In recent years, overseas buyer fraud cases have occurred frequently, and many enterprises exporting plywood and wood-based panels have suffered from hidden losses. The fraud in the foreign trade of plywood, wood-based panel and board is impossible to prevent. If you are not careful, your trust will become a chip for the swindler to cheat you. Please pay special attention to the enterprises exporting plywood and wood-based panels!
Recently, a foreign trader of plywood and wood-based panels told himself that he shared a foreign trade fraud of plywood and wood-based panels ↓↓↓
The customer is from Mexico. At the beginning, the orders placed in Linyi factory are based on the model of “one cabinet one cabinet”. It has been more than a year since the cooperation. Every time, the letter of credit was used, and the payment was also very straightforward, which won the trust of Linyi salesmen.
In April of this year, 40 large cabinets were sold, and 10 cabinets were ordered at one time, and two were sold to Mexican plywood importers every month. Because of more than one year’s cooperation, the customer said that he wanted to pay 10% of the advance payment and the rest of the final payment after customs clearance. The boss also agreed.
The Linyi salesman began to urge the final payment on the day the customer returned after customs clearance. The Mexican plywood importer asked the Linyi salesman to be patient every day and said that he would pay later. After waiting for a few days, there was still no receipt. The Linyi salesman reported to the leader. The leader began to call and urge. The Mexican plywood importer began to show that he was also asking for money from the Mexican plywood importer’s retailer. The money was paid immediately when it arrived. Up to now, Linyi has not received the final payment, and has lost the payment for two containers worth 30000 US dollars.
Please be alert to those customers who use small orders to win your trust, and then suddenly place a large order but change the payment method, or the Linyi salesperson is an example. Although the Linyi boss did not deduct the money from the Linyi salesperson, the Linyi salesperson felt very uncomfortable. There is no way for foreign customers to cheat us under the epidemic.
The above is a typical Mexican scam. In fact, a closer look at Linyi shows that although there are many kinds of scams, there are still traces to follow.
According to the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, after many foreign swindlers established trade relations with the plywood and wood-based panel enterprises in Linyi, the first few transactions were in good credit, and the payment for the goods was paid promptly (for example, the first case).
Until the enterprises exporting plywood and wood-based panels in Linyi business member countries relaxed their vigilance, they resorted to deception, which made people unprepared and difficult to deal with. There are also foreign swindlers who pose as big buyers and send special personnel to China to supervise the delivery of goods. But once the goods arrive at the port of the importing country, the swindlers’ faces will be exposed immediately.
Some professionals summarized some routines of foreign swindlers:
- Most international fraudsters first obtain the contact information of plywood and wood-based panel foreign trade plywood and wood-based panel enterprises from the Internet or the exhibition, and then establish trade contacts through fax or e-mail. After a period of contact, they swindle trust and sign export contracts with them. The payment method is usually the D/P method with high risk (i.e. payment documents).
- After the goods arrive at the port of the importing country, the fraudster refuses to pay the goods on time for various reasons. Some pretexts are that the capital turnover cannot be opened, forcing the plywood and wood-based panel foreign trade plywood and wood-based panel enterprises to first agree with the Mexican plywood importers to pick up the goods. Once the goods are picked up, they disappear immediately.
- Force the plywood and wood-based panel foreign trade plywood and wood-based panel enterprises to reduce the price on the grounds of product quality problems. In many cases, the plywood and wood-based panel foreign trade enterprises are forced to reduce the price because of the complex return procedures and the high cost of cargo pressure at the port.
- What’s more, they neither pay nor return the receipt of delivery to the Linyi salesman plywood and wood-based panel enterprise, deliberately delaying the time until the goods are sold at the port for more than the specified time (generally 3 to 4 months), and then participate in the bidding when they are auctioned by the local customs. In this way, Mexican plywood importers can buy the goods at a low price.
However, the above points all have a common premise, that is, we must first obtain the trust of plywood and wood-based panel traders. In order to achieve this goal, foreign swindler companies have tried their best.
It is also reminded that under the epidemic situation, let’s put aside those who don’t earn money first. It is the most important to not lose money first. The swindlers have increasingly sophisticated means of fraud. Even the “veteran” of plywood and wood-based panel foreign trade can not escape the situation of being cheated. Take more care and take less chances to avoid risks. Forwarding the news, beware of foreign trade fraud of plywood and wood-based panels~
