margin as separate lines. You can hold the goods line against the 1688 or Taobao page you sent us. 2. An accepted order has a written pack. It includes the accepted quote version, verified-payment confirmation, a commercial invoice in your company’s name, packing list and tracking: the full list is here. 3. When goods are wrong, there is nobody to point at. We bought them, so the accepted specification is ours to answer for; the claims process is the whole conversation and never a three-way argument.
Payment terms, stated plainly because they are restrictive
Payment clears before goods move. We do not extend credit, we do not offer net-30 or net-60, and we do not ship against a purchase order alone.
That is not a negotiating position we soften for a large enough order. It is a description of what we can actually carry. We have not built a balance sheet, so we cannot finance your inventory. A supplier who agrees to terms it cannot fund is a supplier who fails you in month three. If your purchasing process requires terms, we are the wrong counterparty today, and knowing that in the first minute is worth more to you than a quote.
What this buys you in exchange: no hidden financing cost priced back into the unit, and a very small first order is welcome precisely because nobody is carrying anybody.
What protects the money you send, all of it already in the trade terms, repeated here because a protection nobody reads protects nobody:
- The channel is named on your quote, and only that channel. Today that means PayPal, a hosted checkout that takes a card without a PayPal account, or international bank transfer. It is sent as a goods-and-services payment. Whether PayPal's own buyer protection applies to a given order is decided by PayPal's terms, the transaction and your country. Its published programme lists items intended for resale as ineligible, single items included, and a sourcing order is usually exactly that. So treat that cover as absent here. We will never ask you to send it as friends and family. No message from us will ever ask you to redirect a payment to a different account.
- Nothing is bought until your payment is verified on our side. Until that verification completes, you can cancel at no cost.
- Cancellation before we purchase costs nothing. After we purchase, we recover what the situation allows and refund the balance, stating what was already spent and why. The itemised account and the refund decision go to you within five working days of the cancellation, whatever the outcome.
- If the goods do not match the accepted specification, the remedy is evidence-based. It is replacement, or a partial or full refund to the original payment path, as fits the proven gap.
- What is capped: our liability for an order is capped at what you paid for that order. We do not cover your resale outcomes or lost profit. That limit is stated in the terms, and stating it here is not a way of hiding it.
What none of this is: an escrow, a bank guarantee, or a trade-assurance programme. It is a small desk's own written commitments plus whatever protection your payment method gives you. Read them before the first order and never after.
What this desk does not have yet
Written out and never glossed over, because you can check every claim on this page except the ones we do not make:
No established category. We are not a bearings house or a textiles house with fifteen years in one aisle of the trade fair. Anyone telling you they can source anything is telling you they specialise in nothing.
No long-standing factory relationships. Those take years and we have not had years.
No shipping track record to show you. There are no case studies here because there are no cases yet, and inventing them is the behaviour this whole site exists to help buyers detect.
No financing capacity. See the terms above. It is the same fact stated twice, once as a limit and once as a rule.
A first buyer here is taking a risk that a ten-year-old trading house would not ask them to take. The honest thing is to say so, keep the first order small, and let the record accumulate in public.
Start with a product-specific buying route
A sourcing route is narrower than a promise to find anything in China. Each route states the product input it needs, the jobs it excludes and the payment rule before you send a brief.
1688 seller of record for a defined China order — bring a product link or screenshot, specification and first-order quantity. We book export freight at cost; customs duty, finance and credit stay outside the route.
Taobao seller of record for a defined China order, the retail counterpart. Same brief, same payment rule, plus what Chinese law requires a marketplace shop to publish about its own registration.
Choosing who to buy through at all — why searching China’s company register by name cannot find you a sourcing firm, and what separates a seller from an agent when money moves first.
Per-order fulfilment from a wholesale platform — who performs the single-parcel steps, whose name is on the paperwork, and what this desk will not do.
Buying from a shop with no public web page, the disclosure fields a small Chinese shop operator must publish, and what an individually-owned licence looks like.
Going direct to the factory instead, the customs registration that decides who may declare goods out of China, and the cases where you should skip this desk entirely.
The EU €3 parcel duty since 1 July 2026, what the Council adopted, which shipments the interim rate covers, and why a mixed sample parcel now costs more than a single-category one.
The pages that govern every route we run: what we accept and decline · trade terms · shipping and claims.
Whichever route you take, the record checks themselves are yours to run. The USCI checker validates a credit code in your browser. The payment-party checker compares the contract, invoice and bank names against each other, free, nothing uploaded, and applicable to this desk as much as to anyone you found yourself.
Как найти поставщика из Китая, a Russian-language editorial guide to finding a supplier and checking the legal entity before payment. It is not a buying-desk offer.
What we do have: our own record, checked the same way
On this desk we sell goods, never record-reading. The obvious question is still whether we survive the check a buyer would run on us. That means a registered entity, a current status, a scope that covers what we claim to do, and nothing adverse on the public record.
We publish our own record before asking buyers to demand transparency from anyone else, and to the same standard. That means registered name, unified credit code, status, and the date each was retrieved. Who we are · how this desk is put together.
Here they are, on this page with no extra click: 济南深与国际贸易有限公司 (Jinan Shenyu International Trade Co., Ltd.), Unified Social Credit Code 91370105MAKM7P5L3P. You can run that code through the same checker buyers use on suppliers. The person is named too: one person reads the brief, releases the purchase and answers the claim.
That is evidence about identity and standing. It is not evidence that we can source your product well: nothing published can be, before the first order ships.
The check we would run on a sourcing agent, including us
On this page we sell goods, and we admit the conflict. The useful thing we can add is the check a buyer should run on any intermediary, and the reason the obvious version of that check does not work. We counted the Chinese register by the labels such firms use, on 22 August 2026.
| Self-description | Companies returned |
|---|---|
| 采购代理 / 外贸代理 / 进出口代理 | 5,000 each: display ceiling |
| 外贸综合服务 | 4,863 |
| 跨境供应链 | 1,443 |
| 代采 (“buying on behalf”) | 163 |
The same work is registered under at least six different self-descriptions, three of which run past the register’s display ceiling. So “find a reputable agent by searching for agents” does not work, and neither does judging one by the category it registered under.
What does work is narrow, and it applies to us as much as to anyone. Get the full Chinese registered name and Unified Social Credit Code of the entity that will take your money. Check it against the register yourself, then confirm it matches the party on your contract. If we ever quote you through a different entity than the one on our imprint, that check is how you would catch it.
Counts name endings, never services offered. No firm is named or recommended.
The six steps between a brief and a delivered order
There is no order button anywhere on this desk, and that is the design, never a gap. The path is:
- You submit a structured brief: product link, specification, quantity, destination.
- A person reviews it against the admission rules: supplier, destination, logistics, margin.
- A private, versioned quote with a 48-hour expiry, or an honest decline.
- Payment, verified on our side: 100% up front, single currency, to the entity named on the quote.
- Purchase and pre-shipment check, only after a person confirms the verified payment.
- DAP shipment with online tracking, on a delivery window written into your quote. Lead time depends on the factory and route, so the binding window appears on your quote before you pay. Under Delivered At Place, we bring the goods to your address while local import duties remain yours. If anything arrives wrong, use the claims process.
What a quote includes and excludes is written on the quote itself: goods, China-side logistics, checking, packing, international freight and our margin are in — and the quote itself breaks those out as separate lines. So you can put the goods line next to the 1688 or Taobao page you sent us and see exactly what the desk is charging for its work. We do not bury a margin inside a single all-in number. Your import duties, taxes, licences and destination compliance are out. That is the DAP split, stated before money moves and never discovered at the border. No fictional “from” price appears on this page because a real quote depends on the product, the quantity and the destination. A number printed here would be marketing and no price.
The first order we most welcome is a sample order: one to five pieces, tracked to your door, so the main order is priced against goods you have held. Small is not a compromise here. It is the design.
Request a business quote See what we cannot accept
What does the file of such an order look like before you send anything? A specimen order walks the whole record: a real dry-run quote with provenance labels, and every unoccurred event labelled as unoccurred.
The first-order rules, before you pay:
| Rule | What it means for your first order |
|---|---|
| Order size | First orders stay at about US$500 or less. Sample orders of 1 to 5 pieces are welcome. |
| Payment | 100% prepayment, in one payment, to the entity named on the quote. |
| Purchase timing | We buy nothing until your payment is verified. Before we purchase, you can cancel at no cost. |
| Substitutions | Any substitution needs a new quote version that you accept first. |
| Shipping | Goods ship DAP, by a carrier with online tracking. |
| Claims | Claims run on written evidence, within the stated windows. |
The full trade terms control where this summary compresses them.
Prefer email? hello@currawongweb.com reaches the same person, the form just saves a round of questions. We do not collect payment on this page or the form; quotations are private, and no goods are ordered until funds have cleared and been verified. The full rules of the deal: trade terms.
| Measurement | What it establishes | Frame | Taken |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registered-scope count | How often certified manufacturers carry import-export wording (74.6%) | 264 companies, whole frame | 8 Aug 2026 |
| Change-log count | How fast the official record moves: 54.9% amended within 12 months, median 39 changes | Same 264 companies | 8 Aug 2026 |
| Official-source availability | Whether official verification hosts serve their front page: five of eight did not | 8 hosts × 3 requests × 2 user agents, 2 controls | 8 Aug 2026 |
| Check-character strength | USCI catches 100% of single-character errors; VIN catches 92.5% | 2.9 million injected errors, fixed seed | 9 Aug 2026 |
| Single-result confirmation | What a name search returns: 42.5% nothing, 50.9% exactly one row | 106 manufacturers, whole frame | 18 Aug 2026 |
| Delivery-path measurement | Which report lines can be read automatically: 134 of 153 | 153-line menu, whole frame | 22 Aug 2026 |
We keep the number of figures on these pages low. Where a figure appears, it traces to one of these measurements. Industry rules of thumb are not used.
Questions buyers ask
On this page, are you checking suppliers or selling to me?
Selling. From this page on we are your counterparty and we profit from the order. Read it the way you would read any seller’s page. The verification service stays conclusion-free and is unaffected by anything here. Checking us before you pay is the intended use. It is not an awkward request.
Would you check a supplier for me and then offer to replace them?
No, and that is not a promise. The rule is written into the build. If any page in the verification service ever starts recommending an alternative supplier, the build fails. A promise alone would be worth little here, because the incentive to break it is obvious.
Do you offer payment terms, or ship against a purchase order?
No. Payment clears before goods move. This is not a negotiating position that softens for a large enough order. It is a description of what the desk can carry. Your quote breaks out goods, China-side logistics, checking, packing, freight and margin as separate lines, so you can see what you are paying for before you decide.
How we checked
Market-size counts come from name-suffix searches in the registry, with the search cap and its limits stated. Availability figures come from requests to the official portals, each with its status and elapsed time recorded, repeated on later dates with the date beside the number. The most recent query date on this page is 22 August 2026. Where a table carries its own date, that date governs.
The official pages we read are listed on this page with the date each was accessed, so every figure can be re-checked at source.
Start small: one order, shown as a full file.
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Official sources this page relies on
We sell as principal instead of acting as your agent. The Chinese rules shaping that position are published. Links were checked on 6 September 2026.
- NPC Standing Committee: Foreign Trade Law amendmentNo separate trading licence stands between a supplier and an export order.
- Customs Decree No. 253: filing of declaration entitiesOn an order we sell, that entity is us.
- SAMR: Regulation on market-entity registrationThe scope on file has to cover the trade being done.
This describes the legal shape of the arrangement. It is not legal advice, and a specific shipment is a question for your customs broker.