International Trade Is A Bitch

As our company tries to find better prices for games and consoles we look overseas to check out some of the offers. There are some places, like the UK, that have better prices and availability for some popular products (i.e. Nintendo Wii) - however the exchange rate with the UK to the US is horrid so the prices are HIGHER once you get it over here. Not so cool.

Anyway, the most difficult part of finding good companies (Plenty of sources to hunt down companies) is providing evidence that they aren't scammers, credit card theives, and frauders. It's simply amazing. You can spend days just researching one or two companies. So far, all we've found have been frauds, theives and bad people. How can there really be that many asshats?

For instance, a company has offered us 10 Wii consoles for USD $90 with "five free" if we buy at least twenty. Sorry, but not even a person that stole Nintendo Wii's would sell them that cheap to a pawn shop. They should lead off with "We are about to steal your money, so please insert coins here..."

Other places say they're in the US and end up being in Nigeria or one of thsoe scamming countries. Do they think we're fools? Another US company, when we ask for their tax-id send us their company "certificate" which could have been whipped up in Adobe Illustrator. Only that would probably have had less spelling errors and type-o's on the "professional" document - again from Nigeria.

WTF people? Are there any places that have companies that really sell internationally without being a scamming fool? Damn...

CodeMonkey