DH gate or dhgate? Many people are curious about this question. When you first time hear the name of the China wholesale marketplace, you may wonder how to spell its name: dh gate, or dhgate? From Google Keyword Tool, the answer is obvious: most people guess the online wholesale website is spelled as dh gate. If you are one of them, unfortunately, I have to tell you that you have been wrong. The correct spelling of dhgate.com, as indicated clearly in its logo, is DHgate, with D and H capitalized, and “gate” in lower-case letters.
Then what does DHgate mean to such a wholesale site? Actually, DHgate should be read in two words in Chinese, that is, dh gate. So from pronunciation, dh gate is the correct way to call the China e-commerce company. Based on the overwhelming reports, DH are the initials of the Chinese pinyin DunHuang, a historically famous city–an important fortress of “the silk road”. And “gate” means a gateway or portal. As the company stated to the public, they use the combination of “dh” and “gate” with a hope that DHgate.com will become an important trade portal of China always opened to global merchants, and prosper like the ancient city DunHuang.
Since its foundation in 2004, DHgate.com has been growing in a very rapid speed and today, it has become a powerful China wholesale company serving more than 400,000 Chinses sellers and more than 2,100,000 buyers from over 230 countries. The company has opened a new era of e-commerce and has become the best trading marketplace for small and medium-sized merchants all over the world.
For more information, you can go visit their website: www.dhgate.com, or read our introduction: DHgate Review: China Wholesale Site for Small Merchants.
you stated you had “buyers from over 230 countries” when indeed, there are only 196 country’s (give or take a few Taiwan’s) in the world! How can I even trust this review?