Interview: Blue Oceans Distributing, Part 1

April 21, 2009

You can reduce exposure to fraud for your company and customers with our 4-Step Verification Process. By taking this first step you make the wireless industry a safer and more secure place to do business by displaying the Wireless Association Verified Seal. We interviewed Wireless Association Verified Member Piotr Babichenko, founder of Blue Oceans Distributing. Here’s what he had to say about the value of the Verification Service:

WA: What have you found is the most valuable part of being a Wireless Association Verified Member?

PB: I believe that the Online Directory and Research Center are very valuable tools.  Often, sometimes 3 to 4 times a day, I will receive emails from people who are interested in my product containing no phone numbers and no company contact information. With the Directory and Research Center I can locate all the detailed contact information I need.  I can search for contacts by email address or last name, then I can pull up their complete contact information in the Directory.  I also find the Inventory Wizard to be very helpful.   I can post my entire inventory online and customers can view it 24/7 even when I am not available. Often they call me and ask me question about a product I have posted on the Inventory Wizard, helping me move product that I otherwise would not have time to sell. When I am not in the office, I can easily direct clients to my website www.blueod.com and tell them to click on the inventory link, and that link is integrated with the Wireless Association Inventory Wizard. My entire inventory is available all the time.

WA: Have you found being a Wassociation Verified Member makes it easier to do business?

PB: Defiantly. When I send bulk emails I include the Wireless Association Verified Seal and a link to my entire inventory. Customers who don’t know me or are outside the U.S. can easily view my verified information. They can call Wireless Association to verify my company and I receive instant credibility.

WA: Did you find it easy to become a Verified Member?

PB: Yes, it took me about 15 minutes to fill out the application. I received a verified seal about 2 days after Wireless Association finished their verification process on my company. The verification process is very thorough and that gives me confidence.

WA: Do you feel safer doing business with other Verified Members?

PB: Yes. When I see another company displaying their Verified Seal I know that company is in good standing in the wireless community, even if I have never heard of that company. For a company to keep their Wireless Association Verified seal they have to continue to do good business, and that gives me confidence to do business with them.

WA: What is your favorite Wassocation Premium Membership Benefit?

PB: I have several features that I use everyday, but I would have to say that the Inventory Wizard is probably my favorite. I don’t need to know any programming to get my inventory online and make it available 24/7 for my customers. With every email I send out I include a link to my online inventory. Often I don’t advertise some items because I wrongly assume that no one needs them, however often customers call me and tell me they saw an item on my Inventory Wizard that I thought no one wanted and want to know the price. I would say 10% of my sales are from the Inventory Wizard. Customers buy what they need. I don’t always know what that is, that is where the Inventory Wizard really helps me out.

WA: What suggestions do you have for improving the Verification Service?

PB: The Verification works. It would be nice if all wholesalers saw the value in bringing stability to the wireless wholesale market and would become verified. Our industry doesn’t have regulation and businesses can still pass bad checks or commit other fraud. I believe that the verification seal will slowly push out the bad companies and make our industry safer.

Blue Oceans Distributing is a wholesale company located in Boise, Idaho, USA.  The focus of Blue Oceans is to provide original and high quality replica lenses, battery doors, housing, and custom logo services to the wireless wholesale community in the United States and Canada. Blue Oceans warehouses components in their Idaho facility, making it possible to deliver most parts to customers overnight, reducing industry waiting time by approximately 2 weeks.

Blue Oceans Distributing is dedicated to not merely meeting, but exceeding customers’ individual expectations, needs and requirements at their specifications.

“We strive to provide our customers with unparalleled quality and professionalism”
–Piotr Babichenko

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