Buying Into The "Gray Zone" Confused Eyes

In the so-called international market, the price of luxury goods is "up to the sword", and the Customs has cut taxes.

In such a narrow "gray channel", is there still no way to buy overseas?

In a gray area.

"Candy bear" is an American purchasing agent. It just graduated from university this year.

When she was a student, she worked part-time as a purchasing agent on Taobao. After graduation, she opened a small shop in the United States and monopolized the brand clothing of the United States.

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In April 2008, candy bear opened a purchasing shop on Taobao.

"At that time, the idea was very simple. I didn't go back home for a long time. At the end of April that year, I wanted to go back home. I want to see if there is any business. Then I went around the domestic forum."

In the forum, candy bears found two big beauties in ONLYLADY, that is, now very red "choke little pepper" sisters.

She saw that they mentioned the rabbit bag that LeSportSac and StellaMcCartney were working on.

The candy bear thought the rabbit bag was cute. The first idea was to make one for himself. After Google, she found that this bag sold for 140 dollars in the United States, when the chilies bought the price from Hongkong for 2100 yuan.

The candy bear thought he made a lot of money and put the rabbit bag in the shop.

"At the beginning, there was no credit. Nobody talked to me."

Originally wanted to earn a fortune by "rabbit bag", the first guest that the candy bear greeted was the sports shoes for purchasing sports shoes, NIKE and Adidas.

"He's called the broadcasting station.

Because I wrote clearly on the page, I want to go back to China, I can help you bring things to save for international freight, so he came to me and asked me to buy sports shoes for him on the US website.

He bought six or seven pairs of sneakers that were NIKE and Adidas.

In the first business, the candy bear hardly made any money.

"I said 10%," he said. "When I first did business, I couldn't get that high. Otherwise, he would go to someone else to buy it and say that someone else's price was lower than mine. Let me give him 8%. I think it's 8%.

Besides my hard work, I don't expect to make any money. "

Candy bear said.

After that, the candy bear chatted with the group of friends in the group of choking chokes, hoping to sell rabbit bags.

"Everyone likes the rabbit bag of chili peppers, that is, group buying. There are several other American purchasing agents in the group.

An American purchasing agency said that the US website had activities, the rabbit bag had 30%off, and then began to reduce the price.

If I remember correctly, the price was then reduced to more than 700 yuan. "

It's more important to earn money than to make money when you think of your new shop. Candy bear has ordered more than 20 Bunny bags.

"Sleeping all night is having nightmares, thinking about picking up a rabbit bag."

Candy bear said.

Second days early in the morning, she got up and called the official website. The website said that it was sold out.

"I think it's not finished. How can I tell my guests?" fortunately, the staff of the website asked her to call every physical store, and there might be some more.

As a result, the candy bears call each other from house to house, so it's hard to get together.

"Sometimes I call on the phone," the clerk said. "A minute ago, someone called and fixed the goods in our store." I wish I could have three heads and six arms, and make multiple calls at the same time.

Remembering the scene of snapping up rabbit bags, the candy bear was a bit excited.

After that, the candy bear carried the rabbit bag, Guess's shirt skirt, and the "radio station" sneakers back home.

Minnetonka is angry, buying to be low-key!

In 2009, another Internet celebrity "big C" began to show her Minnetonka on the Internet.

"My colleagues called the Minnetonka headquarters and said that someone had sold their shoes to China, because at that time I had a very low price, which was taken directly from the Minnetonka manufacturer."

Candy bear said.

Because she worked with a friend who opened a shop in the United States, this friend had the agency of Minnetonka, and the shoes sold by the candy bear were booked by this friend, and she gave a certain commission to her friend.

"This price is much cheaper than usual in other websites, and it can also give you a group purchase price."

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Because some people reported, Minnetonka manufacturers began to investigate the recent specialized small order agents.

Because the candy bear group bought a lot, soon, the manufacturer found her agent friend, and then found the candy bear.

"At that time, the head of Minnetonka's production department also telephones with me.

He said, "life used to be beautiful. We produce some shoes and sell some shoes.

Now we have a lot of orders every day, and we can't turn around 24 hours. "

Candy bear said, Minnetonka is actually a very small manufacturer.

The production manager also told the candy bear that they were told by Japanese agents one week ago.

Because a Japanese student studying in the United States has made many shoes on the Minnetonka website, which are sold in Japan, which is much cheaper than the Japanese mainland and made a lot of money.

Minnetonka's Japanese agent was very upset when he heard about it. He called the American manufacturer and said, "I am an agent. How can you let other people sell Minnetonka shoes in Japan?" so the Japanese agent will sue the manufacturer, and he will also inform the overseas student who buys the goods.

The Japanese girl in the United States did not earn enough money.

Minnetonka manufacturers are getting bigger.

Originally a small factory, now it has so many things to do, but also to find a lawyer to fight a lawsuit, so a stick smashed all Asians, not to sell you! At that time, many Minnetonka agents website wrote, do not send Japan, do not send Asia.

"In the United States, there is no resalecertificate (resale certificate), you can't buy it back."

Candy bear said.

The agent has resalecertificate, and the agent power is approved by the manufacturer.

"Speaking, purchasing is a gray area. It is not legal in the United States. Most of the purchasing agents do not pay taxes. 95%, I am talking about income tax, not consumption tax.

If the money is checked out by the US IRS (Internal Revenue Service), everyone will be unlucky. That's why people often say that they are buying on behalf of others, so they need to keep a low profile, "the candy bear told reporters.

However, not all purchases are low-key.

"Now there are a lot of new purchasing agents, doing things relatively large, people are more high-profile, like to tell everyone that they are buying scalping."

In the juicycouture, the candy bear listens to the shop assistant, saying that some buyers and salesmen explain that they are going to sell their products to China and leave their contact information so that they can notify them when they have activities.

A large number of goods shipped to the mainland, the customs have become hairy!

When candy Xiong Gangjin Taobao network, the United States purchase is not yet mature, the seller's profit margin is very high.

Now the competition for purchasing is becoming more and more intense. Many so-called American purchasing are changed to spot.

"Just go shopping and see a product with a price cut, buy it first and then sell it on Taobao."

Because more and more people are buying and purchasing, the competition is becoming more and more fierce. The purchasing cost has dropped from 10% to 7%, or even 5%.

Some simply do not accept purchasing costs.

"Do not buy on behalf of the purchase fee can be done a day, a week, a month, but can you always open a welfare store? Purchasing things are clearly marked on the website price, how much money you sell, how many percentage points to buy on behalf of the purchase is clear.

But it is different for us to do spot goods. The discount rates in different states of the US mall are different. The discounted value of 100 dollars is 20 dollars, and I am going to sell it on Taobao for 60 dollars.

Buyers feel that the price is cheaper than the regular website purchase, and sellers feel that they earn much more than the regular websites.

So more and more sellers are doing this.

As a result, more and more sellers of spot products are starting to lower prices.

"This is a very interesting phenomenon. Chinese people like to have the lowest price in business, but only at a lower price."

Candy bear said.

So the current situation is that a lot of formal purchase and spot purchase profits are depressed very low, low profits, to make money, we can only take the amount.

"So everyone sent a large number of goods to the mainland, and customs officers over there were a lot of boxes. So, we got to the customs now and said," check! "So everyone checked the box and was asked to pay customs duties.

This is candy bear's understanding of the background of the new General Administration of customs.

"As far as I know, many small sellers, because they have just started business, rely on low prices to attract customers. Now they send three boxes to return home, two are checked, and they have to pay hundreds of dollars or even thousands of dollars in customs duties. What else do they earn? They may not have earned so much money in a box, they are losing money."

As a result, there are fewer and fewer sellers.