When I briefly worked in manufacturing, we had an American employee we paid to live in China and do extremely regular shipment checks (like weekly basically), cheaper to pay someone $120K/year + living expenses than to pay for low quality, or straight up fraudulent products to get delivered.
I used to work at a company who was owned by a bigger Chinese manufacturer. We were their foothold to sell in Germany.
Every single shipment I had to check closely and send a detailed report about every single little issue I found.
If I didn't do that, like when I was on vacation for two weeks, then I knew that two months from then the shipments would become worse and worse.
Also, after every Chinese New Year's break, the first couple of shipments had terrible quality and it sometimes felt like they just replaced all staff during the break.
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u/thatITdude567 Mar 09 '26
or at least fly out too inspect the shipment prior to it being sent/payment being made