We're standing in the factory.
Most agents forward your brief to a trading company and email you the reply. Vumego walks the floor in Guangzhou — holds the sample, negotiates the price, watches the loading.
One crate.
Door to door.
Verified production line, approved sample in hand, crate packed and sealed with us standing next to it.
Booked, loaded and secured — not "with a forwarder somewhere". We know which truck, which driver, which gate.
Export declarations filed before the crane moves. Paperwork done early is margin protected.
Sea for economics, air for speed — quoted at cost, documented, your choice.
Cleared, duties itemised in advance, handed over at your door — with the supplier contact that stays yours.
The four classic import traps. Covered.
Middlemen posing as factories
A polished website and a "factory tour" video prove very little. Plenty of "manufacturers" are trading companies adding a silent margin.
We verify the business licence in person and stand on the actual production line before a deposit moves.
Perfect sample, imperfect bulk
The golden sample is hand-finished by the best person in the building. Mass production is a different building on a different day.
Pre-shipment inspection against the approved sample — before the container is sealed, not after it lands.
Prices that quietly grow
The quote was for the base spec. Then comes tooling, packaging, "material adjustments", and a port fee nobody mentioned.
One number, quoted up front, negotiated face to face. Changes get explained before they get invoiced.
Surprises at the border
Missing certificates, wrong HS codes, unpaid duties — goods that sit in customs cost money every single day.
Compliance and documents prepared before departure, duties itemised in your quote. Boring paperwork, done early.
Priced per order. One number.
No percentage of a supplier invoice you never get to see. You get a quote for the whole job, up front, and the supplier relationship is yours to keep.
Asked often
The factory sets the MOQ, not us — and it varies wildly per product and material. We tell you the honest number upfront, including when a lower MOQ means a worse unit price, so you can decide with real information.
Sourcing and samples: typically 1–3 weeks. Sea freight China→EU: roughly 5–7 weeks door-to-door. Air freight: days, at a price. We map the timeline into your quote so the trade-off is explicit.
Prepared before departure — HS codes, certificates, declarations — and duties are itemised in your quote so the number at the border is the number you already saw.
Yes. No lock-in. The supplier relationship is handed over to you — name, licence, direct contact. If we've done the job well, you'll come back because it's easier, not because you're trapped.
The inspection is designed to catch it before the container is sealed. If something still slips through, we handle the claim with the factory honestly and in person — that's what being there is for.
Send the brief. Get a real answer.
Even if the honest answer is "don't make this product." An honest no is part of the service.
Six stages. One person answering.
The process isn't the secret. Being there is. Here's exactly what happens to your order — and what quietly doesn't.
Brief
You send the product, the target price, the quantity, the deadline. We ask the questions that change the outcome — materials, tolerances, packaging, certification — before anything moves.
- Guessing your own spec sheet
- Quotes for the wrong product
- Weeks of alignment emails
Source
We shortlist factories by walking markets and floors, not by sorting a B2B platform by price. Real capability, real capacity, real lead times.
- Resellers posing as factories
- Listings with fantasy prices
- "Yes we can make that" that means no
Verify
Business licence checked in person. Production line stood on. Sample held, weighed, bent, compared. Only then does a factory make the shortlist.
- Video-call "factory tours"
- Photos of someone else's machines
- Deposits to the wrong company
Negotiate
Price, tooling, packaging, payment terms — agreed across a table, written down, one number. Changes get explained before they get invoiced.
- Surprise tooling invoices
- Chat-app negotiations lost in translation
- Prices that quietly grow
Inspect & ship
Pre-shipment inspection against your approved sample. Export documents filed early. Then sea or air — booked, tracked, documented at cost.
- Defects found in your warehouse
- Goods parked at customs
- Freight invoices you can't read
Delivered
Cleared, delivered, closed out — with the supplier's name, licence and direct contact handed to you. The relationship belongs to the client.
- Agent lock-in
- "Our supplier" secrecy
- Starting from zero next order
Stage one starts with an email.
Tell us what you want to make. We'll answer like we're already there — because we are.
If it's made, we can source it.
Vehicles & car parts
OEM and aftermarket parts, accessories and equipment — sourced from lines that actually make them.
We ask which market it ships to before quoting — an E-mark part for the EU and one for elsewhere are not the same part.
Raw materials
Metals, plastics, granulates and composites — with the mill and material certificates checked, not assumed.
One agreed reference unit, photographed and sealed. Production gets measured against it, not against a memory.
Fabric, clothing & prototypes
Rolls, cut-and-sew, and true sample & prototype development taken all the way to production.
Sea freight punishes weak packaging. We fix carton grade, pallet size and stacking height before the first box is made.
Furniture
Where container economics decide the margin. Foam density and frame substitutions checked before the wrap goes on.
Volume is money on a container. Sometimes shipping it apart and assembling here is simply cheaper.
Packaging
Boxes, inserts and the unboxing itself. Material feel verified in hand — paper weight doesn't survive a video call.
Artwork that fits on screen and not on the die is the classic packaging loss. We check the dieline first.
Promotional & advertising
Merch, gifts, signage, displays and exhibition build — produced to a date that doesn't move.
Pantone or a physical swatch. “Same blue” over email is how two batches end up different.
Electronics & small commodities
From accessories to household goods — with CE/RoHS handled before departure, not discovered at the border.
An adapter is not compliance. We check what the destination actually requires.
Something else entirely
These lanes are where we've walked so far — not a fence. If your product isn't listed, brief us anyway. An honest no is part of the service.
No spec sheet needed to start. If we can see it, we can usually find who makes it.
Not sure which lane? Doesn’t matter.
A marketplace link, a photo of the thing on a shelf, a competitor's product page, or a sketch on paper. Any of those is enough to start.
Which lane it falls in, a realistic price band, the lead time for sea and for air, and the questions we still need answered before quoting properly.
The first read costs nothing. You only pay once you've seen a written quote and said go.
Describe the product in your own words — we'll route it.
European on paper. Guangzhou on foot.
The entire risk of importing lives in the gap between a European desk and the factory floor. We closed it by being there.
Desk sourcing vs. ground sourcing
- Searching B2B platforms, sorted by price
- "Verification" over a video call
- Judging quality from photos
- Negotiating in a chat app, across a language gap
- Inspection outsourced to a stranger with a checklist
- Emails, time zones, and waiting
- Walking the markets in Foshan, Shenzhen, Guangzhou
- Licences checked in person, lines stood on
- Samples held, weighed, bent, compared
- Negotiating face to face, across a table
- Inspecting against your approved sample ourselves
- Already in the building
An honest no is part of the service.
The supplier relationship belongs to the client.
Paperwork done early is margin protected.
Nothing replaces standing there.
No client counters, no invented percentages, no stock testimonials on this page. We'd rather earn them than print them.
Put someone in the building.
One brief. One contact person. One number.
Tell us what to go find.
Three short steps. A real reply within one working day — from the person who'll actually be standing in the factory.
- Within 1 working day — a reply from the person who will actually handle it. No ticket number, no bot.
- Within 3–5 days — a first read: feasible or not, realistic price band, the questions we still need answered.
- When you say go — the six stages start, and you get the spec sheet to sign off first.
- TARGET UNIT PRICE
- QUANTITY + EXPECTED REPEAT
- DEADLINE OR EVENT DATE
- CERTIFICATION NEEDS (CE / ROHS / …)
- DESTINATION (PORT OR DOOR)
- PHOTOS OR LINKS OF THE PRODUCT
Mail [email protected]. A screenshot of a product you found on any webshop or marketplace is a perfectly good starting point — we'll take it from there.