Guide Foshan

Services

One guide on the ground in Foshan - for furniture, building materials and the whole business trip.

Furniture Sourcing

Residential, office, outdoor and hotel furniture from Lecong & Longjiang. I match your style and budget, separate real factories from traders, and negotiate in Mandarin on your behalf.

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Building Materials

Porcelain & ceramic tiles, stone slabs, sanitary ware, kitchen cabinets, doors, lighting and aluminum profiles - sourced across Foshan's specialist wholesale cities.

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Business Trip Concierge

Airport pickup, hotel, daily car & driver, interpreter, meeting scheduling and factory visits. You focus on decisions; I run the logistics.

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Add-ons

Everything you might need, in one hand

Quality Control

Sample approval, pre-shipment inspection and factory audits so what you ordered is what gets loaded.

Shipping & Consolidation

Multiple suppliers combined into one container, export docs handled, door-to-port or door-to-door.

Supplier Vetting

Business-license checks, factory verification and honest price benchmarks before you pay a deposit.

Interpreter & Translation

Mandarin, Cantonese and English - in showrooms, on calls and across WeChat after you fly home.

Itinerary Planning

A day-by-day route built around your product list so no time is wasted wandering.

After-Sales Follow-Up

Production tracking, payment milestones and problem-solving long after your visit ends.

Fees

Two numbers, agreed before we begin

Nothing is added later, and nothing comes to me from the factory side.

Sourcing

5–10% commission

One percentage of the factory invoice, fixed in writing before any work starts. Where it sits in that range depends on the size of the order and how much of the process you hand over.

On the ground

USD 100 a day

Days in the markets, showrooms and factories — translation, price checking, and written notes on every supplier we see. Charged whether or not you end up buying.

Inside the commission

  • Specifications, drawings and the written request each factory works from
  • Negotiation on price, MOQ, lead time, packing and payment terms
  • Pro-forma invoices checked before you pay anything
  • Production follow-up, photos from the floor, inspection before loading
  • Several suppliers consolidated into one container
  • Claims, replacement parts and warranty questions, months after you fly home

I am independent: paid by you, never by the supplier. That is why I can tell you a quote is too high, or that a "factory" is really a trading office. You pay the factory directly on its own invoice; travel, freight and duty go to those providers at cost.

Simple, transparent

Day-rate guiding or full project sourcing

Book me by the day for market visits, or hand over a full sourcing project end to end. Tell me what you need and I'll send a clear quote.

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