[asterisk-biz] Why so many international customers ask for free samples

[Andy Spring]

Dear Everyone my friends,

Thanks for you so many people talk about my questions, yes, I do sell
hardware like Voip phone, ATA, wifi sip phone, GSM/WIFI phone and so on.
About the sample, we take the policy like that charge sample first, if the
customer like it and when you place bulk order next time, then the sample
fee charged before will be returned to them, if the customer do not like it,
when they return the sample, we will also return their money of sample.
Do you think this way is good for our business.

Also, I have still a further question, many people in US request our
business with credit card, But I do not know whether we can go by credit
card with US customer or some other foreign customer outside China, I mean
not the problem of us and our cusotmer, but the bank of China and the bank
of US or any other country's. Yes, for sure, it can go in local China when
both parties are in China, but if one is in China and one is in US, can we
still go on the business with the credit card, as far as I know, we can only
do business with US or any other outside China customers by the payment
method of bank transfer or LC or DP, DA. do you have any other good payment
mothed?
or could you kindly advise whether we can go by credit card, anyone have
this exeperience?  thank you very much my friends everyone.

Best regards
andy

2008/10/28 Steve Totaro <stotaro at totarotechnologies.com>

>  On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel
> <trixter at 0xdecafbad.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 13:49 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
> >> To an extent yes, but he is not selling minutes, he is selling
> >> hardware (as far as I know).
> >>
> >> Using the terms "VoIP isn't a single sale" is misleading since he is
> >> selling phones or whatever, which very well may be a single batch
> >> sale.
> >>
> >
> > oh its hardware?  that is even more likely to attract people who ask for
> > samples.  Its a hardware engineering thing, call up mouser, digikey, or
> > any of the other top 10 global component resellers, call up
> > manufacturers such as Ti, they all have a samples department.
> > Fortunately for me there was a Mouser right by the college I went to and
> > their samples department basically gave me more than enough stuff back
> > then to make some neat toys :)  So yes it does get abused, but generally
> > its seen as a cost of doing business in such firms.
> >
> > However end user retail goods generally do not get samples the same way,
> > for some its like Sun where you try before you buy, basically you clear
> > credit and all that, and if you like the system after your term (90 days
> > or it used to be) you had to send it back or pay for it.  Sure they run
> > the risk of the type of crowd getting the big screen just before hte big
> > game and returning it just after, but that is why sun runs credit and
> > sees how many systems you can demo this way.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com     Bret McDanel
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> >
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> I am not too sure how that would work across boarders and in
> particular, the US and China if someone didn't keep up their end of
> the bargain.
>
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