DHgate.com is a Beijing-based China wholesale website serving Chinese sellers and global buyers. If Alibaba is the forerunner of the first generation of e-commerce in China, DHgate is no doubt the founder and leader of the second generation. Unlike Alibaba, DHgate does not “sell information” to sellers and buyers, but “sells services” to both parties.
Target Clients & Wholesale Volume
As a transaction platform, DHgate targets mainly at small and medium-sized buyers from all over the world—wholesale quantity can be as low as 1 piece only. For some items offered on DHgate.com, you can get a very low wholesale price for a remarkably small order. If you are a business owner selling either online or offline to your customers, sourcing your items from DHgate.com can be a most economic choice as there you will find a lot of sellers offering the item you want at unbeatable wholesale prices. And the best thing is, you have many price options to choose from!
Buyer Protection—Escrow Service
Safety is always the first and foremost concern for online shopping. DHgate has an authoritative buyer protection system—Escrow. Every transaction on DHgate will be fully protected by this system. When a buyer places an order and makes the payment for it. The payment will arrive in DHgate’s account not the seller’s account. DHgate will not release the payment to the seller until the buyer confirms that he/she has received the order and is happy with the order received. DHgate has been doing serious business since 2004 and its buyer protection system works quite smoothly. As a buyer, you can be confident that the money you pay to DHgate.com will meet your expectation. Otherwise, you can apply for a refund or return to protect your interest.
Sellers & Items
All sellers on DHgate.com are registered members. When they register, a professional team from DHgate will verify their qualifications through checking their business license and other legal certificates. Only verified sellers can become DHgate’s members and sell items on the China wholesale website. But like many other online wholesale website, fraudulent and scam sellers are a headache for DHgate. For years, DHgate has been trying hard to crack down fraudulent or scam sellers. And they always severely punish these sellers to maintain a good transaction environment.
The items sold on DHgate cover a wide range of categories. The biggest categories available on DHgate.com include apparel, consumer electronics, computers & networking, shoes, bags & accessories, home & garden, etc. All these items are made in China and most are offered directly by factories or manufactures.That is why you can always get the lowest prices for the item you want there.
Customer Service
As a foreign trade marketplace, DHgate does not sell items itself, but offers transaction services to buyers and sellers. It supervises and engages in the whole transaction process from when the order is place, through when payment is made, to when finally the transaction is completed and the payment is released. DHgate has a big and professional customer service team serving global buyers for issues like product inquiry, payment, dispute and any other help a buyer may need.If you have any problem with your purchase on DHgate.com, you can either call them at +86-10-82257676 or email them at service@dhgate.com (Office Hours: Mon-Sun 9:00am to 6:00pm (GMT +08:00)).
Founder & CEO
Diane Wang, a successful female entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of DHgate.com. Diane Wang has been very famous in China’s Internet arena. Years ago, she was the CEO of Joyo.com, a top B2C brand in China, which was acquired by Amazon.com.
Diane Wang’s outstanding career performance has got high recognition in China. So far she has received “Outstanding Woman of China” and “Outstanding Woman of Beijing” awards—two of the highest forms of recognition given to professional women in China, and “Top 10 IT People of 2002″ and “Top 10 Women Executive of 2002″ awards.
China Wholesale Marketplaces You Should Know
Similar wholesale websites:
- Lightinthebox.com
- Milanoo.com
- DavisMicro.com
- Uxcell.com
(Note: Some of the links in this post are my referral links. Read my disclosure policy here.)
December 19th, 2009 at 1:01 am
[...] items in wrong sizes, colors or styles. It was a huge mistake. DHgate is a transaction platform, a China wholesale site for small and medium sized merchants, bridging millions of global buyers and Chinese sellers or manufacturers. They do not send orders [...]
January 6th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
[...] DHgate.com has recently added a new search option into the search preferences area: Rock-Bottom Specials. If you want to find out the lowest priced deals under certain category or on any item, tick off the “Rock-Bottom Specials” link on any item listing page, then you will be directed to the listing exclusive for items that are offered at bottom prices—you won’t find any similar item at cheaper price elsewhere on the wholesale website DHgate. [...]
January 6th, 2010 at 11:24 pm
[...] DHgate’s homepage, we see promotions being updated regulary–banners located in the upper [...]
January 6th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
[...] has gone completely online. China has a number of great e-commerce websites to choose from, and DHgate is among the best online marketplaces for wholesalers or retailers as the website targets mainly at [...]
January 6th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
[...] other day when I visited DHgate, I was shocked by the vast array of Christmas items, I asked myself: “is Christmas coming [...]
January 6th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
[...] millions of global buyers and Chinese sellers are trading with each other there. Founded in 2004, DHgate now boasts over 10 million product listings from more than 100,000 dedicated Chinese suppliers. [...]
January 6th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
[...] example, DHgate surprised me just now when I noticed that a Halloween symbol had been added to its logo section, [...]
January 7th, 2010 at 2:13 am
[...] a certain sum of fees on every completed transaction. This has just paved the way leading to DHgate’s success. And now DHgate seems to be enlarging its market share painstakingly – I notice that [...]
January 7th, 2010 at 10:47 am
[...] a look at the Wholesale Valentine’s Gifts promotional page on DHgate, you will see that all items there are offered at significantly slashed-down prices–much much [...]
January 7th, 2010 at 11:46 pm
[...] offer the best prices because. Finally, this offer goes with a Guaranteed Return Policy, in which DHgate promises that if you are in any way dissatisfied with the items purchased, you have up to three [...]
January 7th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
[...] If you are interested in sourcing items from China wholesale marketplaces for your resale business, but not confident enough in trading on the China-based wholesale websites like Alibaba, DHgate, LightInTheBox, etc, then don’t miss out the Wholesale Prices Sample Offers launched by DHgate recently. [...]
January 8th, 2010 at 12:02 am
[...] the “new” items. For those who are looking for some new business opportunity, i think DHgate’s What’s New can be a fantastic [...]
January 8th, 2010 at 12:04 am
[...] page. It seems that DHgate is trying hard to boost the promotion of the new zone as we see the China wholesale marketplace started to offer US$15 coupon on deals in ‘What’s New’ from April [...]
January 8th, 2010 at 12:07 am
[...] we noticed that the famed China wholesale website DHgate has made some changes to its homepage. The “Promotions” tag used to be located at the [...]
January 8th, 2010 at 12:09 am
[...] electronics, home & garden items, sporting goods, games, cell phones and more. It seems DHgate updates the item listings in DHfactory every week. And most items there are the newest hot-selling [...]
January 8th, 2010 at 12:13 am
[...] promotional activities about apparel or clothing both of the past and of the present. This year, DHgate has launched countless promotion campaigns exclusively on apparel items. Among all, women’s [...]
January 8th, 2010 at 12:18 am
[...] international buyers from more than 200 countries and regions. As an online transaction platform, DHgate is best known for its innovative business [...]
January 20th, 2010 at 10:45 am
[...] every woman has an innate affection for high heels. Luckily, now in marketplace such as DHgate high heels come in various colors and styles and ladies have so many options to choose from. [...]
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:20 am
Ordered NFL jerseys from two different sellers. Two jerseys from seller “jersey-shop-23″ were top quality, and I’m very satisfied with the seller. But the third one I ordered from “jerseyspace” was a low quality reject. I would never recommend “jerseyspace” to anyone.
January 26th, 2010 at 11:55 am
[...] to my research, DHgate and Lightinthebox are the best China-based wholesale websites to source wholesale wedding apparel [...]
February 6th, 2010 at 5:06 am
[...] and equipment to repair cars and improve cars’ performance. Wholesale car accessories offered on DHgate cover a wide range of categories from the necessary air tools and diagnostic tools to the [...]
February 6th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
More Good Information:
***BEWARE*** DHgate is a JOKE!!! ***BEWARE*** Don’t waste your time. ***BEWARE*** DHgate (Escrow Service) in a “Dispute” will do everything in it’s power to protect the Seller. ***BEWARE*** You will loose money and end up with junk. ***BEWARE*** DHgate allows the Sellers MIS-describe the items and publish misinformation. ***BEWARE*** The Sellers (in the Dispute-Process) are allowed to call you names instead of dealing with the dispute. ***BEWARE*** The Sellers are so protected by DHgate that they have no fear of selling you junk! ***BEWARE*** I figure that for every $400 you spend on the site you will loose an extra $100 – or 125%. ***BEWARE*** The DHgate site promises that they will keep in close contact with you during the Dispute-Process, yet DHgate didn’t contact me for 15-days after I initiated a Dispute. ***BEWARE***
February 9th, 2010 at 10:44 am
[...] which sellers on the website can offer coupons to their customers easily and conveniently, and DHgate calls this kind of coupons Seller Coupons, as compared to the DHcoupons offered by the [...]
February 19th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
Beware of DHGATE platform is a scam, are not responsible for anything and is a hoax. I recommend you never buy there or will have problems and lose their money.
February 28th, 2010 at 2:20 am
[...] DHgate.com is a professional wholesale marketplace of a wide range of wholesale items including wholesale fashion accessories. If you want to pick some fashion accessories to dress up yourself with your stylish clothes, DHgate.com will be competent as your shopping guide to wholesale fashion accessories. On DHgate.com, the wholesale fashion accessories are divided into several sub-categories: shoes, bags and other fashion accessories. Among the sub-categories, men and women’s fashion accessories are listed separately with each other, so that customers can easily locate the fashion accessories they want. [...]
March 4th, 2010 at 8:14 am
[...] this week, DHgate released a collection of classic and new styled wedding dresses, in which you can find the most [...]
March 5th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
[...] DHgate Weekend Deals have become a regular promotional campaign for months and at each weekend, DHgate can always wow its buyers with special surprises–deep discounts are what attracts the smart [...]
March 10th, 2010 at 10:31 am
[...] dress that wowed the 82nd red carpet, you can have it custom made by Lightinthebox or sellers on DHgate, for low as tens of dollars. To make the best buying decision, I would suggest you take a good look [...]
March 12th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
[...] more savings on your purchases from DHgate.com? Then don’t miss the Weekend Deals offered by DHgate–the lower prices are for this weekend [...]
March 16th, 2010 at 9:14 am
[...] savings for their next orders with sellers who offer the coupons. If you are a regular buyer of DHgate, these coupons are definitely a good opportunity to reduce your cost. So why not go now and have a [...]
March 24th, 2010 at 10:38 am
[...] and most lingerie sellers require no minimum order quantity. If you are still not sure whether DHgate is a legitimate company or not, or whether the seller of your interested item is reliable or not, [...]
March 27th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
[...] Since its commencement, DHgate has received all together three rounds of investment by some world renowned investors. A few days [...]
March 29th, 2010 at 3:41 am
[...] the internet, some people are asking about the jerseys available on DHgate—that’s why I decide to write a guide to shopping DHgate jerseys. It is always tough to buy [...]
April 3rd, 2010 at 10:56 am
[...] a regular visitor of some China wholesale websites like DHgate and Lightinthebox, I find some really fashionable yet affordable styles of handbags. From the [...]
April 4th, 2010 at 10:54 am
[...] the world’s first transaction-based wholesale website, DHgate has been winning more and more applause from all over the world since its inception in 2004. It is [...]
April 11th, 2010 at 12:01 am
[...] the world, which are the best? For my personal opinion, I would recommend two wholesale companies: DHgate and [...]
April 11th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
[...] DVs, spy diving watches and more. All these great security and surveillance products are offered by DHgate suppliers at lower prices than those available before and after the promotion. Some are priced at a [...]
April 14th, 2010 at 9:49 am
[...] the most valuable information about the most popular China wholesale companies like Alibaba, DHgate and Lightinthebox, and share our own opinions on these wholesale [...]
April 16th, 2010 at 9:44 am
[...] some fashion magazines and China wholesale websites such as DHgate, I learn that the up-to-the-minute styles of high heels have some new trends this [...]
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 am
[...] I did some homework on researching the major China wholesale websites such as Lightinthebox and DHgate, and I am happy to share the following [...]
April 19th, 2010 at 5:38 am
[...] you big money. Especially if you buy from China, you will see how eco-friendly this product is! On DHgate, the China-based wholesale website, a skin sticker for iPhone 3G is priced at only 1.25 U.S. [...]
April 19th, 2010 at 6:13 am
[...] If patient enough, you will be able to get the best prom dress deals with the least money. Besides, DHgate targets small and medium-sized buyers and minimum order quantity is as low is 1 item. Last but not [...]
April 25th, 2010 at 8:38 am
[...] if your purchase order reaches or exceeds10 pieces, you will get the low wholesale price from DHgate suppliers. If you are interested in souring hats for your resell business, take a good look at the [...]
April 30th, 2010 at 5:59 am
[...] selection of best gifts for the summer season on DHgate mainly includes dresses, baby gifts, hot accessories for health and beauty, cell phones and [...]
May 1st, 2010 at 4:28 am
[...] from DHgate.com, the China wholesale marketplace. As an international online transaction platform, DHgate has been attracting global small and medium sized buyers who are interested in purchasing directly [...]
May 4th, 2010 at 10:53 am
[...] chat service are the best and the most easy-to-use among all China wholesale marketplaces including DHgate, Lightinthebox, Milanoo, etc. Just click the button and you will be able to start the chat [...]
May 28th, 2010 at 6:37 am
[...] consumers as more and more small and medium-sized marketplaces accept 1-piece order, for example, DHgate, Tradetang and Belta. On the other hand, B2C stores may also serve merchants who source items from [...]
June 28th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
[...] For example, DHgate provides Escrow service to protect their buyers. Under the Escrow system, DHgate receives the payment from the buyer, and hold the payment. Only after the buyer receives the order [...]
December 7th, 2010 at 4:54 am
Dhgate is really a good wholesaler from china
March 26th, 2011 at 12:04 am
AVOID Dhgate at any cost. Buyer protection is crap. Vendors steal from you and they do nothing!
April 24th, 2011 at 1:44 pm
bought a couple dresses from them and never received them, very bad customer support, If your buying online, you have to be careful to scam sites like these, and look for site’s like vastsale.com that uses paypal, so you can complain and get your money back
October 6th, 2011 at 4:26 am
[...] you want to shop the wedding dresses that set the trends for 2010, you can visit DHgate.com or Lightinthebox.com and check out their wedding dress collection. Both are China-based wholesale [...]