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

[Andy Spring]

Hello again,

For sample, our goal is not sell sample but to get order by sample, so we
are very careful about the sample, if it is not good or if it is not our
customers' need, we will not "sell" or send to them, since if by this we
will lost customers, why we do this? we are factory, and the goal is to do
order but not to sell sample, if like this, we will open a small shop but
not factory and we will also no need to rent factory house property and no
need to by machine and equipment and no need to employ so many workers, the
cost of all these will even over many many times of the value of the sample.


We are so stupid?

Regards
andy

2008/10/28 Andy Spring <andyspr at gmail.com>

> 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.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
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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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