How To Pay For Alibaba Purchases & Why Your Credit Card May Be Getting Declined

How to pay for Alibaba purchases? And why your Credit Card may be getting declined when you try to pay.

So I notice many new importers and sellers are both confused and intimidated when making their first purchase on Alibaba.

Alibaba is different from how most of us are used to making online purchases. Unlike sites like eBay, Amazon, and even DHGate and Ali Express, Alibaba is a B2B platform and not a B2C platform. They don't have a shopping cart, and everything from how you pay, to the price of items, to how you want your items shipped and who pays the customs duties is all up for negotiation.

While in some ways this leaves you with more flexibility, it can also be intimidating early on in your importing career.

In this video we discuss how to pay suppliers, as well as trouble shoot why a credit card being used for purchase may be getting declined.

I made this video in response to a comment and question from Mark McCarell who asked...

"Explain to me how you pay for the product? Alibaba denies credit cards constantly and doesn't tell you why, wire transfers are extremely expensive, paypal isn't excepted but for a few vendors, and there's no western union close to me."