John Q N.

Being a completely newbie to the world of Amazon wholesale FBA, I have been hunting for profitable products to buy in bulk and resell. So I narrowed down to selling energy drinks and thru my research of suppliers I cam across several ones listed on globalresources.com (at great price) so I sent out a lot of inquiries. Got back several responses and decided to work with this supplier named TFC Trading LTD and went thru their elaborate scamming process like a guinea pig... Lost $8K in this stupid process...

They started out responding pretty fast to me and answering all of my logistical questions really well about to buy products in their country (Turkey) and ship back to US. They showed business license like a VAT ID # which I did check with the European Union Commission website and their business name of TFC Trading LTD popped up. That made me believe that they are legit supplier.

The term was to pay them 50% first for payment of the 10 pallets of Monster energy drink (which costs total $2.3K USD with them). So I paid and gave them SKU labels, box labels from my Amazon seller account. Then they had their "shipping company" contacted me to provide tracking number/waybill for my product. I went onto the shipping company website called Fastloadcargo.com and punch in the tracking number to double check and my shipment data popped up. At this point, I pretty much believe everything was real so I proceeded with sending them the other half of the $2.3K product cost.

Feeling good and excited that I am about to sell my first product on Amazon soon. I woke up the next day to their email urgently informing me that my package has been stuck at custom due to missing paperwork and insurance, etc. They required $5.5K insurance money to be wired over (98% refundable) to help get my package to clear Turkish custom... I panic and actually wired the money over like a dumbass (as I was desperate to see my Amazon FBA journey take off). Next day, they messaged me again and asked for another $7.8K as additional paperwork is needed to clear custom still... At this point, I was certain I am getting scammed and reported to my bank fraud specialist team and get help with retrieving the money but probably hopeless to be honest.

I tried to contact another supplier on globalsources.com to see if it was just really my bad luck or there are actually lots of scammers on that site and indeed, another Chinese supplier that I found responded to me and asked for my email. Then some completely other company contacted me via email with company name not matching the name of the Chinese supplier that I found. This Chinese supplier is supposedly a "Verified" seller on globalsources.com for 2 years... How could this be possible that the site is giving "Verified" badge to scammer?

Unbelievable. Bunch of scammers on there so DO NOT use this site at all and somebody need to shut globalsources.com down as they are assisting scammers to create more victims like myself everyday...