In theory, a deposit of about 30% is required for textile fabric orders, but this is basically at the theoretical stage. It is common for customers not to give a deposit. In the end, orders with a prepaid deposit become special. But did you know that even if you pay a deposit, there may be a scam hidden behind the order.
I received a deposit of 200,000, but lost nearly Millions of raw materials
A few years ago, a gray cloth factory in the textile market received an order for fabrics. The variety was small and the raw materials were special. However, the total number of meters of the order exceeded 3 million meters is still very attractive. The customer said that his order was urgent and he needed the gray fabric factory to actively cooperate and speed up production. Because it was a new customer who took the initiative to ask for a deposit of 200,000 in order to show his sincerity in placing the order.
For large orders with deposits, the gray fabric factory immediately puts into production capacity and rushes production. Even so, customers still come over every now and then to urge the goods, requiring the gray fabric factory to obtain raw materials and complete preliminary preparations. , reduce subsequent production time. So the gray cloth factory spent several million yuan on this type of special raw materials at one time. But the strange thing is that after the raw materials were obtained, the customer could no longer be contacted. Since the deposit was received before the order was placed, and not much gray fabric was produced, it has not yet been shipped. The gray cloth factory does not feel that it is at a disadvantage, but rather feels that it has taken advantage.
However, the large amount of extra raw materials cannot be returned to the raw material factory, and because the products are too special and niche, there is no sales market in the short term and can only be used as inventory. When the gray cloth factory was eager to deal with the raw materials in stock, a wave of orders for such raw materials appeared on the market, but none of the customers for such orders went to the original gray cloth factory. That gray cloth factory had a large amount of raw materials, but could only see Take orders from other stores.
In order to avoid the inventory of raw materials from continuing to occupy a large amount of funds, the gray cloth factory can only significantly reduce the price to sell the inventory of raw materials to the market. The final statistics found that although they received a deposit of 200,000 yuan, they lost nearly 1 million yuan in raw materials.
It is speculated that the people who placed the orders twice before and after were all from the same group, and some gray fabric factories also colluded in order to defeat competitors and obtain low-price raw materials at the same time.
Scams still exist and are common in the fabric market
Compared with those who cheat on raw materials, more people on the market cheat on gray fabrics. The routines are the same, special varieties, large orders, small deposits, and finally the order is canceled without a word. When you are suffering from inventory and are eager to mobilize funds, orders for this kind of fabric will appear on the market again. But if you want to receive orders, it is not a question of meager profits. Most of them require a large loss to make a move.
Compared with scammers who give you a deposit to defraud gray fabrics, it is also unacceptable for some regular customers to leave you with a large inventory without giving a deposit. A simulated silk gray fabric manufacturer in the Wujiang area reported to us that it has nearly a thousand machines in its factory. It previously received an order of several million meters of 75D tangled fabric, but the customer canceled the order when 1 million meters were produced. Since I am an old customer, I didn’t give a deposit, so I couldn’t ask for any compensation.
I thought that messy hemp was a conventional variety and would be easy to sell. Who knew that this year’s textile market would be extremely unfriendly to imitation silk. The inventory of 1 million meters has been piled up since the beginning of the year. What’s even more fatal is that the price of raw materials has been declining, and the millions of meters of mess in stock have been depreciating. The current external selling price is 3.8 yuan/meter. The price at the peak last year was close to 5 yuan/meter, and as long as the customer orders are slightly larger, The prices are still a dime down.
Some ask for money, and some ask for “life”
Most of these scams are ” “Play hard to get”, paralyzing the gray fabric factory with a small deposit, and finally purchasing inventory at a low price to achieve the purpose of defrauding money. But there is a type of people who are not here for money, but to destroy their competitors. The method is similar, except that there will be no orders later for the gray fabric factory to sell at a loss. Not all weaving mills can afford the large amount of inventory and capital occupancy, especially now that the overall textile market is in the off-season.
The solution is to collect a large deposit and ship the goods in time to collect the balance. A gray fabric factory in the Sihong area once received an order for 3 million meters of nylon spinning. It was both a surprise and a panic. It was afraid that the cancellation of the order would cause a large amount of inventory and threaten the operation of the factory, so it insisted on collecting a deposit to implement production. In the end, the customer paid a deposit of 3 million yuan in advance, and the production task was successfully completed.
In the off-season of textile, every textile person is looking forward to orders, but At the same time, we must also be wary of the traps behind profits. Keeping the principal is far more important than profits. </p
