If you’ve read most of our articles, you will see how we stress the importance of supplier relationship in your online store.
Simply put, your supplier will make or break your business. If your supplier delivers cheap quality, ships late, or worse, is a total fraud, your business is in BIG danger.
While there’s no guarantee if you’re safe with a supplier, may the following list be a guideline to spot a potential bad supplier.
1. Negative Feedback
The best signal you can get to check a business performance is customer review. While they’re not the total reflection of the business itself, reviews are more likely to be accurate than expert advice or, of course, how the business present themselves.
So when there’s a negative review on a supplier, you should be watchful and double check by learning more information about them.
Keep in mind though that having a bad review doesn’t make a supplier bad. You have to weigh in the reviews you can get and see if that really means a supplier is bad or it’s just a “normal” review level – always expect good and bad reviews to any business.
2. Cheap product
Never, ever compensate cheap subscription fee for a cheap product. Your product is your business’ front, so ensure you deliver well and deliver with quality. If a supplier can’t produce cheap product, they’re simply not someone who you should be dealing with.
3. Late shipping
If a supplier is reputed with delayed or undelivered product, stay away from them.
There’s no point making business with anyone who can’t fulfill their business obligation.
Among others, they’re in the business of delivering your product, so averagely at least, they must deliver. Simple as that.
4. Unreasonable conditions
