Why choose an independent platform instead of Alibaba for your business?

I am Yang, the founder of Peiyue, I have been engaged in foreign trade business since 2013, and started my own trading business in 2015, which is mainly involved in the production and sourcing of jewelry.In 2019, we cooperated with several factories to set up Peiyue, and began to provide diversified products. With the rise of e-commerce platforms, the competition has become more and more intense, and it has become difficult for ordinary products to meet the profit demands of customers. Therefore, from 2021, we gradually shifted our development direction to provide small batch customization service. in 2023, we established our customization website: prilagodite.com

In the past, large quantities were usually required to customize the style of product you wanted. For example, packaging usually required starting quantities of several thousand, apparel starting quantities of several hundred, and even jewelry required quantities of 200 or more to be customized, and the styles were still selected from the supplier’s existing product library. At Prilagodite, you can now customize packaging with your logo or design in quantities of just a few dozen, and we also offer personalized and customized accessories, even if you only want to order 1. In addition, we offer customization of branded furniture. For more customization, please check out our website at prilagodite.com.

We have served over 500 bulk customers with 100% satisfaction in the past, and our company ships with almost no complaints because we usually fix the problem before shipping. Even if there is a problem during the shipping process, we will provide the most satisfactory solution to our customers. At Prilagodite, we will continue to maintain the same level of quality and service, striving for 100% satisfaction. We offer 1-to-1 service with a real person, not a cold AI auto-responder. All questions will be answered within 24 hours, and if the response is an hour late, you will receive a discount on your order that can be stacked up to 10%.

Prilagodite vs Alibaba:

We used to connect with customers mainly through trade shows, but we could not provide satisfactory service to all inquiring customers in just 5-7 days, many customers left after choosing the products, and some of them didn’t even have a chance to leave their business cards. In this way, we missed the opportunity for each other.

We have also opened stores on Alibaba, Sizzle, Amazon and other platforms, why now we do not continue to enter these platforms and choose the independent station?

First of all, the price: Alibaba’s basic store opening fee is 39,900 rmb/year, and gold members need more than 100,000/rmb per year, in addition to additional transaction commissions and high advertising costs. These costs will eventually be equalized by the supplier to the product, the most total damage is still the interests of the buyer.

While building our own platform, there is no need to open a store fee, no gold membership fee, and no transaction commission. In terms of price, we are far cheaper than Alibaba.

In terms of products, a lot of content cannot be customized due to the limitations of the Alibaba platform. But at Prilagodite, you can customize any content and images you want.

At Alibaba, if you need multiple types of products, you need to contact multiple suppliers, which not only wastes time but also requires repeating multiple tasks. But at Prilagodite, we have integrated excellent factories in various categories, you only need to contact us to customize multiple types of products and ship them at the same time.

Our business and how to contact us:

Prilagodite’s goal is to help customers customize promotional items, customize gifts with special features, and print various patterns or corporate logos onto a variety of products, such as clothes, mugs, school bags, pillowcases, and more. We can even help you customize various well-known or popular furniture.

If you have any products that need to be customized, just submit the form on our website, or send email to : doris@prilagodite.com, and one of our sales will get back to you within 24 hours. You can also contact us directly via WhatsApp and we will reply within 12 hours.

What your will meet in running a independent platform?

The problem that you may encounter when using an independent platform for your business is trust, because there is no 3rd platform guarantee, customers may worry that they cannot receive the goods after payment or they cannot contact someone if there is any problem with the quality of the goods. To address this issue, we recommend that you start with a small order, many customers start with a few hundred dollars and gradually increase the amount of the order and keep the relationship.

Even if you place an order through Alibaba, there is no guarantee that the supplier is reliable. The only thing they can guarantee is that you will receive the goods, and as long as the goods are not too bad, you basically cannot apply for a full refund. To address this issue, you can choose to pay with PayPal, and you can also apply for a full refund if we don’t ship the goods or the goods are too poor in quality.

In addition to the above problems, there is another important issue is the store traffic, which is like starting from scratch by yourself, you need to promote yourself.

If you are also hesitating whether to choose the third platform or to build a platform of your own, you can refer to my content above, I hope it can help your decision, of course, we are also happy to answer any questions you have at any time!