Quanzhou Shoe Companies Suffered Heavy Losses In Order Fraud

"A customer refused to pick up the goods after he placed the order, and asked an agent to buy the inventory products at a low price, which made the producers lose 2 million 600 thousand yuan. Is this not a real hoax?" yesterday, a manager of a slipper enterprise in Jinjiang called to tell him what he had suffered.

At present, the capital of enterprises is generally tight. This phenomenon of "breaking the contract to buy stocks" is not unusual, so many enterprises in Quanzhou have suffered heavy losses.

"This year's orders came very early and huge, and we were all too excited to sleep at that time."

A Jinjiang slipper enterprise manager Lin told reporters that the peak season of slippers in previous years started in November, but in May this year, South American businessmen came to the door to sign 3 styles of slippers orders, totaling 1 million 200 thousand pairs, with a unit price of about 7 yuan per unit, worth 8 million 400 thousand yuan.

1 million 200 thousand pairs, for a company with an annual output of less than 3 million pairs of slippers, is a big order.

However, when the company wants to deliver the order on time, the other party sends a letter to inform the slippers that the quality of the slippers does not meet the requirements, and then vanishes without a trace.

Merchants refused to accept the goods.

"Also wanted to resell the goods to other long term cooperative customers, but when the production was ordered, special signs were added on the vamp, and no merchants were willing to take over the products."

Lin said, when the enterprise was in trouble, another customer who claimed to be a representative office of a South American trading company in China took the sample which was basically identical with the order shoes, and bought the inventory products. The two sides finally traded at the price of 4 yuan per pair.

When Lin manager assisted the merchant to deliver the goods to the port, he found that the address of the merchant was the same as that of the previous order.

"From this point of view, the other side only bought 5 million 800 thousand yuan of products, and bought 8 million 400 thousand yuan of products on the order. After deducting 1 million yuan deposit, I lost 2 million 600 thousand yuan in vain."

Manager Lin was very upset.

Coincidentally, Jinjiang's Anping Development Zone has a similar experience in exporting to Japan and South Korea.

Mr. Chen, the person in charge of the company, said that at the beginning of this year, a Korean businessman who had not worked for many years suddenly made a big order, then refused to accept the goods on the grounds that he failed to deliver the goods on time, and eventually contacted the purchasing backlog product by the agent.

"Making good use of the terms of the contract is the most effective way to ensure the smooth implementation of the contract and ensure the safety of the paction."

Miss Lu, who has long been engaged in shoe products' foreign trade work, said that if new customers suddenly make big orders, they must start production after the deposit of each other.

The deposit for slippers is usually around 20%. If you encounter such unusual orders, you must pay a deposit of 30% or more.

In addition, "if customers want to add a specific logo to the appearance of the product, they must be noticed."

Miss Lu said, "products with specific marks are usually exclusive. Once a contract dispute arises, it is difficult to distribute through other merchants, often only to become a contract.