Sourcing insights from inside China — not from a desk.

Ben’s field notes on sourcing, quality control, logistics and supply-chain strategy — written for importers who want what actually works.

A buyer and a supplier examining a product sample in a factory, with a middleman standing in the background
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More than half the suppliers you source are just middlemen — face it

Most suppliers you source are middlemen, not direct factories Okay, let’s face the fact that more than half of the suppliers in any sourcing channel are “middle man,” and very few of them will tell you the truth. What makes it worst is that you have no way to find

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