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Driving a hard bargain: Inside the cut-throat world of Hong Kong’s cross-border ‘shopping agents’

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After driving slowly into a warehouse under a freeway in Tuen Mun, Chan unloads goods from his car. Two of his colleagues manoeuvre their vehicles to the side, before loading the items into their own cars according to their delivery destination. In the process, a box of pastries falls to the ground. Chan — whose name has been changed to protect his identity — throws it in the trash, returns to the car seat and calls another colleague, asking them to tell the customer the baked goods are gone for the day. However, because not everyone had the time or the visa to cross the border southbound, shopping agents came into being. They bought goods in Hong Kong and sold them in mainland China, charging a fee on top of the retail price of the goods. Since Covid-related curbs were lifted, cross-border shopping habits have reversed. Prices tend to be cheaper in mainland China and an increasing number of mainland Chinese have moved to Hong Kong, many of whom crave products from back home. To satisfy rising demand, people like Chan have sought to make a living transferring products from megastores and chain stores in mainland China to Hong Kong. But being a shopping agent is a highly competitive, if not cut-throat, business. Then there is the question of legality. Among the reasons for the increase in popularity of cross-border shopping agents is that although goods in Shenzhen are cheaper than in Hong Kong, it is neither cost- nor time-efficient for individuals to frequently cross the border to shop. It takes around an hour to reach a boundary control point from central Hong Kong, and then more time to pass through two sets of customs. But with people like Chan to do it for them, customers can receive items ordered in the morning that same evening. The most popular one has 74, members, and across them hundreds of posts are published daily seeking or offering shopping agent services. Same-day delivery for orders placed before 10 a. This is how Chan promotes his services, too, funnelling customers into a WhatsApp group with members and new customers joining every day. People share their experiences of different products and discuss which are worth buying. Sharley Wong has been using the shopping agent services for several months, once a week on average. She shares and discusses products she has bought from Chan in his WhatsApp group. The store was also exploring offering a Hong Kong delivery service, it said, without providing further details. Since the prices of goods in Shenzhen are transparent, if an agent increases their price even slightly, customers will seek out cheaper alternatives. Consequently, agents seek to attract orders through superior service and after-sales support, or explore other methods to expand their business. Meat brought into Hong Kong is also supposed to have a health certificate issued by its place of origin or permission from the FEHD. The pair further expanded their business into locally made stew, a cross-border taxi service platform, phone cards for mainland China, and promotions for restaurants in Shenzhen. Though they said they had not calculated specific profit data, both Lee and Lam said footfall had increased more than 50 per cent compared with before they opened the shopping agency business. In addition, they had more than 3, members in customer WhatsApp groups. In those groups, Lee and Lam frequently update information about the products they have purchased from the mainland and the meat on sale at their frozen meat store. Some items, such as a hair removal device, spark particular interest for their cheapness compared to Hong Kong stores. When Chan paused his business, many of his clients asked why he had stopped and when he would restart. It gave him the impetus to give it another go in mid-April. Chan sought to diversify, and, in May, expanded to offer clients cheesecakes and flowers. He also plans to add clothing. Now, he can complete around 20 orders at a time when he goes shopping in Shenzhen. Chan said these added categories increased profit. Cheesecakes do not need too much time to purchase, and the store manager had begun setting cakes aside or notifying Chan when he should pick them up. But the real money was in bringing packaged bouquets from Shenzhen to Hong Kong. Chan tries to keep the cost as low as possible by cooperating with florists in mainland China. Unlike with other products, he only posted photos of flowers in his WhatsApp groups. He planned to visit the wholesale market soon to reach a deal with the shop owner, and was eager to get the business on a website he had made as quickly as possible. Though the T-shirts were not ready for sale, he added a blank product category specially for them online. Original reporting on HKFP is backed by our monthly contributors. Almost 1, monthly donors make HKFP possible. Three reasons to join us:. 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