How to Sell Baby Formula Online?

tik tok on 20/10/2017 - 10:36
Last edited 22/10/2017 - 15:52 by 1 other user

Hopefully, its the right forum.

Was on ACA again yesterday - people buying baby formula in groups and selling it online. I know this has been going on for a while, including sales of vitamins.

My question is, if I have to sell baby formula online, how exactly does this work ?
Buy formula from Coles (4, of course), list it on ebay, and pray for a sale ?

Where/how are these guys selling baby formula. I would have thought one sale a day would be good for starters and on TV I see individuals buying at least 20 of them a day. That's quite a sale figure for a specific online business tbh. At a net profit of $2 a formula - sell 20 of them and make 40 bucks a day. Around $800 a month. Thats a few bills taken care of.

Cheers,

Food & Grocery

Comments

        • ganymede on 23/10/2017 - 18:26
          +1

          @MissG:

          Exactly! BF is so much easier, I get it that some mothers might struggle with supply but if the bub is going through 1 tin of formula per week for 6 months before moving onto solids, that's 30 tins of formula which (IMO) is manageable if you plan ahead to avoid supply issues.

          My daughter didn't like to be bottle fed (EBM and formula) at all, so it was straight from the source for her. Tough on my wife but the close mother-daughter relationship is priceless not to mention we saved money not buying formulas.

    • jacross on 23/10/2017 - 15:23
      +1

      Wet nurses aren't as fashionable these days. Childhood death also isn't as fashionable these days.

      Breast is best but sometimes things go awry. Sometimes you use both because its convenient.

  • jaimex2 on 22/10/2017 - 00:41
    +2

    Be sure to mix it up with flour to maximise profits.

    • TheRealCher on 23/10/2017 - 12:21

      I thought it was parsley???

  • vegemite2008 on 22/10/2017 - 03:03
    +1

    If someone is upset that the Chinese are buying baby formula to sell in China and the shelves are empty because of that. Why not buy it online (Coles or Woolies).

    Problem solved..

    • tik tok on 23/10/2017 - 09:57

      Oh shush. Stop talking sense here now. Will you :)

  • noshopping on 22/10/2017 - 03:38

    Open a chemist. Problem solved. ;)
    The scandal that broke out years ago resulting in the deaths of babies would of tighten up regulations big time. I don' think there's any issue, it's just fear and paranoia.

    • Ughhh on 22/10/2017 - 09:31
      +1

      tighten up regulations big time.

      Maybe on paper and in press conference. If there's money to be made under the table, some government individuals and rich fat cats will think of ways.

  • serpserpserp on 22/10/2017 - 10:04

    OP is about 2 years too late to sell baby formula online, this boomed yonks ago.

  • oztite on 22/10/2017 - 11:58
    +1

    I don't know too much about baby formula, but as an outsider, this smells fishy…

    If I were to go to the now closed down Holden and say to the management "I can promote your cars so well in China so that I can buy hundreds of thousands of Commodores at RETAIL and not wholesale price and help you export to China" they would be on their knees, and I'd probably get a medal from the Australian government… Now turn that around for baby formula, and suddenly the promoter/ exporter becomes the villain.

    A2 is not diamond. There is no physical limitation on how much formula they can produce (unlike diamond). For there to be a "chronic shortage" I think it has got to be a company wide strategy. This reminds me of the long queues outside nightclubs which are mostly empty inside; or Apple constant "sold out" of their latest phone because they again "underestimated the huge demand" for their product.

    So my question is, why is A2 not being investigated? And instead we try to blame the person that bought 1000 cans. Really? A company of that size sells out because of some private citizens buying a few hundred here and there?

    Furthermore, why the f are people so crazy about this A2 anyway? All I can see on TV is that because "it's not A1"… Wow, the WORST explanation to promote a product and yet it somehow works?! Why don't we hear "Mercedes E class - because it is not D class"!?!? No scientific proof given, just a slogan. Crazy.

    And finally, to the Chinese: you supposedly get $30 per MONTH salary in China, and yet you spend $70 buying this formula!? Is this another case of the Chinese mother working for $7/ day for Apple while her son sells his kidney to buy back the iPhone his mum assembled?

    The only winner seems to be A2 shareholders. Australian parents miss out, exporters become the villain, and Chinese consumers are ripped off. How is this still a thing? How does the government not do something about it? Oh, cause corporate always wins…

    • effgee on 23/10/2017 - 08:26
      +2

      A2 is not diamond. There is no physical limitation on how much formula they can produce

      There is; you need cows (of a specific breed in the case of A2), PLUS processing facilities. Whilst both of these can be increased in capacity, it's not like flipping a switch, they take time to grow/build. And money.

      • oztite on 23/10/2017 - 12:44

        Agree, but this shortage has been going on for years hasn't it? I dunno, I just feel a bit sceptical when a company heavily promotes itself in Asia (next tipped CEO is the current COO of Asia market), and then we get this "shortage crisis" here in Australia. If they truly care about the situation, stop all the marketing in Asia! From a business point of view, advertising without the ability to fulfill the demand is a waste of money. So I kinda think they want to create this apparent crisis. Dunno

        • Ughhh on 23/10/2017 - 12:54

          There should be plenty of stock in Chinese supermarkets and stores, but no one trust them. The ones who do buy them are ones who can't afford paying what the resellers are asking for.

          And finally, to the Chinese: you supposedly get $30 per MONTH salary in China, and yet you spend $70 buying this formula!?

          There's also a lot of very wealthy families, mainly living in the richer cities.

        • effgee on 23/10/2017 - 21:31

          Having short supply means they can charge what they want, with no capex spent to grow capacity. Plus who knows how long before the A2 hype bubble bursts ?

          Could be their strategy is make as much add you can now with no investment, and sell out just before people twig that it's no different to regular milk (which also contains A2, just not exclusively).

  • Sammyboy on 22/10/2017 - 12:00

    This is a very good documentary on the whole China fake food problem and conspiracy. At 10.10 they talk to a family where their child was affected by the melamine in the milk. Breaks your heart. Makes you think twice about just eating anywhere without recommendation in China
    http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2014/08/food-tho…
    If I lived in China, I would also be ordering milk powder and other items from overseas too.

  • jjno41 on 22/10/2017 - 13:09

    Im sorry but this is a really scummy thing to do. There is a shortage of milk and its very stressfull for a new parent to have to run around just to get formula all because someone is hoping to make a couple of bucks per tin. Try to start a business that wont make other peoples lives a misery- especially if you are only aspiring to make $40 a day profit for all that effort.

  • djmm on 22/10/2017 - 14:00

    Damn OP, 40 80 dollars for so much hassle. perhaps get a better job?

    Not to mention it turns you into one of those dicks who create shortage for milk powder to those who actually need them.

  • [Deactivated] on 22/10/2017 - 14:24
    -2

    Unless you're ethnic Chinese with an associated dog-eat-dog mentality then this enterprise will fail.
    I'm sorry - i don't write the rules, i just interpret them.

  • [Deactivated] on 22/10/2017 - 14:25

    What's the particular type of formula they want in China?
    When I go to the supermarket at both Coles and Woolies there's plenty of formula on the shelves.

    I've seen the video of the Asians scrambling for scraps out of the caged baby formula but what's different about the popular one?

  • dufflover on 22/10/2017 - 14:49

    Guess OP is poor to do the other pathetic Aussie past time money spinner of buying up property.

    Better that than being part cleaning out supermarkets of baby formula though.

  • greencomet on 22/10/2017 - 16:00
    +5

    I deal with at least 4-5 people per shift at Woolies asking for 4 cans of baby formula. Our store stopped keeping it on the shelf as we were dealing with very high amounts of theft, so now it's kept in the storeroom in a couple cages. At first I used to get it for people when they asked, but lately I have just stopped and now I just tell them we don't have any. This was after I had a customer a couple months back who desperately needed a can of (insert brand) formula for their kid. The guy had been to 5 different supermarkets locally and couldn't find anything, he was on the verge of crying and I felt horrible knowing I gave our last 4 cans to some asian guy about an hour earlier.

    Now I just read the situation, if it's a parent doing their shopping with a kid and they're asking for a can or two, no problem. If it's a customer on their phone, with an empty basket asking for 4 cans (the maximum we can give per customer) I just say we don't have any, or I pretend to look out the back and say "We're out". I couldn't care less if it upsets them.

    • yannyrjl on 22/10/2017 - 16:14
      +7

      just because the guy is Asian you automatically assume he's doing this as well? Isn't that racial profiling? I suppose you are happy with profiling of Aboriginal people or people from the Middle East as well?

      • greencomet on 22/10/2017 - 16:18
        +7

        Get over yourself.

        When a guy isn't doing any other shopping and standing there flicking through pictures of different baby formulas on his phone, then asking which of them you have in stock "I want 4 cans", it's pretty safe to assume what he's doing. I can't help it if 99% of the people I deal with doing this just happen to be Chinese.

        • bobbified on 22/10/2017 - 16:39
          +3

          flicking through pictures of different baby formulas

          They're obviously pictures of the formulas that his baby are not allergic to… :p

        • yannyrjl on 22/10/2017 - 21:00

          I don't disagree, so the same argument is true for Terrorists? Don't see many Chinese buddist blowing up buildings do you?

      • [Deactivated] on 22/10/2017 - 16:27

        That's not what they said.
        They referred to a particular situation, and then what factors they use to make the assessment.
        You need to read the Ingrish more carefully.

        However, having said that, i think your suggestion is worth considering, not least as the vast majority that engage in this practice are ethnic Chinese. Thank you for your proposal.

        Confucius say: A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

      • Lil B on 22/10/2017 - 16:33

        Isn't that racial profiling?

        Get out of here with your 'Racial' claims; It's the truth.

        You know damn well that they are buying these products at a discounted price and re-selling it to their home-country and making bank.

        • jacross on 23/10/2017 - 15:28
          +1

          Discounted price? Damn I've been missing those coupon specials then…

        • dufflover on 23/10/2017 - 22:38

          Hear hear!
          I'm Chinese and likely to get caught up in that sort of thing, but I wouldn't blame them one bit for initially assuming I'm just some guy out to selfishly buy up formula to ship offshore.
          I'd prob do the same as that chick recording all those mainlanders buying up all the formula at Coles too.

          They can try swearing at me but I wouldn't understand to know anyway, don't know mandarin lol

        • [Deactivated] on 25/10/2017 - 15:00

          @dufflover:

          Here's one!

    • drfuzzy on 22/10/2017 - 16:22
      +8

      It's really good of you to help Woolworths by rewriting their store policies for them.

      • Lil B on 22/10/2017 - 16:36

        Agreed.

        Unfortunately these major companies like Woolworths, Coles etc — All they care is about the $ at the end of the day, and sales.

        I honestly don't see this changing anytime soon.

    • ronnknee on 22/10/2017 - 16:28

      Are you the store manager or just a wannabe?

    • [Deactivated] on 22/10/2017 - 16:33
      -2

      BTW lot of Chinese students on here, most of whom bat for the Chinese Communist Party.

      But we're onto them.

      I preferred the guys that remained after the Tiananmen Square massacre…

      • Lil B on 22/10/2017 - 16:40

        I preferred the guys that remained after the Tiananmen Square massacre…

        No doubt.

        Speaking of Chinese Students, I can tell you right now that there is a very big percentage of these Chinese 'Students' coming into Australia on Student Visa's and working Illegally.

        This Government is weak.

    • bobbified on 22/10/2017 - 16:40
      +2

      The store has set a policy. It's your job to follow that policy without adding your own two cents to it.

    • wozz on 23/10/2017 - 08:36

      plus voted.

    • MessyG on 23/10/2017 - 08:56

      Also plus voted. Thankyou for having a heart.

    • [Deactivated] on 23/10/2017 - 13:26

      Capitalism as done by developed countries = good and should be applauded.
      Capitalism as done by devloping countries = unethical theft.

    • jacross on 23/10/2017 - 15:25

      Four cans ain't even that much. I'd buy four cans. I'm not about going to the supermarket regularly.

      Of course there was always an abundance of stock anyway so…

    • jacross on 23/10/2017 - 15:27
      +2

      I can't help but think that you may incorrectly read the situation when my wife (born in Australia but with Filipino parents) goes in to the supermarket to get formula for my children.

      Are your actions store policy? What store do you work for? What is your name? What is your managers name and phone number?

  • drfuzzy on 22/10/2017 - 16:19
    +6

    If you want to improve your position and "have a few bills taken care of" I suggest the first thing to do is to stop watching rubbish like ACA.

  • tissue on 22/10/2017 - 17:34

    This thread is very disappointing. What is happening with formula is the real world equivalent of doing a broden on a deal. I wonder how some here would act if it was something they were after.

    For what it's worth I was one of those parents and just ended up wasting a small fortune trying 10 other brands so that some scumbag could make a pittance by inconveniencing lots of parents. And yes when I did find my formula after driving to the other side of town I did stock up as has been suggested, which helps to contribute to the problem.

    • jacross on 23/10/2017 - 15:31
      +1

      I've been in that position where it was something I was after. My reaction was that I was slightly disappointed. How did I act? I moved on with stoic resilience, because I am an adult.

  • djmm on 22/10/2017 - 18:35
    +1

    I think the popular one is A2, which you can buy directly from their website?

  • Dont Care on 22/10/2017 - 19:54

    there is plenty of formula available in our shops. there is heavy demand for one particular brand, that is about it. I can't believe three pages of crying over spilt milk. Of greater concern are the hordes of chinese coming and buying all the property in the country.

    • TheRealCher on 22/10/2017 - 20:41

      The milk has not been spilt yet… Please do not create further problems for international relations…. :)

    • MessyG on 23/10/2017 - 08:57
      +1

      Oh I addressed the Asian property argument in another post on this thread - the response was enlightening, you should read it.

  • anthony1106 on 22/10/2017 - 19:55

    they are selling on wechat (whatsapp+facebook+twitter+tinder+paypal)
    and you need to have heaps of chinese contacts

  • DingoBilly on 22/10/2017 - 20:25

    You don't have to sell baby formulae, you just want to take advantage of the situation.

    I'd probably suggest it's much easier to organise other aspects of your life rather than getting into this to save or make money… given how long it's been going on I doubt there's much profit to be had especially given the amount of work you'd need to put in to set things up.

  • ozzyoi on 22/10/2017 - 20:37

    Is there no good formula milk in China? ?

  • bigboy69 on 22/10/2017 - 21:45
    +1

    hi
    i got some advice for you, just use auexpress to ship back home. i usually hit up my pals and we raid the coles and woolies baby section, i usually can get about 50 tins a day, 100 tins on a good day. we also hit up the swisse vitamins at chemist warehouse. i average about 3k a week if your dedicated
    hope this helps

    • tik tok on 23/10/2017 - 10:04

      Where do you advertise for it ? How do you get your customers? Is it just personal network ? Or ?

  • CalmLemons on 22/10/2017 - 22:01

    ANYWAY it's funny the news posts all these articles about baby formula shortage. It's the baby formula companies that don't want to sell to australia - they express freight the formula at wholesale twice the price of what they sell for here. If i can dig up the photos in my phone, I was at the airport, the cargo staff loaded about 20 mega pallets (the pallets they load onto planes) onto a jumbo. Why would companies like karicare or a2 want to give all of their stock to australia where we all whine and whinge when they can ship the other 95% of their stock to china where people will pay double or triple the price compared with here. Then some mother here whinges that there is a black dot in the formula and that goes on today tonight or aca.

    • dufflover on 22/10/2017 - 22:15

      If they want to only leave 5% behind that's fine … problem is 4 of that 5% just ends up going offshore too thanks to these people.

      Could easily be something you want/like/love too; in fact you already see it in things like the price of Aussie steak and seafood.

      • CalmLemons on 22/10/2017 - 22:28
        -2

        I always thought breast milk was meant to be promoted anyway.

        Well put it this way - we don't have the population/domestic market here to really support ANYTHING. Shown via the collapse of the entire manufacturing industry. All we seem good for is for supplying south east asia.

        every blue collar labourer seems to be wanting to be paid upwards of $30/h most are at a minimum of $22/h, many getting paid $40-50/h. Talk to any business in manufacturing and you'll see this problem being ignored and only acknowledged till the day the factory closes.

        A bit off topic but lesson is we don't have the 350m population of america or 2b population of china to support a bunch of whiners and whingers in manufacturing. complain enough the rest of the world will eventually buy from elsewhere. let the liquid gold roll?

        • dufflover on 23/10/2017 - 10:35

          I agree local wages are too high to be sustainable in a "global market" in terms of competing with cheap imports, and that we should be reducing the cost of living rather than increasing wages per se (obviously perceptually and politically it's an impossible sell).

          You have the right point, we are nothing, but the focus on the wrong aspect. Because we are "nothing", other countries could literally buy up everything we produce and look what's happened. This is not about local cars competing with cheap imports or $1 posted Gearbest deals; this is ridiculous case where your own country produces beef, milk powder, gas, heck even our land, whatever, and locals get priced out because companies are only in it for the dollar. And with threads like this it's not only companies but import students and money spinners at the people level too with whatever small pittance companies have left local customers.

          You don't have to have kids (I don't) to see how this is not good.

        • [Deactivated] on 23/10/2017 - 16:10
          +1

          @dufflover: The developing world has been doing this to developing countries for decades. Just because we control the narrative now, developing countries have been vilified.

          Ever wonder what we do to the price of medication and medical research into lifestyle diseases instead of antibiotics and neglected diseases that plague the developing world.

          Its pretty much impossible to reduce the cost of living because the main factor driving them in the first place is local wages.

          Companies are pretty much profit driven and that is the reason you have fast computers, phones and tablets. Cheap clothes, allergy and cancer medication, safer cars etc.

          A lot of this "pricing out" frustration stems from our superiority complex as a developed country. People get priced out by the developed world EVERYWHERE, just because it happens on such a visible scale and from a culture that is quite different from ours we're indignant and such. Ooo, the scary CCP is trying to take over this side of the world, I'm so afraid of being unable to vote (like that makes a difference), I don't want them to control my breeding and I don't want to be forced to eat dog.

          We have been shielded from reality so much god-forbid that we can't stomach a slight taste of it.

          This is a wake up call. If the Chinese under their shitty government and "inferior" cultural practices can even price us out of milk powder, we'd better start working harder to beat them at their own game.

  • cloudzhou on 22/10/2017 - 23:12
    +2

    People in China is willing to pay $60 for a A2 stage 3 formula. Excluding shipping cost, it's still 70% profit. It's a free market, who pays more is getting the products.This is how capitalism works. That's like people is paying &200 for a mini Nes and people will pay $2000 for an Iphone X on day one. There is no moral judgement here.

    • crowsnest bomber on 22/10/2017 - 23:38

      U just don't get it do you mate? Ignorance is bliss sometimes.
      The reason A2 is so popular is it's really good on the bubs stomach. My lil guy had a lot of issues with other brands.. so what your telling me is to suck it up, deal with a crying baby with constipation all because the Chinese are willing to pay more?

      • CalmLemons on 23/10/2017 - 00:11

        He won't get it.

        Most people also don't get that formula milk is for cows - we could also go into reasons why breastfeeding is on the downhill but that is a whole other can of worms.

        To help you though, BigW has most of the stock, pallets of it - especially city ones. Otherwise just buy it online - like the same internet that ozbargain is hosted on :P

      • AussieX on 23/10/2017 - 03:19

        You can buy directly from A2 online.

        • crowsnest bomber on 23/10/2017 - 11:25
          +1

          Thanks AussieX. We don't need it anymore and it wasn't available online when we did, but this is fantastic for other parents who need it

      • jacross on 23/10/2017 - 15:34

        A2 is a scam. It's marketing. You got swindled. I got swindled on heaps of things and issues when I was parenting a newborn too. It's very easy to happen because you are dealing with a whole bunch of confounding variables at the same time and they are all completely new things that you have no experience with.

        Now in the light of day poke your head above the fog of war and realise that you (and I) are entirely unreliable analysts.

        • DavidFong on 23/10/2017 - 22:55

          Without commenting on any particular milk formula company, with an alphabet-number name combination or otherwise, it perhaps would be useful to point out that the milk formula companies for decades, in both the Western World and in China, have all the morality and marketing ethics of soft-drink companies.

          Walk into the milk formula section of a Chinese supermarket, and there is relentless promotion of milk (with free Disney child toys, just like McDonalds and sugary breakfast cereal producers used to do in Australia) as the pivotal basis of a child's health, strength and intelligence, not just in the first year of life, but for the next few years after that. Note that WHO recommends that children drink 'normal' milk after 12 months of age, not formula milk. (note that the above-mentioned 'stage 3' formula is targeted at children above the age of 12 months)

          However, I don't think what happens in China is particularly 'Chinese' milk company behaviour. Western milk companies try their darndest to do the same thing.

          Even reputable Western brands (a brand with a Swiss-sounding name, and also well-known for chocolate) have knowingly pushed milk formula onto impoverished communities who do not have ability to provide clean water to reconstitute the powder.

          Western milk-formula companies in China award sales/'free sample' commissions to newborn nursery nurses and doctors. Of course, no Chinese milk company would have been found guilty of doing such a thing, because Chinese milk formula companies are as pure as the driven snow.

          Milk formula marketing preys on the parents at a vulnerable time across the entire world. The perceived shortcoming of the ethics of the 'daigou' purchasers of Australian milk powder pales in comparison to the dubious marketing practices and moral blackmail of the milk formula companies themselves.

  • centrelink on 22/10/2017 - 23:50

    Here's what I heard from my wife. You find an agent here that alredy have connections in China and then you find the people who want them. Then you don't need to be those people who take all the stock. I believe the warehouse behind our one does that business

  • buwa99 on 22/10/2017 - 23:53
    +1

    If you are looking at ACA for business opportunities I think you have bigger problems.

  • TALLBALLER on 23/10/2017 - 03:04

    AAAHH why use formula why not breast milk
    change diet to a more original or lactating one and cut out factory crap if need be
    go on flam me
    source one of 6 siblings not much formula used really

    • MessyG on 23/10/2017 - 08:58

      What happens if the mother has had her breasts removed because of breast cancer? Just let the baby starve?

    • [Deactivated] on 23/10/2017 - 14:51

      I am not going to flam you.

      But i will say your level of ignorance is impressive. Some women have difficulty breastfeeding for a whole raft of reasons. You seem completely unaware of this.

      You reference one data point (your mother). You should detach yourself and get out of the house more often…

      • [Deactivated] on 23/10/2017 - 17:22

        How about sourcing breast milk from another human being? Rather than from the breast of a cow?

        • MessyG on 23/10/2017 - 20:35
          +1

          Difficult. You only make enough to feed one (i.e. yours). There are breast milk banks but these are in short supply and are in use for critically unwell/premmie babies in hospital. The supplier needs to be screened and disease free. It's a rare resource like blood. It would be great if we didn't need formula at all but we do if we want to enjoy the low neonatality mortality rate we now have. Human breastmilk is by far the superior source of immunity proteins and it's rare that a mother wouldn't opt for that in this country (other countries are a bit different due to education levels and formula marketing).

  • AussieX on 23/10/2017 - 03:12

    @AussieB,
    To put it simply, what they are selling along with the formula or vitamin is "trust".

    If you can imagine going into a Coles/Woolworths equivalent in China and still have doubts on whether the products on the shelf are authentic. Then it's easier to understand why some parents, who have friends or relatives in Australia, would ask their friends or relatives to buy the formulas in Australia for their babies on their behalf.
    Because of the trust, they usually send money to their friend/relative in Australia upfront, then the friend go and purchase products and send them over to China for them. So no listing on ebay.

    I don't know whether you have kids, but my 10-month-old girl just went on formula last month, and she is finishing about 1 can every 10 days, i.e. 3 cans per month. So, in theory, a 6-12 months old baby would need 18 cans at least. Given the current infant formula shortage, most of them would stock up their requirements if they can, meaning paying for 18 cans upfront so their friend can keep buying for them.

    So, assuming these are the non-commercial friend/relative in Australia, each one of those buying the 4 cans at a time represents some trusting friend in China who wants their baby to have "real baby formula" not something that's going to kill their baby.

    But in reality, when they can get a good margin on the sale ($5+/can), they would try to expand it by setting up online stores on taobao(Alibaba), WeChat or Tmall, and it grows through words of mouth. Again, money is received upfront before purchasing anything to send over to China.

    Then there are the "Chinese souvenir shops" with all the popular products (formula especially) normally supplied through wholesale channels, and then either direct sell to China, or onsell to the "Daigou" in Australia to send over to China. But in the current conditions of critical shortage on certain formulas, the shops 1. increase prices substantially ($10+/can), 2.compete with the individuals at Coles/Woolworths in an organized way.

    If you are after $2 per can, there is opportunity locally. Just find those Chinese who are doing this already, get them to give you money first, then buy and supply to them. Or chat with those lined up for the formula to see if they are willing to pay you $10 for taking 4 cans through the checkout for them, and so on…
    But don't expect this to be easy money though, because if you go and visit a few coles/woolworths stores, you would probably find the same products are out of stock at every location. So you would be extremely lucky to find 20 cans of the right variety in a whole week if you do not have some sort of "edge" over the others.

    Hope this clears some of your questions…

  • alz on 23/10/2017 - 08:26
    +2

    You gotta be kidding me. I have been unable to find Aptamil Gold+ Stage 2 for my son anywhere. Tried all supermarkets and chemists near home and work. I once went to Wolli Creek Woolies and saw a group of asians hording 4 cans of Aptamil each and do two trips to their car. This is messed up man. Someone has to put an end to this before I end up punching an asian in the head.

    • jacross on 23/10/2017 - 15:36
      -2

      Your hardship is immense. And by immense I mean the opposite of immense.

    • [Deactivated] on 24/10/2017 - 13:19

      Do yourself a favor, u can order aptamil products from their website with free postage!

  • neonlight on 23/10/2017 - 08:54
    +1

    You sound like daigou stripping away supply of milk formula many local babies and mum's need.

    It's unaustralian and we hate daigou

    I know many local Australian chinese do not approve such unethical practice.

    You also ruin the image of Chinese community. So f$#& daigou

  • Kempe on 23/10/2017 - 09:52

    Do they not sell it on alibaba.com?

  • BRYCELICIOUS on 23/10/2017 - 09:55

    Wow! It's like a r/childfree thread up in here….

    • jacross on 23/10/2017 - 15:37

      Am a parent, have no sympathy for most of the whingers.

  • dudewheresmycar on 23/10/2017 - 10:02
    +1

    Please do not do this.

    I have had to spend several hours (no exaggeration) traveling around Sydney looking for a specific formula which is the only my child could have in an emergency situation. Shops selling out between me calling and going to buy because of people doing what you propose.

    Many the same.

    The spin other commentators are putting on it is tenuous at best. It is un-Australian and immoral.

  • LJH23 on 23/10/2017 - 10:18
    +1

    People who do this are scummy AF. Go eat a bag

  • CLoSeR on 23/10/2017 - 10:57
    +1

    Don't contribute to the problem, make your money elsewhere.

  • lint on 23/10/2017 - 11:07

    I think you generally open a WeChat account, add as many contacts as you can in mainland China and then flood your feed with advertising for goods you have for sale.

  • Archieeeee on 23/10/2017 - 11:12

    Why can't the government just ban individuals to post baby formula overseas just like Kiwi?

    How simple is that!

    I never blame the people, government needs to do more to put restrictions on this.

    Those big companies are getting huge profit out of this and they are actually happy to see it happen.

    • knowskillz on 23/10/2017 - 14:17

      Well you have to see it from both sides..

      You are basically saying cut sales, so we generate less money for the Australian economy and cut jobs at the same time.

      Our farmers are already struggling let's kick them while they are down.

      You see where I'm going?

  • ahly92 on 23/10/2017 - 11:54
    +1

    I'm currently in the process of doing the opposite. I've had enough of this and seen the struggle close onse have gone to get the formula for there little onse.

    I Have a few friends working in multiple woolies and coles and will set aside for me overall a large quantity. I WILL THEN set up a service to SELL at COST PRICE to Aussies so their little onse can sleep at peace.

    Wish me luck :)

    • alz on 23/10/2017 - 15:02

      Hook me up man please?

  • AlienC on 23/10/2017 - 11:56

    When I was a baby I never drank the baby formula only the good stuff and well guess what look at me now.

    • CLoSeR on 23/10/2017 - 12:12

      Part of the problem is that women in China think formula is better than the real stuff.

    • outlander on 23/10/2017 - 14:49

      You saying you wish you had been given formula as a baby? :P

      • AlienC on 24/10/2017 - 07:34

        Haha maybe I don't know I was part lying because I honestly can't remember back that far lol :p I think I did or maybe didn't I don't know :s

        • outlander on 24/10/2017 - 12:02

          Lol I'm just joshing you man. Whenever someone says "I did x and look at me" as evidence something works well it can always be interpreted at least two ways. I never drank formula as a kid either. But seeing as how we both admitted to going to rubbish in a previous thread, I don't think either of us are beacons of success. But you never know, games not over yet

        • AlienC on 25/10/2017 - 16:32

          @outlander: rofl true that all good man.. I am a proud supporter of the losing company.. I proudly raise my loser flag and wear it on my face and chest happily lol.. tis my life lol ah well :p all good man.. que sera sera.. whatever will be will be .. que sera sera.. to whatever will be..

  • jacross on 23/10/2017 - 12:05
    -1

    You're laughably late. The producers and wholesalers ramped up production a while ago to meet this market directly. ACA is just being ACA. A whole bunch of numpties in this thread taking the bait.

  • dimes on 23/10/2017 - 12:20

    This is how it was a few years ago…

    Daigous in Australia would use their Wechat (think Whatsapp) and create group chats full of locals in China. Those people would place orders and the daigous would buy accordingly.

    Word gets around and more and more people join the group chat. The key thing is reputation and trust - you couldn't just blindly start this as no one would join, it had to be word of mouth. If your name was respected then more people would join and place orders. In turn the daigou also had a degree of power - they could recommend what brands to buy and the Chinese locals would follow like sheep.

    Not too sure if they still do it like that these days. I knew this because I had a friend who did it a few years ago but she stopped because the margins weren't profitable anymore.

  • jodie1980 on 23/10/2017 - 13:09

    People in Australia won't buy them off you for more than they can in the shops. You would have to sell to China. This would harder than you think.

  • Davo1111 on 23/10/2017 - 13:09

    Do you speak Mandarin (?). I'd say that would be your first step

    I think you'll struggle to compete with the professionals, plus those who are in Australia for business regularly and fly back with a full suitcase

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