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TRYX(TR100) again! this time selling TRYX to China is more competitive

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A month ago, I summarized my experience of selling Casio TRYX EX-TR100 camera on Taobao in China. If you have read that article at that time, you might be thinking selling TRYX to China is easy and you can make a lot of money. But this time, I would say no.

Casio TRYX price trend in China

First, it is the disadvantage you will never avoid when selling on Taobao. It does not matter if you are the first seller ever of this TRYX camera. The fact that you are the first seller of this camera on Taobao does not have any affect to make sure you make the most money of it! This is almost true to everything selling on Taobao in China. Especially for C2C sellers like me, every one else has the right to sell the same product and every one else has the access to buy a TRYX camera. This makes the competition high! Well, at least here is the lesson we learn! To be the first seller of a potential hot product is not really a big advantage unless you have enough money in your pocket to keep yourself dedicated on selling this product! This way, you can dominate the quantity of the products e.g.TRYX on Taobao. The quantity gives buyers great confidence to buy the same product from you but not from your followers who start selling TRYX later than you do.

Second, many pro-sellers have so many means to buy the products from wholesale. They have the confidence to sell TRYX at a lower price. This eliminates competitions from small and medium sellers.

Third, pro-sellers are willing to pay ads on Taobao. This drives them more traffic than most small and medium sellers.

Fourth, pro-sellers will import a huge stock of TRYX without a fear! This is something no small and medium Taobao sellers can do. After the cameras arrive in China in there warehouse, people are more willing to buy from them because they don’t need to wait very long time compared to buying directly from US.

The last reason why TRYX is no longer a place for small and medium Taobao sellers to be in is the fact that TRYX’s production has not stopped!

So the question is where is the next Gold Rush? Mini-TRYX? Kindle Fire? To dominate the selling of a potential hot product is always the key on Taobao.

Selling Palm Pixi,Pre, and Veer to China. (case study 2)

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Last time we talked about one crazy case about selling unwanted TRYX camera to China making some profit. The casio camera TRYX TR-100 later proves my belief that it is not just an odd case in Chinese eCommerce market. Now here comes the unwanted Palm cellphones. They are selling very well on Taobao, and many smart phones online community. The difference is that this time, Chinese buyers online are buying the Palm phones not just because they like it, but also because the phone is cheap though unwanted in US.

 

First, we all know that HP touchpad’s fire-sale story right?? If it’s a okay spark for US buyers, then it’s a huge earthquake for Chinese ecommerce market. People there are used to the expensive iPad2. But suddenly, they got the news that HP touchpad is selling for only 99 dollars. Well, most sellers like us, we thought touchpad is the great opportunity for us to make some money online. But it turns out that Palm phones, also abandoned by HP, also have their great potential to sell well in China.

When people here in the US are treating Palm phones like trash, online Chinese buyers are trying there best to get a cheap smart phone like Palm’s pixi plus. You could find CDMA Verizon Palm pixi plus selling for only 37 dollars, and unlocked Pre2 selling for only 100 dollars eBay. This time, Palm’s Veer, Pixi, and PRE2,PRE3 find their value in Chinese online market such as Taobao, and many discussiong forum. Zoopad.com is a smart phone discussion forum, and many buyers there are posting request buying a Palm phone. Here I think it’s worth mentioning the size of Chinese market. Usually within one day, your post with fairly interesting topic on a popular forum will attract more than 1500 views. I think it’s a pretty good number.

Selling palm phones are not 100% the same as selling TRYXs to Chinese young buyers online. This time, you are facing more experienced geeky buyers who know more than you do about Palm and the price trend. But still, it is a good chance to make little money, because there is no one who wants Palm in US. The profit may be only 10%, but the demand in China is great! I think if I were a wholesale company and I have a full stock of palm phones, I will contact dreamsberry.com and ask dreamsberry to take care of the selling part. Well, this is just an ads I put here for myself. But it is just like the old saying goes, products like trash here maybe gold there.

One last very interesting phenomenon is the rise of Palms phone after its initial price cut. This phenomenon happened to TRYX. The camera first got a price cut in the US market due to its poor sales performance. But after Chinese start buying huge numbers of TRYX cameras from US, the price went up from 199 to 320 now. Despite the fact that many american ecommerce sellers are still wondering where the huge demand is coming from, they know they need to raise the price because the camera has some hidden demand. The same price rise happened to HP products like touchpad and palm. There is always connections between Chinese online market and American online market when some american products became hot in China. There is also always a delay of about 3-7 days before american sellers all start to realize there are some one out there buying the products. I assume the 3-7 days period is the best time you get as many orders as you could from China, and start selling as much as you could.

Tryx and Palm phones are not typical cases showing products in US can be sold well in China, but they are the extreme cases. To this point, I also know better than before that whoever controls the social voice online controls the Chinese online market. In another words, social selling is a prominent feature in China.

Selling to China Dropship Case Study: Casio TRYX Camera

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Case Study: Casio TRYX Camera

  • Method: Dropship
  • eCommerce Platform: Taobao
  • Marketing Platform: Chinese Micro Blogging Site Weibo and more
  • Shipping: Express.

It is very worthwhile to pause and talk about the recently “hot” product TRYX on Chinese ecommerce platform. When people in China are more than willing to pay 100% more to buy a TRYX camera which is not available in Chinese market, most of us in US probably have not hear about TRYX. It happens that one product selling extremely well in one country may not succeed in another country. For Casio, it is a huge irony for them. Casio only sell TRYX in Hongkong, Japan, and US. The US consumers does not like TRYXs, but the Chinese loved the. Ironically, Casio only sells TRYXs in US not China. Let’s talk little more facts about TRYX.
Casio TRYX, also known as Exilim-EX-TR-100, came out in the early month of 2011 at a price about 350 dollars. Starting in June, its price dropped to 249.99, and occasionally having an onsale price at 199.99 dollars. After July, TRYX’s price all drop to 199.99 online such as Amazon’s marketplace and in Bestbuy. On eBay, the less popular black model only sells for 160 dollars. TRYX is a very innovative camera in terms of its external design that allows you to take pictures at any awkward angle including taking pictures for yourself. It has 2 model, the black one and the white one. The white one is more popular among Chinese buyers online, but online Bestbuy seems to carry it. The black one is more available at all online ecommerce marketplaces. It began its crazy sale in China in the beginning of September.

  1. Why TRYX sucks in US.

TRYX is innovative and one of its kind. But I guess it’s because US buyers are aging. They don’t usually accept this type of very Japanese style products. It does not look professoinal nor tough. Why it sucks? More than that is because it’s quality. American consumers are little more conservative and maturer about buying cameras I think. TRYX does not have a real camera lens!! You can see from the picture that TRYX is just like a webcam. It’s lens surely promise that it is a less powerful camera. Thanks for the optics class I have taken. Among all the cameras in Bestbuy displayer, it looks just like a cheap toy maybe.

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2. Why  it is so so so popular in China

Well, one thing you need to understand is the internet culture and just all about Chinese online and offline culture. a.)Girls like to take pictures of themselves and post them online. b.)girls wants to look pretty c.)Rumor online spreads out fast saying TRYX is the “camera built for taking pictures for girls” It is so amazing that the camera will process the pictures and make them look nice.d.) They are young girls and their parents are rich, they don’t think too much when every one is trying their best to grab a TRYX. e.) It turns out some girls, after purchasing TRYX, posted their pictures taken by TRYX online, and it looked amazing. This is killing, because it stimulates more people trying to buy one.But sadly, no TRYX is available, and the TRYX in HongKong and Japan are way more expensive than the 199.99 dollars TRYX in US. By the way, TRYX’s innovative design and its unique HDR (dynamic range exposure) is unique, and a perfect combination for girls to take pictures for themselves. Talking about taking pictures for yourself at such a close distance, I guess the lens is less a factor.

 

3.How it started

Weibo, the microbloging service by Sina, is the origin where the rumor started. It is definitely natural, and thus the most powerful campaign! Because if it is planned by Casio, Casio would prepare to sell TRYX in China. But funny thing is, after one month now, at the beginning of October, it is hard to find a TRYX even online. Casio is no longer making them.Weibo is like twitter in China, and personally I think it has more features than Twitter. It is cool and user friendly. It is becoming the greatest marketing tool online but not many weibo users realize that.If you have a Taobao store, you should have a weibo account. Weibo will generate tons of leads for your sales in China eCommerce adventure.

4.Only China? China eCommerce=Chinese around the world eCommerce

From this case, there are one interesting thing I learned about selling to China and Chinese eCommerce. Most of the time, all the Chinese around the world is a whole non-separate online community. No matter where you are, Chinese in America will still use Weibo. I saw Taobao stores selling tons of TRYXs to Australia and Canada and Europe. Why? There are Chinese population there. So think about Chinese ecommerce, it is Chinese-speaking eCommerce.

5.Correspondence in American eCommerce market.

It is very reasonable to see that after a week of the crazy sale of TRYX in China TRYX’s price in US jumped back to 249.99 in Amazon and most other eCommerce stores. Taobao sellers who can ask their friends to buy a bunch of the TRYX from US are buying all the TRYXs and making the money. I saw some Taobao sellers selling TRYX for 3000RMB, that’s about 468dollars (1dollar=6.4RMB). They probably could buy a black TRYX from eBay for only 168 dollars at its lowest price.Imagine how much profit they made. Imagine how much money you could make by directly selling to China say just be a partner with us Dreamsberry. Dreamsberry will post your product on our Taobao store, and once we have the order from the customer, you can ship the item and get paid. Dreamsberry will also assist you with the shipping process.

6. Contact Dreamsberry and see how You can catch the next opportunity.

There is always opportunity like this and product like TRYX. Dreamsberry offers one stop service to help you selling your product to China.No matter who you are, a small ecommerce store owner, a distributor, or a large ecommerce business owner.

 

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卡西欧TRYX 自拍必备，美女专用百变照相机代购贴

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大家好，小店最近TRYX卖的很好，是国内唯一的低价代购，2188-2288包邮，美国货，这是店主的一个小网站，在这里建立连接，可以到小店淘宝购买。

-中关村报价3000

-我们算上邮费和当地消费税只要2288（白色）2188（黑色）

-港货2400+，还可能是水货。注意美行肯定是比港行好的，美标比港标要严格！

-港货EX100就是美国叫的TRYX，名字和贴牌不一样，由于市场不同。

-官方配置，建议自配大容量SD卡，本机已含内置内存。连接线，充电器。

-中文菜单和中国可用充电器。

-台湾和加拿大都很难买到了，中国不上市。

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