They only want a quantity. Face which grade the original faces, then write one openable quantity.
- The quotation lesson is How to write a quotation. It wants a quantity. It does not prove a store-wide 500 produces a specification, and it does not lock lead time.
- How to start selling writes reply soon as an interaction tip. It does not prove you must paste the showcase MOQ into this thread the same day. The response lesson is Inquiry Quick Response Rate. The lesson is whether someone clicked send in 24 hours. It does not prove one number finishes the thread.
A German buyer’s on-site original at 16:22 Thursday: “What is your MOQ. Send MOQ only. Do not send a 25 day lead time. I did not lock 28cm.” Sales had already asked 28cm or 26cm, brushed or polish. Both cells came back empty. Sales sent the three rows hanging on this shop’s own showcase — 500 pcs, 25 days, USD 2.40 — in one reply. Those three numbers are what the shop typed into the display tile. They are not a platform MOQ and not an official price. WhatsApp: “I asked MOQ. You locked 25 days and 2.40. That traps the order.” Finance wrote “500 / 25 days / 2.40 already in the inquiry” into this ticket’s cost sheet. Margin and lead time locked on one ungraded quantity.
Operations wanted a number first so the talk would feel easy. The owner wanted a lower number added so they would not walk. Membership wired to ALIBABA.COM HONG KONG LIMITED does not fill empty spec cells, and it does not buy an official MOQ library. Corpable Marketing Limited is not the quotation desk. We cannot reply the quantity.
They only write cheapest: price only, no spec. Grade already accepted and they only fight days: lead-time promise. They only want a Word: PI template. Two rounds still quantity-only: inquiries without orders. Below: this Message Center thread only wants MOQ, and spec and lead time are still empty.
Whether the original only wants a quantity, or already accepted a grade
Open My Alibaba → Message Center and this thread. Do not open the blast box. Do not open the “standard MOQ table.” Mark each sentence as quantity-only or a grade already accepted. What is your MOQ, send MOQ only, just the quantity: quantity-only. 28cm 5000, this PO 2000, MOQ for brushed 28cm colander: grade already carried. Extra quantity-only sentences still fill no spec cell. Three messages the same day — What is your MOQ, MOQ please, just number — still read as one quantity-only ask. Three sentences together fill no diameter.
Read the detail top to bottom: linked product, full original, the quantity sentence you already sent, read or unread. Linked 28cm colander and the original writes I did not lock 28cm: write “link not accepted.” Link not accepted: the 28cm in the title is not an accepted grade. You already sent 25 days and 2.40: write “three rows bound,” then the later pull-back. Do not add a lower number. Read only proves they opened it. Opened and they still write send MOQ: treat as unlocked. The store lead must not treat read as a close signal.
The quotation lesson is PX5Z53Q4. It writes a quotation should carry quantity. It does not prove dumping 500 first will produce a specification. How-to-sell’s reply-soon is asking which grade, not packing three showcase rows faster. A green response cell only proves send was clicked. Source writes the search word colander and the original did not accept a diameter: write “search word not accepted.” Sales remembering “they were looking at 28cm”: treat as not accepted. Not accepted: ask the grade first. The ask returns to this thread, not a welcome note.
Staple into this ticket’s clip: the original, the quantity sentence you last sent, the three-to-five empty spec cells. The three sheets do not face: do not send a new number. WhatsApp writes I did not lock 28cm: face the empty cells. Do not change the showcase MOQ first. The canned “MOQ 500, 25 days, see showcase price” must not be clicked into this thread. That canned sentence binds three rows. The store lead parks it on quantity-only threads.
A voice note asking for a number: transcribe it onto this thread, then reply. Not transcribed: treat as not asked. Transcribed and still send MOQ only: ask the grade first. Warmth in a voice note fills no diameter cell. Night shift on a quantity-only follow-up: face the grade the day shift stapled. Empty clip: night shift may only ask the grade. It may not send the showcase 500. Sent: treat as an ungraded number. An ungraded number will enter the cost sheet in the morning. Entered and then changed: margin empties from the night sentence. The handover line writes whether night shift sent a number, and whether that number carried a grade.
Sales copied the original into the decoration group and asked “is the MOQ that showcase 500.” The decoration group is not Message Center. The group replies 500 and this thread does not: treat as not replied. The group replies 300 and this thread writes 500: two numbers. Later orders bite the lower set. Close the group. Split this original first. The original is there: a grade can face. The original is not there: stop the number.
Which specification grade this MOQ faces
A quantity must sit on one grade. 28cm brushed colander is one grade. 26cm polish is another. Any-size 500 is ungraded. An ungraded quantity is later treated as the store-wide lowest. Margin empties from that sentence. The floor names in writing which SKU, which surface, which diameter can open this week. Sales may only reply that grade’s quantity. A neighbour ticket’s number must not be pasted here. Pasted: treat as the wrong grade.
Colour, food contact, colour box or white box: each is a grade. They have not accepted one: the quantity must not write any color 500. Any color is ungraded. Ungraded 500 is later treated as the all-colour lowest. The floor often cannot open all-colour lowest. Changed later: a second ungraded set. Sales must not paste a white-box quantity into a colour-box sentence. Merchandising writes packing into this thread’s ask, one sentence, not three questions over three days that look like delay.
A Hong Kong invoice English name is not a specification. The specification is the freeze sentence. An origin sentence can sit on another line. It fills no diameter cell. Two paid samples in the sample policy are not the bulk MOQ. They only asked MOQ: ask sample or bulk first. Mixed 2 / 500 empties the later order clip. Trial and bulk are two quantity grades. Mixed into one sentence: lead time and unit price get dragged into the lock. Warehouse stock and a new line are two grades too. A warehouse count must not be written as the line MOQ. Written as the line: the floor cannot open that count, sales changes the number, a second set again.
They did not ask food contact: do not volunteer an FDA / LFGB MOQ. Volunteered: later treated as already locked into that grade’s certificate and price. Which file the certificate cell faces is the company-profile note. Here the question is which grade the quantity faces. No food contact in the grade: the quantity sentence does not carry a cert. Carried: a grade you thickened alone. A thickened grade the floor often cannot open.
Stop: treating the 28cm in the showcase title as accepted; writing a sample count as bulk MOQ; sending any-size 500; volunteering a certificate into the quantity sentence. One of the four: pull the quantity sentence back first.
Send the quantity; leave lead time off it
Quantity locks how many pieces this grade can open. Lead time locks days on this line. Two cells, two switches. They only asked MOQ: leave lead time empty or write pending grade and line. Their original Do not send a 25 day lead time is refusing that bind. The 25 days hanging on the showcase is what the shop typed into the display tile. It is not a day count this thread can lock, and it is not an official lead time.
How a day sentence survives later is lead-time promise. Here the first rule is: do not paste showcase 25 days into a quantity-only reply. How-to-sell does not audit your lead-time cell. Merchandising guards this cell. Sales must not add days to look complete. Finance must not write an “unquoted lead-time activation fee” into the unit price. There is no such row.
A sample lead time is not bulk. A neighbour 15 days is not this grade. Days follow the grade. Grade empty: days stay out. If the floor has already written a holiday stop, the quantity sentence must not hint “we can open 500 this week.” What can open is a grade, not a calendar. The calendar sentence sits elsewhere or stays empty. How many holiday days: only what the floor wrote, written back onto this thread. They put MOQ and ship in 15 days in one sentence: still split. Quantity may return with a grade. Fifteen days: face whether the line is locked. Line unlocked: reply pending line. Do not paste 15 to look complete. Pasted: treat lead time as locked.
25 days already out: the next sentence may only pull it back or rewrite it as pending grade. It may not add a shorter day count to round it. A shorter count is a second lead-time set. Trade Assurance later bites the shorter set. Merchandising marks which set is dead. Unmarked: the floor schedules the shorter set. This note does not invent how many days a schedule takes. It only asks that the sheet and this thread face. A green response cell is not “lead time already answered.” Green is someone clicked send. That someone may have bound 25 days to 500. Bound: pull it back, then the next sentence. The pull-back returns to the original thread. “That sentence does not count” said only in an internal group does not count.
Do not lock unit price with the MOQ either
Quantity locks pieces. Unit price locks a number on this grade at this step. A quantity-only original fills no price. Price stays empty or writes price after grade. Showcase USD 2.40 is a bad-example number the shop typed into the display tile. It is not an official price, and it is not a graded price this thread has accepted. Pasted into a quantity-only reply: they will treat it as the reported lowest. Margin empties from the 2.40 sentence.
The haggle page is cheapest. Here is quantity only. Both forbid ungraded numbers. The quotation lesson does not lock a must-quote-price-before-grade. Finance guards price. Sales must not drop 2.40 into the quantity sentence for “sincerity.” Sincerity fills no grade. An ungraded price is the reported lowest.
Step prices, if written, must carry the same grade on every step. Three ungraded steps are three ungraded lows. They later bite the high-step price and take the low-step quantity. The step table returns to this thread. It must not live only in Excel. Currency follows this thread’s invoice letterhead. A Hong Kong invoice writes USD or HKD as they asked. Do not change currency to look cheaper without writing a rate. Rate empty: write the currency, not a converted fake low. This note invents neither a rate nor a margin rate.
2.40 already out: the next sentence may only pull it back or rewrite it as price after grade. It may not drop further. A drop is a second ungraded price. Later orders bite the lower set. Finance marks this cost-sheet row pending-void before the next letter. Unmarked: the floor prepares material at 2.40. Margin empties from the prep. This note does not invent a prep quantity. It only asks that the sheet and this thread face. In the clip, 2.40 is labelled “showcase display, self-typed, already sent, pending void.” It is not labelled “official price.”
The showcase 500 cannot be copied into this thread
Open My Alibaba → Showcase management and read the MOQ on tile one or on this SKU’s cell. It often writes 500. That 500 is a number you typed into a display tile to hold a slot. It is not a platform MOQ, and it is not an openable grade on this thread. How-to-sell writes showcases as display. That page does not audit this thread’s quantity. Changing a showcase fills no empty cell here. Empty: ask the grade first.
Operations faces the showcase cell. Sales faces this thread. The store lead checks the two people did not merge them into “our MOQ is 500.” Merged: treat as a store-wide ungraded table. A store-wide ungraded table is exactly what they are testing. Test passed: every later letter bites 500.
Showcase 500 and this thread’s openable number do not face: write this thread’s grade. Do not change the showcase to match. Changing a showcase is the quota page. It is not this original’s clip. Tile one still a lobby photo: the storefront-first note swaps the slot. Do not paste the hall tile’s 500 into a colander thread. Wrong tile, emptier grade.
Canned library, listing quantity field, 500 on an old PI: none of them answer this thread. The three disagree: this original and the floor’s writing govern. The posting lesson only proves the listing field exists. It does not prove the number in that field is this thread’s openable grade. Thursday someone changed showcase 500 to 300 “so the talk would feel easy,” and this thread still had no grade. Changing the showcase fills no empty cell here and adds a second store-wide display number. Change the display and other threads get bitten too. Leave the showcase cell. Ask the grade on this thread first.
They want a lower number: face whether the grade is locked
Grade unlocked: do not add a lower number. A lower add is a second ungraded set. Two ungraded sets: later orders bite the lower set. Grade locked and they still only want a number: you may send this grade’s openable quantity. Unit price and lead time still stay unbound. Locked, still quantity-only, and they start haggling only this number: move to the quote close on inquiries without orders. This note does not invent how low you must go.
They switch to 28cm and instantly want a lower number: rewrite the quantity on the new grade and void the old 26cm number on this thread. Not voided: two sets in the clip. Merchandising marks which set is dead. If ads bought a “low MOQ” word on this SKU, stop the word, then reply here. Word and thread do not face: they will cut the quantity with the ad sentence.
Ungraded 500 already out: the next sentence may only pull it back or rewrite it with a grade. It may not drop to a lower ungraded number. Sales must not keep adding numbers because “they will walk.” Finance must not write an “unclosed-deal activation fee.” The owner must not demand a lower ungraded number every day. Changing the number is not locking a grade.
They write MOQ as 1 pc to test. The floor cannot open 1 in writing: send this grade’s openable number. Do not send 1 so they will not walk. Sent 1: treat as a locked sample grade. Sample grades follow the sample page. This thread still bulk quantity-only: 1 does not enter the bulk cell. They did not ask mixed colour or mixed size: do not volunteer mix MOQ. Volunteered mix: the floor often cannot open it. Mix, if written, needs a floor-written recipe. They want “a number lower than the showcase” and still will not accept a grade: reply MOQ depends on 28cm brushed or 26cm polish, I will not send a lower ungraded number. That sentence is more useful than adding 300. 300 has no grade. It is as empty as 500.
Where the floor writes the grade it can open
On this thread — not only in a floor WeChat group. The floor names in writing: SKU, surface, diameter, line number, openable pieces on this grade. Merchandising copies the five rows onto this Message Center thread, or staples them into the clip and writes “grade in clip” here. A spoken “should be able to open 300” that lives only in the group is empty later in the order clip. Should is not the original.
The same grade can carry two quantities on two lines. Brushed and polish are not one line. Night and day shifts with different capacity: write which shift. Sales must not write “the plant can do all of it” or “we can open anytime.” Anytime fills no shift cell. Shift empty: lead time must not bind into the quantity sentence. Outside polish, in-house brushed: two lines. Merged into one: a later visit empties.
Finance must not merge two lines’ lowest numbers into one number. Merged: wrong line. A wrong-line number will not face lead time later. Tooling or a line-open fee, if needed, is its own row facing this grade. Do not bury it inside the MOQ. Hidden: treat quantity as facing empty. Sales must not say “tooling free” off-site. Not written back: not said.
A new salesperson reads the five rows in the clip, then speaks. No five rows: the mouth may only ask the grade, not send the showcase 500. Sent: treat as an ungraded number already out, then pull it back onto this thread. Not written back: empty clip. An empty handover will bind margin and lead time again on the next letter. The floor writes “28cm brushed can open this week, piece count pending schedule”: the quantity sentence writes this grade can open, quantity pending line schedule. Do not fill the gap with showcase 500. Pending schedule is not 500. 500 is the bad example on the display tile.
The reply goes on the original message-centre thread
The quantity sentence must return to My Alibaba → Message Center and this thread. A WhatsApp spoken number not written back: not replied. Written back still carries a grade or asks the grade first. Off-site may book a time. Grade and number still return here. Trade Assurance later reads this thread. A cheaper number on WeChat is two numbers in the clip. Two numbers empty Complaint Center later.
How-to-sell writes reply soon. Soon is the owner on the original thread, not every sub-account sending a welcome, and not a second “quotation only” thread. They wrote send MOQ only on the old thread. A new thread is two numbers. Do not change the subject. A changed subject looks new. A green response cell only proves send was clicked. Green and they still only want an ungraded number: face the empty cells. Do not click a lower number.
A sub-account replied 500 sent and the main account opens this thread with no sentence: treat as missing. Send the same sentence from this thread. A spoken “300” that lives only on WeChat is empty later in the order clip. The main account exports the quantity to Excel and WeChats it to the new hire. Excel is not a thread. The new hire opens a new chat from the sheet: they receive a third line. Write it on the original thread.
They put just MOQ and send PI in one sentence: split. Quantity follows this note. The template follows PI template. Merged into one ungraded-500 Word: margin and specification lock together. Split, write back here. Do not rush. They send MOQ on personal WeChat and chase on-site: the on-site thread governs. Two places, two numbers: merchandising faces both the same day. If the welcome library auto-replies “MOQ 500, 25 days” store-wide, turn that auto-reply off on this thread first. An auto-reply counts as someone sending. The response lesson may go green. Green is the wrong sentence. Wrong sentence off, then a human asks the grade.
Two rounds still quantity-only: stop adding a lower number
Two grade-asks and they still write send MOQ: stop adding a lower number. Stop binding lead time and unit price. Move to the quote close on the stop-loss page. This note does not invent how many rounds you must ask — two is the stop this desk can hold this week, not a platform rule. A third ungraded number only cuts margin again.
The store lead calls stop. Sales must not keep adding numbers because “they will walk.” Finance must not write an “unclosed-deal activation fee.” The owner must not demand a lower ungraded number every day. The ads account must not add budget for this thread. Added budget does not fill a grade. Night handover writes “sent 500, they want lower”: day shift faces whether the grade is locked, then pull-back or stop. Grade unlocked: pull 500 back, do not add lower. Grade locked and they still only want lower: stop-loss, not another cut on the night number.
Monday review finds last week’s ungraded 500 already in the cost sheet: change the sheet before anyone speaks. Sheet unchanged: every letter this week talks the old 500. The old 500 is not a grade. The grade is the freeze sentence. No freeze: stop the number. The same mailbox, a new person, still asking What is your MOQ: pull the old thread’s clip. Do not treat them as new and send a lower ungraded number.
The review clip keeps: quantity-only original, link accepted or not, the floor’s grade and line, the quantity sentence you sent, whether lead time and price were bound. Missing one, next week no one knows which cell locked. Merchandising staples. Sales puts the WhatsApp original in the same clip. Finance writes whether an ungraded number already entered the cost sheet. Membership receipts staple into the membership axis, not this quantity axis. Do not mix the two axes.
The quotation lesson does not prove a store-wide 500 produces a specification
How to write a quotation proves a quote should name the goods, the quantity, and the price. It does not prove you must first send a store-wide 500. It does not audit your grade. It does not lock lead time. It does not lock a margin rate. If 500 appears in a reply, it can only be the bad example this shop typed into a showcase tile, or a piece count the floor accepted in writing after this thread faced a grade. Both need a source written down. Source missing: they will treat it as an official MOQ. The platform does not publish a store-wide 500 table.
How-to-sell proves reply soon as a tip. It does not prove a showcase MOQ answers this thread. The response lesson proves a reply inside 24 hours. It does not prove one number finishes this thread. All three pages open: you still face the original yourself. Sales must not write the lesson title into a buyer letter as “official MOQ 500.” A lesson title is not a freeze. A lesson redesigns: the replacement is only the then-current screen. Do not hand-write “I remember the lesson said the whole store is 500.” The lesson never wrote a store-wide 500. 500 is what this shop typed into its own showcase cell.
They send a screenshot of the quotation lesson, circle the word quantity, and write you must give a number. Circled is the lesson, not this thread’s grade. Reply: the lesson asks for quantity on a quotation, this thread has not locked 28cm, I will send quantity after grade. A lesson screenshot fills no diameter. The diameter is the freeze sentence. No freeze: stop the number.
Conditions follow the Message Center and showcase-management screens that opened on 2026-10-14, and this thread’s original. Membership still goes to ALIBABA.COM HONG KONG LIMITED. The receipt does not fill empty cells, and it does not hold margin for you. Corpable faces only the then-current screens in your clip, not a spoken “should be able to open.” We do not reply the quantity. How warm the script sounds fills no diameter cell. A warm ungraded 500 hurts margin more than a cold graded sentence with price empty. The store lead accepts only whether the five screens are complete. Complete: this page stops. Incomplete: stop the number. Empty: ask the grade first. Do not send 500 first. The ask returns to this thread, not a welcome note. A welcome note fills no quantity cell.
Questions teams actually ask
Can the price-only haggle page be how I answer MOQ only?
Do not paste it here. That page is cheapest with empty specs. Here they only want a quantity. Face the grade, then write the number. Do not lock lead time and unit price with it.
Can the lead-time page be the steps when this thread only asks MOQ?
No. That page is how to write a lead-time sentence. Here you first ask which grade the MOQ faces. Grade unlocked: leave lead time empty or write pending grade.
The quotation lesson writes quantity. Must I send a store-wide 500 the same day?
The lesson writes a quotation should carry quantity. It does not prove 500 will produce a specification, and it does not lock lead time. Ungraded 500 will bite later orders. If 500 comes from your own showcase, label it as a showcase display number. It is not an official MOQ.
How-to-sell writes reply soon. Must I copy the showcase MOQ into this thread?
Reply soon is asking which grade, or sending one openable quantity. That page does not prove you must paste showcase 500 pcs here.
They say just give MOQ and still will not say 28cm or the neighbour. Should I add a lower number?
Face whether the grade is locked. Not locked: do not add a lower number. Locked and they still only want a number: the stop-loss page. This note does not invent how low you must go.
Can Corpable reply the MOQ or guarantee margin is not locked?
We cannot reply it, and we cannot guarantee. Corpable Marketing Limited is a Hong Kong Alibaba.com service provider, not the quotation desk. An advisor can sit with you on which cell is still empty. Membership still goes to ALIBABA.COM HONG KONG LIMITED.
Related reading
- Price only, no spec
- How to write a lead-time promise
- PI template
- Inquiries without orders
- Contact Corpable · info@aliad.hk
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