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Like I said.. You need someone over here to confirm the story/quality in the first place. Mr Hunt didn't just browse through Ali and thought "I need mr Hao, order a thousand wheels now!". You wanna check the quality of someone's work before start selling the stuff..
It's like the emails from a Nigerian Prince, do you just trust those as well?
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No, I'm sure given their knowledge and experience of the bike industry, the people behind Hunt didn't go on Ali Express, in the same way that no commercial enterprise would source its goods from Ali Express. I'm sure that they have sufficient knowledge of the Taiwanese bike companies to know which wheel building firm (Pro-Lite for example, who do a lot of OEM work) could provide a quality service, just in the same way that they knew that Bitex make good hubs, Kinlin make good rims and Pillar make good spokes. They may well have got a few samples before they placed orders for full-scale production but if you're in the industry you'll know who the reputable and high quality companies are beforehand anyway.
Brommers
Pretty sure no such person exists. I'd be amazed if they even open the vast majority of the boxes which get shipped in from Taiwan.
Why? What's the person over here going to know about building wheels that Mr. Hao-Cheng and his colleagues don't?