Middlemen Scam
4 dirty tricks of Middlemen scam
When you search online, for many styles, we are one of the very few suppliers you can find, or probably the only one all over the world, with decent prices, with various options, with a lot of real pictures from production. All of those speak for one solid truth: we are the real manufacturer, and one of the most competitive suppliers.
So imagine, if you are a middle seller with no price to compete with us, no quality, no production line, what can you do?
They use dirty tricks.
Trick No.1: Fabricate good reviews about themselves.
You would see the typical fake good reviews in a notorious review website just as below:
How can you tell this good review is a fake one?
If you have a common business sense, you will find there are many fishy points in this "good review":
First, for many individuals, they don't bother to give good reviews after buying, for business buyers, they 100% would not take any efforts to make good reviews and promote others.
We have dealt with thousands of business buyers, and none of them would be willing to spend time on that kind of review things. The only bonus from business buyers when they are satisfied with your products and service are: they will keep buying from you and recommending to other business connections.
For example,we have dealt with this business customer Atlanta West Dentistry, who was actually recommended by another business customer, but we had no way to know about this recommendation at all after long time of the transaction was finished.
Second, it said this "company buyer" bought a large quantity of furniture, and "delivered yesterday", is that possible within just 24 hours, this "large quantity" of furniture were all unopened, installed and checked and so this "company buyer" was convinced to give this good review? As far as we know, when the business buyers make a mass purchase from us, even unpacking those furniture will take them at least one week, no mention they have to install and adjust which could make them come back to us one months later if there is something wrong.
Third, if you check the review date of 2016.04.08, it was Friday, and the review time is almost 15:00 PM. Everybody knows in USA, when it comes to 15:00PM Friday, you either rush to finish the jobs so you can enjoy the weekend, or already prepare to leave the workplace as it would be a traffic jam soon. But at this important moment, this "company buyer" was still so contributing to spend time for good reviews to promote others?
Just use a little bit brain, your intuition will tell you, this kind of "good reviews" for those middlemen are totally something fishy. No need to say about those good reviews on their own website, they can exaggerate anything they want.
Trick No.2: Make fake bad reviews to defame manufacturer sellers such as us
Since they can post fake good reviews about themselves, why cannot they post fake bad reviews to mislead people to buy their overpriced products?
We once dealt with a middleman (NOT our authroized resellers) who spent $1030 to buy the barcelona chairs from us, and sold to the buyer at $1770, they made the margin of more than USD700 without taking any efforts.
Trick No.3: The middlemen scam buyers without shipping orders, disappear suddenly over night.
Most middlemen are empty-shell companies, some of them are very notorious. Search "infurn" online, you will know how squalid those scammers are, the scammed buyers even created websites particularly cursing it for taking their money away without shipping anything.
The fly-by-night company of this kind can shut down their websites after the scam, and easily register other websites such as "enfurn" or "Gfurn" or toher kinds of "Xfurn" to resume their shell games.
So dealing with middlemen has the 100 times risks than dealing with the manufacturer, at least we have factories in China, have warehouses and company registered in USA, which are impossible to "fly by night".
Trick No.4: Exaggerate the quality they are selling, using bad materials pretending good one, so they can make huge profit.
Click here to know how a middleman use fake material to pretend quality products.
Click here to know how a middleman use false design to pretend quality products.
Most middlemen would use the best words for their products, but they probably have the no clues for their meaning at all and definitely they will use material as low as possible to enlarge the margin, as long as the product can survive for first 1-2 years, because they can disappear at that time and change another name to start again their tricks.
Click below picture to see how a customer bought a solid wooden product from a middleman via Amazon, but ended up with a damaged MDF product.
What you should do with Middlemen scam
You just need to do 3 things to avoid the middlemen scam.
1. Don't trust them. 99% of their good reviews are fake
2. Don't buy from them, no matter how low their price is
3. Buy from the resellers, distributors or wholesalers verified and vouched by manufacturers, because even the merchants went south, the maker with much powerful capital and capacity can support and protect you even after a long time.