About

I am Panda Cao. I live in Hangzhou. I have spent years buying from factories here — first for my own projects, then for friends, then for people who found this site and emailed out of nowhere. Yiwu is an hour away by train. Ningbo port is two hours. Most of the suppliers you are looking at are a day trip from my flat.

I started this because of a simple gap. There are thousands of sites that will forward your enquiry to a supplier, and almost nobody who will get on a bus and stand in the workshop. That is the part I do.

What I actually do all day

• Order things on Taobao and 1688 that will not ship abroad.
• Open boxes in my living room and count what is inside.
• Sit in factories that smell of machine oil, asking how many lines are running.
• Call suppliers who would rather not answer, and call again.
• Write up what I found, including the parts that make me look wrong.

What I believe

• You should pay the supplier, not me. The moment I hold your money, my incentive changes.
• Bad news early is a good service. If the factory is a trading company in a rented office, you hear it on day one.
• Photos are evidence, not marketing. You get the ugly ones too.

How I work

Small jobs, one at a time. There is no team behind this page and no account manager. If I am booked, I will tell you the date I can start instead of promising tomorrow.

I use AI to find suppliers. I use my hands to check them.

Still not sure if I am real?

Send me a supplier name and one question about them. If the answer is useless, you have lost nothing.

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