
Quantity Breaks and Price Tiers for Terminals
The tier is the line the price steps on, because the quote that runs the terminal order is the quote the count reads against, and the count that crosses the tier is the count the p…
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The tier is the line the price steps on, because the quote that runs the terminal order is the quote the count reads against, and the count that crosses the tier is the count the p…
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When a buyer asks for a terminal to their own drawing the conversation eventually moves to the tooling, because the part does not exist until the dies and the molds exist. Three qu…
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The buyer who met us at the Canton Fair is not the buyer who always flies to Yueqing, because the fair is the fair that brings the buyer from the market that is far, and the market…
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Every Canton Fair ends the same way at our booth, the conversation on the table moves to the next line, and the next line is the line that says the fair is the place the part is sh…
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The booth is packed and the hall is empty, and the buyers who met us at the 140th session are the buyers we now invite to the place the booth was standing in for, the factory in Yu…
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The day after a fair closes, the hall is empty and the real work starts, because the fair is where the conversation is made and the work is where the conversation is finished. Ever…
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The autumn session of the 140th Canton Fair closed on October 19, and with it the last of the conversations we had at booth 14.3J1415 in Guangzhou. The booth is packed, the team is…
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A buyer opened a carton that had sat in the back of a store room for eight months, and half the lugs came out dark. The question that followed was the right one: is this damaged, o…
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"How long?" is the most asked question in our inbox, and it arrives with a straight face, as if the answer were one number. It is not. There are two clocks, one for stock and one f…
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A new customer emailed last month with a number in the subject line: 60 days. No company name, no order, no context. Just a number and a link to our catalog. The question behind th…
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