In 1999, when the Internet was still a rage in Hong Kong and throughout the world, Wah Sun Umbrella (H.K.) Ltd was already a Tradeeasy seller member eligible for online search of high-quality buyers from Tradeeasy.

Mr. Teddy Kwok, its proprietor, reveals that shortly after using the service, he began receiving a variety of serious inquiries from Tradeeasy buyer members, which strengthened his satisfaction in Tradeeasy's service offerings.

According to him, such inquiries mostly came through a Seller Service Centre (SSC) platform established by Tradeeasy, or directly through his company's own website. He understands perfectly that sales inquiries are not tantamount to actual sales, and that whether a transaction can succeed depends on a host of other factors. However, there is no denying that every inquiry coming in through Tradeasy represents a business opportunity.

Recently, a Polish buyer reached his company through the Tradeeasy platform and the process from price quotation to confirmation of the purchase order took only two weeks. As reflected in this episode, there is business potential even in a sales inquiry.

Besides buyers' inquiries, Wah Sun Umbrella will be using Tradeeasy's eIMS system to promote its latest collection of golf umbrellas. Through this system, publicity emails will be sent to the various global buyers in a proactive move to generate business opportunities from them.