What’s the biggest fear you had before importing for the first time?

Before I ever placed my first order, I remember how nervous I was. Importing felt like this huge, complicated world that everyone else seemed to understand except me. My biggest fear was simple: what if I paid for something and it never arrived? I kept imagining scenarios where the supplier would disappear, the shipping agent would lose my goods, or the box would finally land in Nairobi only for me to find something totally different from what I ordered.

I spent days researching, talking to different agents, comparing suppliers, and double-checking every possible detail — not because I enjoyed the process, but because I genuinely didn’t want to mess up my very first step. Even when I finally clicked “pay,” I still had that small knot in my stomach wondering whether I had just made a very expensive mistake.

Looking back, I think fear is a normal part of that first import. It’s the uncertainty that makes you second-guess everything, even when you’ve done your homework.

So I’m curious: what was the biggest fear you had before importing for the first time — and did it actually happen?