China Wholesale Group Buy Review: Is It Cheaper? Is it safer or just another scam?

There was no doubt that Chinese commodities alleviated the cost of  living, especially when the global economy fell down. We had talked about “China Wholesale” since 2007, woohooo, and 4 years already. And  I found a new trend:” Wholesale + Group Buy” lat month. I would like to make some briefing here.

What is the difference between Wholesale and Group Buy Wholesale?

In fact, they had no differences. Most of the products were still made in China, shipping from China. Aliexpress Grubee was an exception, for most of its products were ship from US.

How about those websites, offering “China Wholesale Group Buy”. Are they brand new? Reliable?

I would like to fall them into 5 categories.

1 Just for more traffic. Like DHgate.com, their wholesale Group buy page was just product search result. When you clicked to buy, you did not need to wait. The following site took some similar actions to promote :
tradehong.com: It had been on our watch list for almost 1 year. It was a small wholesaler.
chinawholesalegroup.com: It seemed just another copy of Lightinthebox.com, and it was built in the old interface of Lightinthebox.com. It means the site was in low quality. No contact detail also disclosed the uncertainty.
Tradeage.com & chinese-factory.com: just small sites, copying other big wholesalers and make a tough living by manipulated the search results in Google.