Today, let's discuss the professional knowledge of the fastener industry.

1) Most fasteners are processed and manufactured from metal materials, involving disciplines such as alloys, structural mechanics, ferrous metals, metallurgy, machinery, physics, and chemistry, requiring knowledge at the university level or above.

2) Most bosses of fastener companies in China come from peasant backgrounds and have only primary school education. If you test them with middle school knowledge such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry, including trigonometry, plane geometry, solid geometry, physical mechanics, and chemical reaction equations, you will know their educational level by seeing if they can answer them.

In China, people with a normal university education level do not sell fasteners. Only those with primary school education who cannot do anything else come to sell fasteners, but they cannot even understand how to make fasteners. So, you can probably guess the level of your suppliers, who are basically all primary school educated, regardless of age.

So don't be surprised by what they say to you, because their knowledge level is not high, and there's nothing we can do about it. This is the case for over 95% of fastener companies.

3) Alternatively, you can test them using high school exam papers from your country to assess their knowledge level. Please verify with facts.

4) The above may not be important, but what your company wants to procure is fasteners. How are fasteners processed and manufactured? Of course, it's through mutual copying. For example, the boss of Company H may have been the former workshop director of Company G, which copied from Company F, which copied from Company E, which copied from Company D, and so on. When problems arise, they don't understand. As long as someone comes up with an effective solution, everyone copies it and then takes it back to their own company for use.

This will lead to severe homogenization, where basically all companies' fasteners are of the same quality. So how do you choose? There's only one option left, and that's the payment terms. Ask them for a payment term of 90-360 days. If the company agrees, it proves that this company has the capability. The goal is to pay your supplier after you receive the goods and inspect all the quality issues about 2-10 months later. Isn't this more secure and safe? Don't you want your supplier to guarantee the quality? Don't you want to find a capable supplier?

Most companies aim to sell fasteners at lower prices, so the quality of fasteners is deteriorating, the weight is getting lighter, and the size is getting smaller. This can save costs, and even elementary school students know this, right? Alright, let's discuss mechanical properties and material issues. Is the quality of these increasingly cheaper fasteners really good? Do you want to spend money on low-quality, problematic fasteners? Are you paying for reliable, high-quality fasteners that give you peace of mind, or are you paying for cheap, problematic fasteners?

The fact is that all companies have to purchase fasteners from other companies, and outsourced fasteners account for more than 70% of total sales, or even more than 95%. The outsourced fasteners come from different companies across the country. How can the quality of the fasteners they sell to your company be guaranteed? Who can guarantee it? Only your payment time can guarantee the quality of the supplier's fasteners.

In the fastener industry, if one company has 5 employees and another has 200 employees, the difference is not significant, as the product quality and delivery time may be the same. Moreover, some companies like to boast and deceive customers, flaunting their company's strength everywhere, which is unnecessary. Please let these companies speak through their payment terms, rather than their mouths.

Whether a company has real strength can be understood by looking at its payment terms, without the need for the company's boss or salesperson to say too many boastful words.

5) Some companies register multiple companies at the same address, such as certain companies in Suzhou. The purpose is that if Company A encounters issues, they can immediately use Company B to re-establish cooperation with you, in order to prevent you from discovering their past problems. Please don't be deceived.

If their new companies are registered in different places and have different legal representatives, you have no idea how they might deceive you.

6) Some Chinese companies like to spread rumors about other companies everywhere, regardless of whether they are true or false, and even drag people from other companies and countries to spread rumors together. Is this really good? Do you think this person has high or low morality? Do you think this person and this company can cooperate? Aren't you afraid that the boss and employees of this company will spread rumors about you everywhere in the future?

7) Cooperate with our company to eliminate all your worries and provide you with a comprehensive and full-process fastener solution.

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Please allow me to talk about the rumors and bad words spread among numerous fastener companies

In this country, over the past few thousand years, most people have been those who like to speak ill of others, spreading rumors and bad words among each other.

In a specific industry, you often hear Company A badmouth Company C to Company B. To convince Company B, Company A may even enlist Company D to join in the badmouthing of Company C, in order to strengthen their argument.

The purpose of rumor spreaders is to attack competitors and prevent them from seizing their market share.

The essence of the rumors is that Company A and Company D are weak and fear competition from Company C. Essentially, Company C is the strong one, and it is only because Company A and Company D cannot compete with Company C that they spread various rumors and engage in various bad words and deeds.

For customers, they should ignore Company A and Company D, or any negative comments from anyone. As long as they offer a payment term of 90-360 days, there is no risk for the purchasing party.

The solution is to ask all suppliers, including Company A and Company D, to offer customers payment terms ranging from 90 to 360 days. Let everyone speak with their actions and payment terms, rather than spreading rumors with their mouths.