Is bulk purchase legal if there is a sole distributor locally??

Hi Uncle,

I'm in trouble as organizing a few friends to do bulk purchase from Korea for a cleaning product. The story is below:

I found this cleaning product, and was very interested in it. But the local retail price is far too high. So I searched through internet and found some Korean supplier is offering at a much lower price. I contacted these supplier and get reply from one of them. He provide me the quotation, and asking me if I'm interested to be a sole distributor in Singapore, as he is looking for one. I explained the situation that I would like to organize some friends to make bulk purchase, for personal use only. And I'm not a registered company. So I'll not be a sole distributor.

Then I posted a thread in a forum and started to collect orders. I just ask ppl who are interested to leave me their email, and I'll contact them to collect payment once the min. order quantity is met.

A few weeks later, someone dropped me an email said that he is the sole distributor of this product in Singapore, and my post on the forum affected their business as I offered a lower price. He said he will sue me for my actions.


My questions are here:

1. Is bulk purchase directly from oversea supplier legal if there is already a local sole distributor?

2. As I'm not aware that there is an existing sole distributor here, do I need to take the responsibility? Or should the Korean supplier instead?

3. If they insist to sue, do I have any chance to win if the case submit to high court?
If i'm going to loss, roughly how much do I have to pay in total?

thanks to reply.
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常江

本地已有独家代理商, 但是在未知的情况下,组织从国外团购了同样的产品.
这样需要赔偿给本地代理商吗?

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Reply from Uncle Agony
Yes, even if there is a sole distributorship you could still import as the law recognise parallel import.The distributor can take up the case against manufacturer but not against you.

Should they commence legal action, you have a reasonable defense against them.

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  • 常江 提出于 2019-07-19 16:10

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