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Posted By: Patricia Griffin In Response To: The World Business Exchange Network(www.wbe.net) (Steve Penner)
Wednesday, 2 November 2005, at 6:14 a.m.
A lot of their information is ... not well labeled.
For instance, the section "1 WBE Is Certified By The U.S. Dept. Of Commerce" is not a US certification and certainly not a USDOC certification. If you look at the PDF, it's a memo from their own organization (they're calling it a "certificate of review") saying that they applied to the California (not US) DOC. So the only "certification" there is one they proclaim.
I find that ... "weasel-worded."
Their "breaking news" is not about them, but fluffy stories about the export industry in general. I have seen "weasel-worded" sites do the same thing elsewhere (some MLM program cites Donald Trump, horribly misquoting him and making it seem as though he would leap right into MLM when in truth he said no such thing.)
The news stories listed for the company are mostly PR pieces that appear to be written by the owner. If you check on the newspapers, you will see that they are very small papers with small circulation that accept articles written by the owners themselves. While this isn't particularly evil or bad or shows malicious intent, it's simply something to be aware of.
I think you will have better luck in the import and export if you are importing for a business of your own rather than to sell B2B. Retailers get swamped by offers, and there is no guarantee that you can match buyers and sellers, particularly if it's in a market you don't know.
Sometimes you can get stuck with product. I do know someone who imports and exports animal carcass parts for biological labs. He once wound up with a truckload full of beef eyeballs (eeew) and no place to sell them. That was a financial loss that was compounded further by the costs of (eventually) landfilling the things.
There are many importers and exporters around. You might try looking into import/export items in one of your hobby areas and selling those to local hobbyists or on Ebay before you commit a lot of time and energy to finding, say, markets in other countries for US sparkplugs that are being dumped because of outdated technology or liability problems.
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