The truth behind China’s Underground Wholesale Markets.

article vraiment fascinant sur les #marchés_de_gros (#électronique mais pas seulement) en #Chine, la #contrefaçon, la #douane

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These shops have a lot of great stories as to how they came across these goods and you would be forgiven for believing one of them to be honest, they can tell a good story.

When this container of incredibly priced shoes arrives at customs and you are getting them inspected before they clear through and can be delivered to your warehouse what will happen when they ask to see your documentation allowing you to import a trademarked brand? You guessed it. Best case scenario you lose the goods, worst case you lose a lot more. In fact so many shipping companies are sick of this headache they may ask to see your trademark rights documentation before shipping the goods.

Les produits refurbished :

These are “genuine products” which did actually start life as a factory original item. They are then stripped down with the internals removed and replaced with Chinese copy parts. Hard drives, screen, processors, camera lenses, and casings are all stripped off and sold for a profit then replaced with inferior, but working replacements.

avec un effet contre-intuitif sur la destination géographique de ces produits :

These places are becoming more and more popular now as countless foreign markets emerge where branded originals are extremely expensive. Not for instance in the UK and USA where branded originals are actually quite good value. I am talking about African, Middle East and South American countries where high demand and low supply for genuine branded goods means that these lower quality refurbished models have a good market.

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I have met a lot of interesting people from African countries who are opening hotels or bars there and come here to buy the products that just aren’t available back home.

Like this guy below who has travelled here to buy two hundred 32” lcd tv’s his boss needs for the hotel bed rooms in his latest development because there is no place where they come from to buy such things. Many times I have shown them the price in the UK on my ipad and they have been close to jumping on a plane to make a call into an Argos store.

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Déjà en 2009 j’avais vu au Ghana des hotels intégralement équipés en matériel Chinois - de la plomberie au papier toilettes en passant par les télévisions... Probablement sans compter les matériaux de constructions - comme le mentionne cet article: ►http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1521076/afro-chinese-marriages-boom-guangzhou-will-it-be-til-death - “Today, he owns a five million yuan (HK$6.3 million) flat in Zhujiang New Town, Guangzhou’s smartest district, drives a car worth US$64,000 and speaks Putonghua. Issa ships 50 to 200 containers home per year - full of construction materials, because ’they’re the most lucrative’ - and makes an average US$2,000 on each container”.

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Oui... Bizarre cette vague Chinoise chez moi ces derniers temps... Ca doit probablement avoir quelque chose à voir avec l’intérêt croissant de ma femme à trouver des fournisseurs de mèches Africaines directement là-bas... Je suis contaminé par la curiosité !