{"id":197,"date":"2026-05-08T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balloonsuppliercn.com\/2026\/05\/08\/sourcing-101-how-to-vet-a-balloon-manufacturer-in-yiwu\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:32:54","slug":"sourcing-101-how-to-vet-a-balloon-manufacturer-in-yiwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balloonsuppliercn.com\/zh\/sourcing-101-how-to-vet-a-balloon-manufacturer-in-yiwu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sourcing 101: How to Vet a Balloon Manufacturer in Yiwu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five red flags to avoid and seven questions you must ask before placing your first wholesale order overseas.<\/p>\n<h2>Five Red Flags<\/h2>\n<p>1. No factory visit policy<br \/>2. Prices significantly below market average<br \/>3. No quality certifications<br \/>4. Unwillingness to provide samples<br \/>5. No clear MOQ or inconsistent pricing<\/p>\n<h2>Seven Essential Questions<\/h2>\n<p>1. What is your annual production capacity?<br \/>2. Can you provide third-party test reports?<br \/>3. What is your defect rate and return policy?<br \/>4. Do you offer OEM\/custom printing?<br \/>5. What are your standard lead times?<br \/>6. Can you provide references?<br \/>7. What shipping methods do you support?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five red flags to avoid and seven questions you must ask before placing your first wholesale order overseas.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b2b-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balloonsuppliercn.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balloonsuppliercn.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balloonsuppliercn.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balloonsuppliercn.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balloonsuppliercn.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balloonsuppliercn.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/balloonsuppliercn.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balloonsuppliercn.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balloonsuppliercn.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balloonsuppliercn.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balloonsuppliercn.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}