Mastars is a prototype company in China. With our own factory, we adopt mature prototyping technologies (rapid CNC machining, rapid sheet metal prototyping, vacuum casting prototyping, 3D printing prototyping etc.), take new concepts or designs and bring them to life.

Many of our customers are not very clear about the fact that some prototype companies do not actually have factories at all, but are actually trading companies or middlemen. So what is a trading company? And why prototype processing does not choose the trading company? Here's a look at it.

what is a trading company?
1.Definition

Trading company generally refers to companies engaged in the transaction of goods and services. Its business scope includes buying, selling and other such as conducting business activities, but also can use the broker or agent identity to engage in activities. However, trading companies are intermediaries regardless of which way to engage in business activities.

2.Disadvantages
1) The middleman has to gain profit and the manufacturer will lose the amount of profit of the middleman.
2) The manufacturer will be dependent on the middleman and have a disadvantage in price negotiation.
(3) Feedback on customers' detailed needs is not timely.

why the prototype model processing does not choose the trading company?

1.After the trade company receives the inquiry from the customer, the process is similar to the general prototype factory, but in fact, they ask the customer for the drawing information is directly sent out to the real prototype factory for quotation, and then add the corresponding profit on the price and then report to the customer to earn the difference, in fact, it is the middleman or trader, which I believe we should be able to understand.

2.generally speaking, the price quoted by the trading company is to continue to increase the price quoted by the prototype factory, they are surviving by earning the difference, so the price must be higher than the prototype factory, or even much higher, some trading companies see that customers do not understand the situation even more ruthless, the price will be doubled above the price quoted by the prototype factory.

3. if the trading company wants to deliver to the customer will certainly send out the drawings to the prototype factory again, and traders in order to squeeze the cost will certainly look for more than one prototype factory for quotation, so that a problem will arise, the leakage of drawings. I believe that friends in the prototype industry should be clear that it is necessary to find a prototype processor to quote the prototype drawings that need to be done, so if you find a trading company to do the prototype, there will be a leakage of drawings. If your product is very important, it is even more important to give good consideration to the principle of confidentiality.

4.There is also the problem of after-sales service. The trading company may not know much about the prototype industry, so if the prototype has after-sales service problems, it will be very troublesome to communicate, not directly, and the problem may be so deviated that the problem cannot be solved.

Therefore, we must carefully verify when looking for a prototype factory, never look for a trading company, but a manufacturer, to find a truly professional prototype processing factory can not only reduce the cost of making our prototypes, and the principle of confidentiality of information is strong, will sign a confidentiality agreement with the customer before making the prototype, to ensure that its products will not have the risk of being leaked, the important thing is that the after-sales service is excellent, to the customer received The important thing is that the after-sales service is excellent, and we can promptly propose solutions to the problems that customers feedback after receiving the products, and quickly finish the reworking work.

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