Sourcing guides
Written for people who buy phone cases, not for people who browse them.
Each one answers a question a serious buyer actually asks, and each one includes something the answer costs us: a limitation we will not work around, a claim we cannot make, or a case where a factory suits you better than we do. If you are comparing suppliers on price alone, none of this will help you. If you are trying to avoid a bad first order, it will.
Deciding who to work with
Factory or trading company? How to tell, and how to verify
What actually changes when you buy from each, six ways to verify which you are dealing with, and when a factory suits you better than we do.
VerificationHow to vet a China supplier: a nine-stage process
Document checks, the live conversation, using samples as a stress test, and how to structure a first order. Applied to ourselves — including the three checks we only partly pass.
Selling into regulated markets
If you sell into the EU, these three answer questions buyers ask in the last stage before they order.
REACH and RoHS for phone cases
Phone cases are not CE-certified products — they are material compliance. What to ask a supplier for, and how to tell whether a test report is real.
EU marketEU GPSR: what sellers into the EU now need
Who the responsible person is, what must appear on your listing rather than a policy page, and a workable order of operations.
MarketplaceAmazon FBA compliance for phone accessories
What tends to get requested, the most common causes of a listing being removed, and how to build the documentation folder once.
Where to go next
These articles answer whether to work with us. If you have decided to, the practical pages are probably more useful than more reading.
Mixed orders
How an order split across plants works, and what it costs.
Light customisation
What is possible without a new mould, and what it costs.
The factory network
Which plant runs which line, and how to see them yourself.
The three compliance articles are a general orientation, not legal advice, and they deliberately do not quote numeric limits, article numbers or penalty amounts — those change, and getting them wrong is the reader's liability. For your specific product and market, confirm current requirements with a qualified professional.
We also do not claim certifications we do not hold. We tell you how to verify what a supplier is claiming — which is why we are comfortable publishing this at all.
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