Buyers beware – it’s not business as usual!
That is the caution from Dr Lynette Holder, chief executive officer of the Small Business Association (SBA), and prominent businessman Eddy Abed in reaction to a businessman complaining that he had been scammed by a vendor in China.
Both said that due diligence was paramount as Barbadians become attracted to China’s cheaply priced goods.
Businessman Noel Hoyte was featured in last Monday’s paper lamenting that more than two years after ordering aluminum coils from a vendor in China and receiving galvanised metal instead, he has been unable to recover his $32 000.
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