Expert: Jim Novo - 12/18/2006

Question
Hello, i am lpanning to start a E-commerce business, amd to find certain importers in the worl for certain products that i will represent electronically, and my question is do you know reliable sites where i could find contact for importers,because there is plenty of sites and i can't know if they r true ?? Thanks

Answer
I don't know of any "reliable" sites on this topic; it is a massive fraud and spam target.  Best bet would be go to a real library (yes, an offline library!) and do some research - look through reference section / ask reference librarian for help locating information on importers and copy it off.  Then, if you want to work through the web rather than offline (the phone?) then use your reference material to locate legitimate online sources.

For example, these guys appear to be legit:

http://www.importersnet.com/index.htm

If you go to the library and find their Directories in the reference section, you will know they are legit.  Then you can get their digital product and not worry about it.

Jim