# I just lost my largest customer to China. **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 10, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-just-lost-my-largest-customer-to-china/9153 "2006-03-10T19:31:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 110
**Author:** ![eclipsed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbce88/32.png) [@eclipsed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/eclipsed)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-just-lost-my-largest-customer-to-china/9153/110 "2008-03-25T11:25:54Z")
> [@AWDrifter](#): > > Update (again)… > > Another one of our very large customers has been strange lately. > Early last year we received an order for 10,000 units. > By June they had 2000 units in inventory and told us to stop shipping. > (We could have forced them to take the units but that is seldom a good siuation to create) > The reason given was that their customers were buying Chinese units for less money. > When we asked in December when they would need more and they told us they needed 500 units like yesterday because they had none in stock! > WTF? > We shipped 500 A.S.A.P. and shipped 500 more after that. > Last week they said the economy was killing their industry. > Two days later they want us to keep shipping A.S.A.P.! > WTF?!? > I should also mention that we sell through distributors around the country so our communication is filtered through them, which isn’t always a good thing. > Businesses seem to be out of control these days. im sure you aren’t alone… the US economy has only seen this type of upheaval e few times in the last 100 years. its never good practice to jam a purchase commitment agreement down a customers throat. as you indicated, sometimes its necessary to take the high road. i actually came across something like this today myself. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-just-lost-my-largest-customer-to-china/9153)._