G'day All
I have been dealing with someone in China who is setting up a business to be a purchasing agent.
The areas he is specialising in is primarily renewable energy (solar, wind, batteries, LED lighting, etc) but he is also keen on electric propulsion so motors, controllers, contactors, etc.
His intent is to get the quality product that China makes be available (instead of the flood of cheap-and-nasty that we're all used to), and to ensure that the products he deals in is of good quality (the sample batch of downlights that he has under-way for us at present have been collected from the manufacturer, and are being tested at an independent workshop now). Expect to pay a little more than "Ebay special" pricing, but get quality that far exceeds the typical Ebay products.
He has just started out, and is looking for clients to act on behalf of. At this time he will happily deal with individuals, as long as their purchase is worth-while (i.e. not in single quantities or particularly low-value orders). For "Ebay quantities" he hopes to have a web site set up in the next 6 to 12 months, but that is not his priority. For now he will act as purchasing agent, either fee-for-service or percent of invoice. Hopefully he can end up with enough repeat-business customers for him to be successful, and we can all see some quality product without paying through the nose for it.
If you are looking for a boat-fitout worth of lighting (or similar) as a one-off I'm sure he'd be happy to work for you as a once-off, although I can see as he gets busy he will be less keen to look after smaller quantities for one-off customers, other than his future web site.
For any Australian orders, as long as you are not in a hurry I can get items imported in conjunction with things we're getting.
If anyone is interested, I'll give you his details, send me an Email jcmassey_at_netspace.net.au (to spare me the spambots seeing my address, so replace the _at_ with @ and all will be well).
Regards
James Massey
[Technik] James
