China Wholesale Reviews

We have introduced a number of popular China based online stores or marketplaces that offer electronics and digital products on this site, including DinoDirect.com (see DinoDirect Review), FocalPrice.com (see FocalPrice Review), Tmart.com (see Tmart Review), Lightinthebox.com, AliExpress.com and much more. If you have read our posts about these stores, you must have noticed that we mentioned “Huaqiangbei” again and again. In this post we’re going to talk about the place in detail.

Located in Shenzhen, Huaqiangbei was originally an industrial park of consumer electronics, computers, electric appliances and communications products. It was then transformed into a huge commercial centre in 1998. Electronic and digital products are the backbone of Huaqiangbei while women’s clothing is equally hot-selling there. In 2008, Huaqiangbei was titled as “China’s No. 1 Electronic Street”. There you can find about one thousand wholesalers and retailers that sell electronics, much more than on any other electronic marketplace in China (including Zhongguancun in Beijing).

Huaqiangbei is not only a great attraction to end consumers in Shenzhen or other cities nearby, but also the biggest wholesale shopping mall where merchants across China stock up on electronics and digital products for their businesses. Also to mention is that almost all Chinese international shopping websites of electronics source products from Huaqiangbei too. That explains why most of the famous online electronic stores are based or keep warehouses in Shenzhen.

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If you are looking for online stores that sell cheap made-in-China electronic gadgets, DinoDirect.com is no doubt one of the top options. But it is definitely not the only choice.

Headquartered in Shenzhen, China, DinoDirect has 10 branch offices and a good number of warehouses around the world. In addition to offering low priced products, the online shop also honors worldwide free shipping. Another huge product line at DinoDirect is a wide range of apparel, including wedding dresses & accessories, special occasion dresses, men’s clothing and women’s clothing. A variety of payment methods are available there. To better protect your interest, you are encouraged to use PayPal when placing orders with DinoDirect or any other international online stores. For more details, read DinoDirect Review.

Based on my research, almost all famous Chinese electronic gadget online shopping sites source their products from Shenzhen, the manufacturing hub of consumer electronics, computer and communications products. In particular, Huaqiangbei, the shopping centre of such products, is the major place where these websites hunt for long-term cooperative partners to get the lowest priced gadgets for their inventories. Besides, most of them offer free shipping to any corner of the world. Here I would like to list some of the best alternatives to Dinodirect where you can shop for equally good gadgets at competitive prices.

DealExtreme.com

When you find a cool gadget of desire at DinoDirect.com, I would highly recommend you to search for the same product at DealExtreme.com first and vice versa. Their prices are usually the lowest on the market. You can compare the price to make a better shopping decision. In my eyes, the two companies are same good in terms of product quality and credibility. DealExtreme provides free shipping and accepts PayPal too.

FocalPrice.com

FocalPrice is another legend in the Chinese arena of electronic gadget foreign trade. Its founder is a talented young man who had made huge success at eBay before he led a team to create the FocalPrice.com. The site has been making huge revenues since it was launched – it never receives any investment from a third party and develops its business completely by the money it has earned. In terms of category completeness, FocalPrice is no second to DinoDirect or DealExtreme or any other China electronic gadget stores. The prices it offers are highly competitive too. Free shipping is honored. PayPal accepted.

ChinaVasion.com

To be frank, I have never seen any pricing advantage at ChinaVasion.com. The Shenzhen-based store seems to specialize in more high-end electronic gadgets. The best-selling products at the store include car DVD players with GPS, tablet PCs, smartphones, cameras, camcorders and more. Accepts PayPal. Free shipping is not available.

Lightinthebox.com & MiniInTheBox.com

Unlike wedding dresses and other special occasion dresses, electronic gadgets are not the major category at Lightinthebox.com. However, the site has really amazing cell phones and tablet PCs made by Chinese manufacturers. For instance, HiPhone became world renowned right from Lightinthebox.com.

As a sister site of Lightinthebox.com, MiniInTheBox.com carries a huge variety of “small gadgets”, such as cell phone accessories, video game accessories, watches and cool toys. Prices are good. Free shipping is available on select items and discounted shipping is frequently offered. Accepts PayPal.

Lightinthebox is the most reputable Chinese B2C and B2B website on the global market. Its company size, credibility and product lines are unbeatable. The best thing to shop with the store is: you may save more hassles.

AliExpress.com

As for wholesale deals on electronic gadgets, AliExpress.com is worth checking out. The site is a transaction platform rather than a store like the above mentioned names. Chances are you may find thousands of direct suppliers or manufacturers of gadgets and get best prices on what you want. In addition, the number of gadgets available at AliExpress.com is second to none. However, you may need more time and energy to find out more reliable sellers there. Buyer protection service is provided by AliExpress.com. The company does not charge buyers for any fees. Instead, it charges sellers for a certain amount of commissions on successful order. Again, I would suggest you use PayPal to ensure online shopping safety.

In Guangzhou, China, there are lots of online wholesale companies, of different sizes. Overall, the majority of such firms are small and medium-sized. Banggood.com is one of the small online shops, based on my personal rating. However, behind the website is a big team led by an ambitious man who has been achieving great success by selling a variety of products at eBay. As I know, the boss of Bandgood had been an airplane driver before he started his business at eBay.

Like many other successful eBay sellers, the founder of Banggood was no longer satisfied with the revenues and achievements he has got at the eBay platform and created an individual website to sell products. Although the website is still young, it is quite mature in product lines, technical support and customer service as the leader has abundant experience in foreign trade management – he had a professional team with sales people, marketing talents, service representatives and tech support guys to assist him in selling products at eBay.

The main areas Banggood.com covers are mostly categories that have helped the man gain huge profits at eBay, including consumer electronics and accessories, apparel and fashion accessories, flashlights & lasers and home & garden. In particular, cell phone accessories (e.g. earphones, cases, chargers, stylus pens, screen protectors, etc.) and LED lights are extremely hot-selling there. Toys, sporting goods, cosplay costumes and motor accessories are the minor areas that are slightly smaller in terms of product line.

The prices Banggood offers are extensively low and competitive as the site’s core target customers are businesses, retailers and resellers. Even for retail orders, wholesale prices are available. The difference is, when you purchase more in a single order, you will get an even lower unit price. You can visit the Banggood.com site to see the detailed pricing – I am sure you will be surprised.

Banggood also provides dropshipping service for its customers who run their own online business at eBay or at individual websites of their own. By dropshipping products from Banggood, these businesses (of whatever size) are able to reduce costs and risks of keeping an inventory.

Though based on my research, Banggood is a legitimate China-based online wholesale shopping site, to ensure that you get a secure shopping experience at Banggood.com, I would suggest you be cautious as much as you can. Choosing a safer payment method like PayPal should be one of the great options to protect your interests. Then, before you decide to build long-term cooperative relationship with the site, you can also place a small order to test the water first.

When I researched the wholesale wedding apparel suppliers in China, I found SooBest.com. By the first glance, SooBest looks like a comprehensive online shopping website selling a variety of products, including clothing, cell phones, electronics, jewelry, watches, handbags, shoes, toys, computers and much more. A closer look to the website reveals that it is basically a wedding apparel online shop and wedding dresses are its major revenue earner. Read this SooBest review on to get more details.

Wedding Apparel & Wedding Accessories

The Wedding Apparel category at SooBest.com covers all kinds of wedding wear: wedding dresses, groom wear, mother-of-the-bride dresses, bridesmaid dresses, junior bridesmaid dresses and wedding accessories. It is, like some other famous Chinese wedding apparel online stores such as Lightinthebox.com and Milanoo.com, a one stop-shop for wholesale wedding supplies. You can find not only trendy but cheap wedding dresses there, but also a vast array of wedding accessories to compliment the wedding outfits, including wedding jewelry, wedding headpieces, wedding shoes, wedding petticoats and wedding corsage.

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In early 2010, a friend mentioned to me FocalPrice.com and asked whether I know this electronic gadget online store or not. My answer was “No.”. To be honest, at that time my focus was all on giant e-commerce websites like Lightinthebox.com and AliExpress.com. The friend told me FocalPrice is widely known among stores around Huaqiangbei, the famous trading centre of consumer electronics, computing products and communications products (3C) in the Shenzhen city. Months ago, I started to extend my attention to smaller China-based international shopping sites and have posted reviews of some such sites. Below is what I’ve learnt about FocalPrice.com.

Created by Peiliang Li at his early 20’s in 2008, the customer base of FocalPrice grew quickly as the young man has already developed plenty of customers with his team at eBay. Many small and medium-sized Chinese foreign trade websites have similar stories. They are established because their founders are no longer satisfied with the success they have achieved at eBay as big sellers – they want their own websites to further expand their businesses. However, not all such sites turn out successful. FocalPrice is one of the few that survive well. It earns huge revenues every year and it never needs to attract any venture capital to keep itself go on.

FocalPrice specializes in the 3C product lines and offers a variety of electronic gadgets to global buyers. Popular items there include accessories for Apple devices (iPhone4, iPhone 4S, iPad, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, Mac, iPod Nano, iPod Touch, iPod classic), made-in-China cell phones, Chinese featured tablet PCs and laptops and accessories, car accessories and lots more. Both wholesale and retail orders are accepted and dropshipping service is available. When it comes to the China wholesale electronic market, FocalPrice is ranked the third in my personal list, following DinoDirect.com (see DinoDirect Review) and ChinaVasion.com (see ChinaVasion Review).

If the complete collection of electronic gadgets is one big reason for the great success FocalPrice.com has made, the competitive pricing should be another equally big reason. Generally, the prices FocalPrice offers are 10%-17% lower than market wholesale prices (and times lower than market retail prices). The fact that most of FocalPrice’s cooperative suppliers come from Huaqiangbei well explains why the site is able to offer such low factory prices. As I mentioned above, Huaqiangbei is the hub of electronic shops. Almost every shop there has one or more factories behind. By building long-term business relationships with such shops, FocalPrice can always get the bottom manufacturing prices in order to enhance its own competitive capacities. As I know, the supplier network of FocalPrice is extremely huge.

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When I was compiling the list of China wholesalers of electronic gadgets, I found Tmart.com. At first glance, Tmart.com looks no difference from other online electronic gadget stores. Anyway, the Nextage Seller mark displayed at the bottom of its homepage caught my attention. I did some research then, trying to dig out more valuable information about the shop. Here I would like to share my findings, though what I finally got is quite limited.

On the Tmart.com website, I noticed that no phone call information is indicated. Instead, I only found a Hong Kong mailing address. I asked one of their customer service representatives, the girl told me that their head office is indeed located in Hong Kong, but they have some warehouses across the world and their biggest warehouses are in the US, the UK and Hong Kong.

I believe Tmart does have warehouses in different countries and regions as the store provides worldwide free shipping. Based on my knowledge, many other China wholesale shopping websites of electronics or electronic gadgets do the same way: they cooperate with overseas warehouses to stock and deliver their goods while running their business through their websites and working at offices in the mainland China or Hong Kong, e.g. DinoDirect.com.

However, for their Hong Kong-headquartered part, I still have my doubts. At Tmart, you can use live chat or email to reach their customer service team, but you can’t find any phone call number. Besides, Google tells me that the company address is used by different companies. Anyway, I didn’t mean Tmart is probably a scammer. One of my Chinese friends registered her small firm in Hong Kong while doing business with her global customers in Shenzhen. I know she is a completely honest person and doing serious business. Many Chinese people choose to register their companies in Hong Kong simply to reduce all kinds of costs and to raise their customers’ confidence. After all, Hong Kong is an internationally famous city with high enterprise credibility. Tmart may be one of such companies. From my research, the Tmart office should be located in Fuzhou, Fujian Province of China – I am not quite sure though.

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