Depend on your agent + unreliable 5% of the time
I used CJ drop shippnig for 2 years. Error rates was low and I have 3 very good agents for 2 years. Since 7 months, it is a nightmare because my last good agent resigned. And my custom instructions are not followed anymore. I am told ok…and then they forget always. For instance, custom packaging would suddenly be delivered as products. So in one package, there was 5 dresses with ugly plastic bags…and 5 plastic bags that I paid a extra cost (yes that's what was delivered…so you can look really unprofessional).
Then I was told they would add amazon support. There was a feature work in progress. They removed it without notice. I trusted them…used their SKU. Suddenly, they wouldn't want anymore to ship to amazon FBA. And twice they shipped my package forgetting to add amazon labels. But I had to bear the costs (almost $1000 lost).
Another thing is I was shipping by economical train. Again, they removed the feature without notice.
I trusted them…but then they will just change without notice so you end up looking stupid not being able to handle your orders. And I still use their SKU which is make me hard to change agent…
In addition, their dispute system is bad. If post office don't deliver, they will ask you to ask your customer to fill a post office complain…but of course most customer will just create a dispute and you will lose your money as they will never give you a signature as proof of delivery. Also, they delivered wrong products. I shown them a photos. They told me as I contacted them in 20 days and not just 3 days (then they changed to 10), they won't refund me. I am one day a week in my warehouse…I receive hundreds en of products every week…there are no way to check everything in 3 or 10 days depending who will handle a dispute.
They can provide an IOSS number, but only if not a lot of articles in cart (even if amount is under 150 € because it was total amount of $80)…so when your best customer have a bid order. You can't use their service while thinking it was ok.
I am now switching to Tiksuper…we do everything manually for now and it cost 10% more due to the manual process. But they are very more reliable. No errors after 4 months and about 3000 products that I ordered.
If you want to work with CJ, here is my advise:
1) Forget anything who requires customs instructions…it will really depend on your agent. If you are lucky, it will be very well. If not, you will look stupid…and of course…understand when too late. And even if you have a good agent…once he resigns…it may turn a nightmare if next agent can't follow up.
2) Don't ship expensive products because their dispute system is not efficient. If you don't contact them in 3 days of if carrier don't want to deliver, they will just either tell you too late…or ask you to ask the customer to fill complains which is too long. Customer are too busy to spend 2 hours filling / follow up complains. Even when a customer did, they still didn't want to refund me. And truth is most post office will never give right to customer about complain. They just do it hypocritically because they don't want to refund. And they can't even suggest a shipping way with signature. They do bad their job. It is not compliant with amazon / paypal / stripe. And they won't take responsability and let your bear the cost.
3) Forget fashion products if you don't have high volume. They don't check if supplier send right products. And many time you will receive a nice sample…then a bad product a few months later when they change supplier without checking the new one is serious.
26 de octubre de 2021
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