Be Careful of Cells / Panels Made in Zhejiang

Recently we've received some complains from Spain that they've got some panels shipped from Ningbo (a commercial city located in East Zhejiang Province of China). The panels are bad, regardless of their labels marked as A0 products. The cells have significent chromatic aberrations. The power output is not stable. 

Well, congratulations, you've got one of the infamous province's products. The province was, and is always famous for its pirated, cheap but bad quality products. Despite of some world famous factories in the province are still manufacturing good quality products, many smaller workshop do sell (mainly domestically) un-qualified products. 

So, please be aware, when you receive a very low price, from an unknown workshop in the province, do check the background of that company, and better fly over and check by yourself. Don't risk yourself. Although I am not accusing the whole province's industry, I do express my concern on the issues that may seriously poison the market. 

Be Careful Of Market Ambushers

Recently when you Google Solar Panels in Alibaba the largest B2B platform you would probably find a lot of solar panel distributors in Korea, China and Taiwan. A small amount of them I can guarantee that never exist while a certain amount of them are ambushers or very small brokers.

Today somebody told me that some factory (if there is any) is selling in a world remarkable low price. Wow.

What I am suggesting here, is, for USA and Europe buyers, before you get your cheque out of pocket, check the background of that company. Email the sales representative of the company and telephone them. Get your feelings about their reliability. Always remember, it is not worth to get yourself into trouble after one or two years because you want to save 5 cents per W. You do need a reliable manufacturer to guarantee the products warranty!