It is happy to receive a client's inquiry that interested in my service, most of them come to learn me from my blog articles or my reply to other clients for solution of problems, thand I am rather happy that they like my opinion and their trust to me.
But, when I receive their inquiry with words like "I will be making a purchase soon, and maybe, I could use your help with inspecting factories and inspecting Goods...assuring quality trading service.." they contact me just "maybe", and then another words "Please provide me with a list of suppliers for this product, who is reliable and who is not. Company names, informations, order limits etc." they send these words even we do not talk about any cooperation terms, or my service charge, who knows, after I work out a list of suppliers, they can not accept my service fee. This looks they do not respect other people's work. maybe it takes one or two days's work to collect those suppliers, but will be ignored as we do not confirm any cooperation words.
What I want to say is : you can not treat a sourcing agent like sending inquiry to a supplier who they have a quotation list ready every moment and send to all buyers by the same. a sourcing agent is partner, who can decide success of your business, and give solutions depending on what help you need.
