How to Use TradeKey.Com for Buying and Selling

TradeKey.com is one of the world’s largest B2B portals and one of the leading marketing services providers for manufacturers and suppliers. TradeKey is a commercial enterprise and a leading platform for online business; here you can search for the required products or can find potential customers. You may post your selling or buying offer as well as send inquiry to an already posted offer.

TradeKey.com is the place for sellers and buyers to promote their online business and to find trade opportunities. TradeKey.com connects you with worldwide importers, exporters, wholesalers, agents, manufacturers and suppliers.

To promote your business through TradeKey and to find potential business partners, you should follow following steps.

For Sellers

Sellers can find buyers on tradekey.com in anyone or both of the two simple steps.

By Publishing Sale Offer

You may post sell offers, it will appear in the sell offers list and when the buyers looking for that product would search that product on tradekey.com your offer would be displayed and he will contact you provided that your profile and product specification is attractive (human behavior). If you register as a free member, you may post five to fifty sell offers.

Search for the Offers Posted by the Buyers

Another way is to search tender offers posted by the buyers directly or write the name of the product on the search bar and press enter. A list of products would appear in the search result. You may send inquiry to all the available deals. You may contact the buyer by either sending him message through tradekey.com or by using trademate.

For Buyers

Searching for the products to buy on tradekey.com is very much identical to posting selling offer. The only difference is the category. Like posting selling offer you may post your buy offer in the buy offer section and you can also search for it by using search bar. As a free member you may post as much as twenty buy offers for your products. By posting buy offer, supplier would find you themselves.

However, it is better to use both the ways for selling as well as buying products.

Is My Money Safe on TradeKey.Com?

As tredekey.com is one the biggest b2b portal of the world, it has many controversies. One of the controversies is that is it safe to trade at TradeKey.com? If you have tried to research on internet and has seen negative tradekey reviews and hence are afraid of starting doing business on tradekey.com then you should do some deep research for this. TradeKey has positive and negative reviews both on internet. But the fact is that first you would need to understand that any popular product or brand cannot live without blames and controversies, people do not leave them without negative remarks.

Consider your favorite product and company; whether it is Coca-Cola or Star bucks, it would definitely have negative comments on the internet. But the thing is how to distinguish between genuine and jealous comments. The answer of this question is simple; always check the authenticity and neutrality of the source and individual reviewer. If the source is authentic and known for its neutrality then the review would be authentic otherwise there are many people who write for anyone, good or bad, who pays them for writing reviews. Among them some write only genuine reviews even after taking fees of review writing.

This is not a something that cannot be tracked, you may search for the reviews of the reviewer; and if the reviewer is untraceable then it is not authentic. Some authentic resources that have given coverage to tradekey.com include the Asia’s biggest technology blog tech-in-asia and another authentic resource is one of the Pakistan’s biggest newspaper blog the express tribune. There are also many places where tradekey has been reviewed but these two are the most authentic resources as they are neither in favor nor against tradekey.

If you read these two reviews then you would realize that it is very possible for tradekey to have such a large number of positive and negative reviews. You do not need to think a lot for using tradekey.com for business only if you commit to follow their rules that would help you saving yourself from the scammers out there.

Incoterms on TradeKey.com - Part 2

As discussed in the previous part of this article about incoterns on tradekey.com international chamber of commerce has published Incoterns for international commercial transactions. To remind the users I am repeating that while trading at tradekey you must follow the safety guidelines by an international body. Some of them were discussed in the previous article while some other are discussed in this part.

Carriage and Insurance Paid To (CIP): The risks and obligations of the supplier continue until the product is delivered to the destination of buyer. The supplier should pay the cost of delivery and insurance.

Delivered at Frontier (DAF): The risks and obligations of the supplier continue until the product is delivered the destination that is designated by the buyer, provided the product has not been unloaded from the transport.

Delivered Ex Ship (DES): The risks and obligations of the supplier continue until the product reaches the port, and onboard shipping vessel, provided it has not been cleared for import yet.

Delivered Ex Quay (DEQ): The risks and obligations of the supplier continue until the product is unloaded into quay (wharf or dock) at the designated port, provided that it has not yet cleared for import.

Delivered Duty Unpaid (DDU): The risks and obligations of the supplier continue until the buyer accepts the delivery of products at the designated designations, if it is not yet unloaded and cleared for import. Buyers should clear products for the import.

Delivered Duty Paid (DDP): The supplier is responsible for all the transportation costs including delivery fees and import.

These are some of the points of Incoterm. Although all the necessary information has been discussed in this article and its first part but even then it is better to read the actual terms as you should be very careful in business plans. Business dealings are not like buying a toilet tissue or a set of shoes, it is a very sensitive matter and hence anything done must be discussed before with a legal advisor. If you do not have yet any legal advisor then you should urgently search for a qualified lawyer who has experience of being a legal advisor or have worked on businesses cases and hire him as your legal advisor.

Incoterms on TradeKey.com - Part 1

To stop frauds and scams in business international chamber of commerce have published some sales terms to be used in international commercial transactions. Hence, even if you are trading on TradeKey, you must follow these guidelines in order to save yourself from frauds. TradeKey.com have their fraud protection process but it is better to follow the guidlines set by international body.

At a stage in shipping process, the legal ownership of products passes from the supplier to buyer. This actually happens in a highly technical manner, which affects which party pays for the shipping, for the insurance, and when risk of damages passes from the supplier to buyer.

When the supplier typically sets the terms of ownership, then they are negotiable. Though, while discussing them with the supplier, buyer should be specific and clear as even the small misunderstandings may lead to big arguments afterwards on the point that who would bear the cost and the risk.

While discussing these things about shipping, you will come across Incoterms. They are a total of 13 terms that describe different ways of the risk and ownership transfer from supplier to buyer.

Ex Works (EXW): Supplier’s risks and obligations end if buyer takes the possession of the products at the premises of the supplier, without stipulations for export or shipping.

Free Carrier (FCA): Supplier’s risks and obligations end if the supplier delivers the products to the shiiping carrier of the buyer, cleared for export.

Free Alongside Ship (FSA): Supplier’s risks and obligations end if the supplier places the products at the site of shipping vessels at the port of exit, which is cleared of export.

Free on Board (FOB): Supplier’s risks and obligations end if the supplier places the products past the rail of shipping vessel, which is cleared for export.

Cost and Freight (CFR): Liability and ownership changes if the supplier places the products past the rail of shipping vessel that is cleared for export.

Cost, Insurance, and Freight (CIF): Supplier’s risks and obligations end if the supplier places the products past the rail of shipping vessel, which is cleared for export. But the supplier is then obligated to buy only the minimal marine insurance.

Carriage Paid To (CPT): Supplier’s risks and obligations continue until the product is delivered to the buyer. The buyer assumes the risks only after taking possession of the products.

There are some other terms also that are discussed in the next part of this article.

Is TradeKey.com Safe for trading?

A real genuine business investigates any platform or company before investing. So, if you are a business man and have just seen tradekey.com and have impressed with it and now thinking to invest in it but are confused whether to trust them or not then you must be careful for that as many people have tried to discredit it. A genuine person being hurt by tradekey (if any) would never have time to create a website or blog especially for SEO (search engine optimization) purpose, but these types of websites and blogs are many for tradekey. However, authentic sources of reviews are big newspaper and big blogs, Blogs that are known for neutrality. Tradekey.com, like any other giant in any industry, has been reviewed by big blogs like tech-in-asia (Asia’s biggest technology blog) and newspaper like the express tribune (a very renowned name in Pakistan).

Tradekey.com is one of the biggest portals for online trading. It not only provide you with the ways and tools for doing your business globally but also offer many services that are beneficial for your business like digital market, calling people, and so on. They also provide their services for making it easy to use tradekey.com efficiently and safely. It would be better for you to use it their way, in the way they recommend or otherwise you may be bait for scammers and fraud.

They offer you a buyer consultant that not only takes measures to save you from the scammers at tradekey.com, but also brings business to you. They have a team of qualified members who bring inquiries to seller and genuine seller to buyers. If you check their membership plans then you will notice that they use multiple channels of marketing and sales to bring business for you.

As you may experience that going on tradekey.com and making account there is not a big deal, it is kept easy for everyone like you to make account for free. But as the team of tradekey does not know that are you a real business man or a fraud. To make it easy for genuine customers to post their offers, it has also become easy for scammers and fraud to post it either. In order to differentiate them tradekey services are the best choice.