# Is made-in-china.com legitimate?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-made-in-china-com-legitimate/316304>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 9, 2005, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-made-in-china-com-legitimate/316304 "2005-08-09T17:48:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-made-in-china-com-legitimate/316304/1 "2005-08-09T17:48:55Z")

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I came accross the web site [www.made-in-china.com](http://www.made-in-china.com) and I am interested in buying some products from there. Does any Doper have any experience with this web site?

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**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-made-in-china-com-legitimate/316304/2 "2005-08-09T18:20:47Z")

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What specifically are you trying to buy? In most cases buying made in China goods in the US is a near zero effort proposition. In any case this appears to be an importer site which probably doesn’t sell retail but only to distributors. At best you may be able to find the US distributor for the item you want.

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**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-made-in-china-com-legitimate/316304/3 "2005-08-09T18:34:20Z")

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While visiting that web site, I saw some of the products I sell (I am a gas station/tire shop owner). I was wondering if it would be possible to import these products directly and save some money, but I would like to hear from other people who used this web site first.

I live in Greece BTW.

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**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-made-in-china-com-legitimate/316304/4 "2010-10-28T19:23:59Z")

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The Chinese zombies want our biiiiiiiiiillllls!

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-made-in-china-com-legitimate/316304/5 "2010-10-28T19:29:37Z")

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