What actually goes wrong in this trade
It is rarely an outright disappearance, although that happens. The common failures are quieter. Money is requested to a personal account rather than a company one, so there is no corporate counterparty to pursue. The grade slips between the quotation and the loading, and the photographs you were sent turn out to be of stock that was never yours. Payment clears and the messages stop for three weeks. Or the paperwork does not match the container, and the discrepancy only surfaces at a port where storage is charged daily.
Every protection below exists because of one of those four failure modes, and each one is a term you can check before you send anything.
Corporate account, name-match
Every payment goes to the ENGICOR corporate bank account, and the beneficiary name matches the company and its Ajman Free Zone licence. We never ask for transfers to personal accounts, to a director's name, or to a third party in an unrelated country.
This is the cheapest check you can run on any supplier, including us: ask for the beneficiary details before you commit and see whether the name on the account is the name on the invoice and the licence. A mismatch is not an administrative quirk. It is the single most reliable warning sign in this business.
Your 10% is credit, not a fee
The deposit is credited 100% against the order — it reduces the balance rather than sitting on top of it — and it buys a concrete deliverable within days: sourcing activated, units QR-labelled against your order, a preliminary video of your actual lot, and a reservation held for 14 days.
It is non-refundable, and we say so plainly rather than burying it. What makes that acceptable is that it is short-dated and visible: within days you either have a video of your lot or you have grounds to complain.
The right to reject, in writing
After the audit you approve every unit before anything ships. Reject an engine and it is replaced free with another Grade A. The right is written into the Proforma Invoice with a five-business-day approval window, not offered verbally.
This is what stands in place of a warranty. ENGICOR does not sell a 30-day or 60-day guarantee and does not run a DOA window — engines are sold as approved. We think an inspection you control before the balance is paid is worth more than a warranty you would have to enforce from another continent, and we would rather publish that trade-off than a promise we could not honour.
Every serial on paper
The Proforma Invoice, the commercial invoice and the packing list are tied to every EC- serial, alongside the certificate of origin and the Bill of Lading. Every engine in the container matches a document you can audit, and every document matches an engine you approved.
That paper trail is also what makes an insurance claim workable. Under FOB the marine cargo policy is yours and under CIF it is ours, but either way a damaged unit is identified by a serial that ties to a photo set taken before loading — evidence rather than an argument.
Documented loading
The container is sealed, the seal number is photographed, loading photos are sent, and you can join a live video call while the box is filled. The photographed seal is what connects the load you approved to the load that arrives: if the seal at the discharge port is not the seal in your photograph, you know before you open the doors.
Never more than five days of silence
From deposit to delivery you receive proactive milestone updates at least every five days, even when the update is simply the date of the next step. It is a small commitment and an unusually diagnostic one: in the failures we hear about from buyers who came to us after a bad container, the silence started long before the problem was admitted.
What we do not offer
No escrow and no marketplace trade-assurance wrapper — we sell direct, and the protections above are contractual rather than platform-enforced. No time-based warranty and no DOA window. No DAP or door delivery. No payment terms after shipping: the balance is due before the container sails.
Those limits are as important as the commitments. A supplier who agrees to everything you ask on a first order is telling you something about how carefully they intend to keep it, and you can verify a written limit far more easily than an enthusiastic promise. If you want to check us the way we would check a stranger, start with the licence number and read our own guide on how to verify a used engine supplier.
Price a container yourself
Build the mix you want in the online quoter — exactly 90 units in a 20-ft or 130 in a 40-ft — and the FOB total reaches your inbox the same minute, at our published per-unit prices, every unit Grade A. Prefer to ask? Tell us the destination country and the codes you need and we reply within one business day, usually within hours, with photos.
Frequently asked
How do I avoid being scammed when buying used engines from China?
Run four checks before you send money: confirm the beneficiary name on the bank account matches the company name and its licence number; require a written Proforma Invoice carrying models, quantity, Incoterm, the payment ladder and your right to reject; insist on per-unit evidence — serial, photographs and video of the actual units reserved for you, not catalogue stock; and require documents tied to serials so the packing list matches the container. A supplier who resists any of the four is telling you which one matters.
Do you accept payment to a personal account?
No, never. Every payment goes to the ENGICOR corporate bank account with the beneficiary name matching the company and its Ajman Free Zone licence. A request to pay a personal name, a third party, or an account in a country unrelated to the transaction is the most reliable warning sign in this trade — from any supplier, including one that looks as established as we do.
Is the 10% deposit refundable?
No, but it is credited 100% against your order rather than charged on top of it, and the reservation it buys holds for 14 days. Within days of paying it you receive a preliminary video of the actual lot being assembled in your name, so you find out quickly whether the supplier delivers.
Do you use escrow or trade assurance?
No. We sell direct rather than through a marketplace, so the protections are contractual: the staged 10/20/70 ladder, the written right to reject and replace before loading, serial-level documentation, a photographed container seal and a corporate account that name-matches the licence. If platform-held escrow is a requirement for your first order, we are not the right supplier and would rather say so before a deposit.
What happens if an engine I approved arrives damaged?
It is a marine cargo insurance claim, not a warranty claim — yours under FOB and ours under CIF. Because every unit carries an EC- serial tied to a photo set taken before loading and to a line on the packing list, the damaged unit can be identified precisely and the claim is supported by evidence rather than argument. There is no DOA window and no time-based warranty: engines are sold as approved.