As a sourcing agent and buyer I can tell you what a good quotation is for me: it includes all relevant information! My job is to find a reliable supplier at a reasonable price in the shortest time possible.
It is very possible that I will choose a supplier whose price is a few percent higher but the quotation is complete. That means, it includes: FOB price (!!!) with seaport marked! (I often get FOB quotes without location. Obviously for me in Europe a FOB Shanghai price is higher than a FOB Xiamen price, since shipping rates are different).
Delivery time (so far no Chinese supplier was able to keep the promised delivery time for my projects - 90% delay, 10% early)
保证到货时间(到目前为止,没有一家中国供应商能够准时到货: 90% 的订单延迟,10% 提前)。
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Package unit (carton details)!!! Carton weight, size, volume, content, material. It is very important!!! Usually this point is simply left out by suppliers. But I and most full-time buyers have just simply no time to beg for any details separately!!! If a quotation misses this, I simply delete it. I have no time to ask for these points, but I can only calculate my shipping cost with this info!
I hope suppliers will consider these points in the future. If you include all relevant information, you can really help your partner in his/her decision. And for the supplier, it is a job done once, you needn’t work out each detail separately.
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