Lightinthebox.com Review: What is the Light in the box?

Recently a company called Lightinthebox is listed on the search enquiry of Wholesale and China Wholesale in Google. Lots of people are very keen to lean more about it since it has listed above costco.com, the largest wholesaler in USA. Today we will show you a tour on this mystical wholesale website.

Where it comes from and is it legal ? Is it a fraud or scam ?

Lightinthebox is a China based company, it has its head offices in Beijing, the capital of China. Also it has a branch in Shenzhen, a city near Hongkong. (Shenzhen is a giant in the Global electronic market, all the iPhone, iPod are made there). The branch focuses on sourcing product and ships to the client once they get your order on line.

Lightinthebox is legal, not a fraud or fishing site at least. First they have Google payment gateway, Google checkout, which you can see easily on its AdWords ad. The merchant who applies google check out are only limited to merchant has US OR UK bank account. So your money is still under the watch of the USA bank.

Who are they? what they sell? When I make deals with them, am I deal with an unknown seller ?

In fact, lots of frequent visitors may know that we have reviews on another Chinese wholesale company called DHgate, a very popular wholesale marketplace for eBay seller. when you make deals in DHgate, you are making business with its sellers. However, It is completely different here in lightinhebox.com. Lightinthebox is a merchant. It means you are doing business directly with them. You can complaint directly without any 3rd party handling and transferring. One of my friends has buy a lot of goods from this company, he confirmed with me that all the products were shipped from a same address in Shenzhen. I also had enquired about their souring and logistics process. It seems that they have their own warehouse and they will check the products before they send them out.

How about the products? Especially the iPhone?

Lots of people will found lots of iPhone listed on lightinthebox. In fact, I think that it is only to attract your eyes. The real available products are those copied iPhone, Hiphone? CNET phone, Xphone....These copied iPhones are really crazing and cool for the outlook which is the same with Apple Iphone, what is more, they have more advanced functions, such as you can shake it to receive a call or to change the song playing. They are made of cheap microchips from Taiwan but all the functions are just a little slow working than the authentic iphone. You should never expect those copied iPhone has wifi function and would work like the real one but you can still surf the wap.

The other products are cool with competitive prices. But just like other China wholesaler, you should never expect that the brand items are direct from its OEM factories.

Can I buy from them if I am a common shopper?

Lightinthebox are focusing on the wholesaler and dropshiper market. Their products have wholesale prices. However, most of the products are available for comment shopper. But if you could see the "wholesale only" mark in the item listing pages, You can`t buy it for single item.

Dropship issues

If you are looking a better sources for ebay business or replace Doba or worldwildbrand.com, Lightinthebox may be your answer because it do support dorpship world wide.

Payment Issues

Are there any different in its payment process? I found it is the same as the other online shopping website in USA. If I do not tell you it is from China, some may think that they are buying from a copied overstock for some of its interface do look like overstock.

Return Policy and Dispute

Ha ha, I am still working on this issues, not much data online can be reviewed. So I decide to buy a product and request a refund and return. X`max is a season to return products, I will update in the next few days for the result. Just keep your eyes on our lightinthebox review.

At last,Light In The Box, really do not know why they name it so long, but it is very easy to remember, isn`t it ?