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原帖由 university 於 2006-9-2 03:59 PM 發表
Refer to the samples arrangement, I also had this experience when I worked in a manufacturing business after graduated. Most of the those customers are from S. America, Africa etc. Now, I will ch ...
This is so general that European client will have a FedEx, UPS and DHL. This is a general practice to send sample at freight collect basic via their account.
Before and after I sent out the sample I also checked this client’s UPS account with the UPS hotline. They always say that this account is existed but cannot check his credit as their computer is not showing it, and if he refuses to pay the freight, the shipper has to pay it instead.
And when you ask clients pay for the freight charge in advance, firstly clients will say they prefer to send out the samples via their international courier account because they have some discounts or agreement with the courier, and they don’t like to T/T you a small amount of money because they have to pay for the bank charge. In addition, when you got the samples from the factory you just have to send it out as soon as possible, but sometimes it is just hard to tell how much the freight charge it until the day you have the sample in hand. When you have the sample in hand and work out the freight charge, then you send an email request for the freight charge payment, the fastest it takes you 3 days to receive the money. In fact, most of the time you have late receipt of the sample form the factory than what you promise your client. And if late delivery for the sample is meaningless when you miss the deadline such as their presentation…..too many reason to make it difficult to play it safe….
