Whohad better not Yiwu?From our 10 year sourcing experience in Yiwu market, we found that Yiwu is not a good place for everyone. Not every visitor left Yiwu with a happy smile.

1. Shoppers Who Want To Shop Cheap Items

Yiwu claims itself as “paradise of shoppers”, but that’s not a proper translation. The proper translation should be “paradise of mid-sized buyers”. The actual “paradise of shoppers” should be HK or Shanghai, Yiwu is definitely not on that list.

Even for natives like us, it’s still hard for us to find a right place to go shopping in the weekend. We shop more online! Most shops here only do wholesale, NOT retail. The only possible place for shopping is night market!

2. Buyers Who Can’t Accept Over-one-carton MOQ

If a small shop is what you only have or that’s the only distribution channel you can sell the products you import from China, in my opinion, you don’t need to come to Yiwu. You can simply purchase from your local wholesale market.

Theoretically, you can buy one carton from this shop and one carton from that shop here, but the overall cost plus shipping expenses will be high.

Shipping by big containers is what the big importers from your country are currently doing now. They can save lots of shipping cost. If you can’t fill up even a small container, you will probably can’t compete with them for price.

Besides, the traveling cost may eat up all the profit. (But if you’re also for a sightseeing trip all over China, then it’s another thing.)

If LUCKY enough, you find something NEW, I mean they never exist in your local market before, AND there is a good profit, AND you have the ability to sell lots of them. Then you’re a lucky dog. This kind of things don’t happen all the time though 😉

3. Buyers Who Only Look For Stocks

Except a few markets like jewelry accessories, fabrics… the rest markets here don’t have so much stock ready for you to pick up and carry away.

The market here is more like a big showroom. Most of the products you see are just samples. You need to wait for 3-20 days, even 30 days, for your products to be delivered. >> See Stock Shoes

4. Buyers Who Only Want To Deal With Factories

As far as I know, now only about 70% ~ 80% of the shops in Yiwu market are the office of their own factory, the rest are all representatives and distributors. If you’re only open to trading with factories, you won’t be very happy.

To summarize, the buyer who has the buying power to ship in by containers, no matter how many products are mixed in that container, will like Yiwu better. AND those who know their market very well and are always open to new opportunities will also like Yiwu.