What five China sourcing and logistics companies publish about their own scope, which of them run warehouses or ship on your behalf, and where Linkora Source is the wrong fit.
Why scope tells you more than the fee
A fee is only interpretable once you know what sits inside it. An agent whose price includes warehousing, consolidation and inspection is not expensive compared with one whose price includes none of those; the two are quoting for different jobs. Read the scope first, work out which of those services you actually need, and only then compare what each arrangement costs you in total.
- List the work you need done before reading anyone's price
- Check whether inspection, storage and shipping are inside or outside each offer
- Compare total landed outcomes rather than headline rates
Who runs a warehouse and moves your goods
This is the widest split in the market, and it decides how many parties you deal with. Checked on 8 September 2026: JingSourcing publishes warehousing periods and cargo consolidation, Leeline Sourcing publishes fulfilment warehouses in several Chinese cities together with freight forwarding, Supplyia publishes consolidation and retail-ready repacking, and Sofeast publishes a fulfilment centre with co-packing and kitting. Guided Imports now presents itself as a freight forwarder and third-party logistics provider rather than a sourcing agent, including a US customs broker service.
- JingSourcing, Leeline, Supplyia and Sofeast all publish storage or consolidation of some kind
- Guided Imports publishes freight and customs services and does not mention sourcing
- Linkora Source runs no warehouse, does no consolidation or kitting, and books no freight
Who does engineering, and who only carries the question
Product engineering is the second real divide. Sofeast publishes prototype development, reliability testing and design-for-manufacture review as named services with its own China laboratory. JingSourcing publishes product development. The others do not state engineering capability on the pages we read, and photography or graphic design is a different claim that should not be read as engineering.
- Sofeast publishes engineering and DFM review as named services
- Photography and design services are not engineering capability
- Linkora Source provides no engineering judgement and no design-for-manufacture review
Who tells you what they will not take on
Very few companies in this trade publish a refusal, which makes the ones that do worth noting. Supplyia publishes a list of product categories it does not accept, and Guided Imports publishes a geographic limit on where it operates. A published boundary is more useful to a buyer than another paragraph of capability, because it is the part that cannot be quietly stretched once work has started.
- Supplyia publishes product categories it will not take
- Guided Imports publishes a limit on where it operates
- Linkora Source states what each service is not, on the page for that service
Where Linkora Source is the wrong choice
Our normal engagement is a small order from a buyer who wants specific things checked, and we work from Jinhua, Zhejiang rather than spread across provinces. If you want one company to hold your stock, assemble kits, print labels, book the vessel and clear customs at the other end, that is a genuine need and we do not serve it. Several of the companies above do, and saying so is more useful to you than pretending otherwise.
- No warehousing, kitting, dropshipping or freight booking
- No engineering, design or design-for-manufacture review
- Travel outside 100 km of Jinhua is quoted before a visit is booked
How to check any of this yourself
Everything above was read from each company's own website on 8 September 2026 and is described in our words rather than quoted, because scope pages change. Treat this page as a starting point with a date on it, open the source links, and confirm the two or three services that actually decide your choice before you commit to anyone, including us.
- Open each company's own service pages rather than a review site
- Confirm whether a service is named by the company or only implied
- Ask any candidate to put the agreed scope in writing before work starts
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