Based in Guangzhou · Licensed Chinese trading company

Your factory sells the same product 20–40% cheaper.

On a website you can't buy from.

1688 is where Chinese businesses buy — same factories, same goods, domestic prices. You're paying for English and export paperwork, not for a better product.

I'm a marketplace seller based in Guangzhou. I have a licensed Chinese trading company, a corporate RMB account and customs registration. I buy where you can't, and ship it to you.

Send me your supplier link See what it costs

Free, no account, answer within 24 hours.

What the gap is worth on your order

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30%
1%40%
Your order today$6,000
Same item at that gap$0.72 – $0.96
You keep$1,200 – $2,400
Above $10 a unit I cap this slider at 20%, because the gap really is smaller there. Certification, tooling and packaging cost the same wherever you buy, and higher-value goods more often come from factories that already export themselves — so there may be no middleman to remove. Send the link and I'll give you the real number instead of a guess.

Your assumption, not my promise — but the slider only goes as far as I think is honest: up to 40% under $10 a unit, up to 20% above it. The actual figure for your supplier comes from the free check below, with both listings side by side.

One shipment I exported under my own company

36,000Units
2Factories
360Cartons
5.5 tGross weight
The catch

Five walls between you and the Chinese domestic market

None of them are about price. All of them are about access.

01

Language

The whole platform is in Chinese, and so is every supplier chat. Machine translation gets you about 70% — and fails exactly where it matters, in negotiation.

02

Payment

Alipay and Chinese bank transfers only. Your card doesn't work. Your wire doesn't arrive.

03

Shipping

Suppliers ship domestically. Their job ends at a Chinese courier. Export documents, consolidation and freight are yours to solve.

04

No protection

Trade Assurance doesn't exist on 1688. If something goes wrong, the dispute happens in Chinese.

05

Minimum order

MOQs are written for Chinese resellers, not for a foreign buyer testing a product for the first time.

I'm on the other side of all five.

Customs-registered exporter of record, RMB corporate account, and a car that reaches Dongguan in an hour.

Send me any supplier link. I'll pull their record from the Chinese government registry and tell you whether they manufacture or resell — free, within 24 hours.

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Services

What I do, and what it costs

Start at the top. Most people do.

Alibaba → 1688 price check

I find your supplier's domestic listing and show you the real price.

Free24 hours

Supplier Report

Who your supplier actually is: Chinese government registry record, company ID, registered capital, licensed business scope, whether they manufacture or resell, 1688 presence and price, red flags.

$892 days

Factory Sourcing

3–5 verified factories for your product, with quotes, MOQs and samples arranged.

$3905–7 days

Factory Visit

I drive to the plant. Photos, video walkthrough, and a live call from the floor before you pay a deposit.

$2903–5 days

Pre-shipment Inspection

Checked and documented before you release the balance.

$2803 days

First Order, Done For You

Sourcing, samples, negotiation, quality control, payment and export — the whole first run.

$1,2003–5 weeks

Ongoing purchasing

I buy under my company, pay your supplier in RMB, and export under my own customs registration.

5%3% above $50,000

Retainer

Continuous sourcing and supplier management for a growing catalogue.

$900per month

No hidden margin. The factory invoice goes to you exactly as issued. My only income is the fee we agree in writing before the work starts.
All prices above are for my service only and exclude the goods, freight, duties and taxes. Every quote is confirmed in writing before anything starts.

Receipts

Documents, not adjectives

Everything on this page can be checked. Here is where you start.

Business licence of Guangzhou Mai Su La Import & Export Co., Ltd

My business licence

Unified Social Credit Code 91440106MAK4D1KN6Y. Type it into the Chinese national enterprise registry and you will see the same company, the same date, the same registered capital. That is the exact check I run on your suppliers.

First page of a Mai Su La supplier report

What a Supplier Report looks like

Registry record, licensed business scope, the words that decide whether they manufacture or resell, the same product on 1688 with the price, and a flag list. Two days, $89. The company in this sample is fictional, used to show the format — yours has your real supplier in it.

¥422,508paid to Chinese factories through my company since May 2026
4factories paid directly, in RMB, inside China
36,000units cleared customs under my own declaration
2 of 5target prices I told a client were not reachable — in writing
Who I am

Why me

A licensed Chinese company

Guangzhou Mai Su La Import & Export Co., Ltd. Verifiable in the Chinese national enterprise registry — the same registry I check your suppliers in. You'll see it was registered in December 2025 with RMB 10,000 of capital. Both are normal for a trading company: I own no plant and no machines. If I claimed to run a factory on that capital, you should walk away.

Customs registration

China dropped the separate export-operator registration at the end of 2022 — what matters now is being registered with customs. I am, and I'm the exporter of record on my own declarations. That is what lets you buy from a factory that has no practical way to export on its own — which is a large part of 1688.

A corporate account at ICBC

I pay your supplier in RMB, domestically, the way Chinese buyers do. No wire that never arrives.

I'm here

Guangzhou. I can be standing in a factory in Dongguan tomorrow morning, with a phone camera on.

I'm a seller too

I run my own brand on marketplaces and import for it myself. I know what a broken MOQ, a late shipment or a bad first batch actually costs — most agents have never sold anything.

Registered entity
Guangzhou Mai Su La
Import & Export Co., Ltd
Unified Social Credit Code
91440106MAK4D1KN6Y
Registered
19 December 2025
Location
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Photos from the factory floor are coming.
I would rather show you real ones than stock images.

How I work

In writing. It is clearer, it is faster across time zones, and every spec, price and promise from the factory stays on record where you can re-read it. Calls on request, with an interpreter. I am not Chinese — I am a foreigner who moved here and learned this system from the inside, which is exactly why I read it the way you would.

Start with the free one

Send a link to your product on Alibaba, or your supplier's name. Within 24 hours I'll tell you:

  • whether they're a factory or a trading company
  • what they're actually registered to do
  • whether the same product sits on 1688, and at what price

No account. No call. No commitment.

Answer within 24 hours, from a human in Guangzhou — me, Maxim.

What you send is used to answer you and nothing else. No list, no sharing, no automated follow-ups.