I do not disagree with you or
@Broken Chef, but it would probably be very helpful for a lot of new members if some of the old timers got together and made a “map”/guide for the new people and asked zip to sticky the post.
Everyone can’t be expected to have the time to do all that research.
Personally, I don’t really understand the motivation behind the gate keeping though (NOT trying to start something, it’s honest curiosity).
We won’t share our sources and forwarders since it’s our business, even though we don’t really compete with the Chinese market anyway.
But I don’t see why you need to have hidden buyer groups. Most vendors would be happy to do business with any buyer as long as they pay their price and meet their MOQ?