"inspecting the goods" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe the action of examining or checking the quality or condition of items that are being bought or sold. Example: The customer spent over an hour inspecting the goods before making a decision to purchase the antique vase.
For manufacturers, this is straightforward: they take delivery, inspect the goods and pay their suppliers.
Inside the auction house, potential bidders inspected the goods while eating cubed cheese and scooping guacamole from giant martini glasses.
Purchasing finds vendors, negotiates price, places the order, inspects the goods, and pays the invoice and eventually the accountants get their pencils.
In the U.S., shopping for produce in the local market follows this script: inspect the goods, decide if you are willing to pay the advertised price, and pay.
The items were in the possession of two memorabilia dealers, Bruce L. Fromong and Alfred Beardsley, who were led to believe that a prospective buyer was coming to inspect the goods.
You really need a sourcing department to do it right, to develop the product, arrange for it to be shipped and inspect the goods.
She wrote about climbing aboard to inspect the goods and then praised the owner of Gateway trucking company, who helped her sort through the boxes so that she could examine the product.
Whether the goods get out of Gaza depends on what happens at the borders.At the moment Israel, for security reasons, unloads and inspects the goods at the border, then loads them on an Israeli truck and then unloads and reloads again if the goods are destined for the West Bank.
The second is that it inspects the goods beforehand to make certain that they live up to the claims being made about them.Herman Zampariolo, the head of WabiSabiLabi, says that hundreds of hackers have registered with the company since the marketplace was set up.
The investigation began in 2012, when Customs and Border Protection agents at the Port of Newark noticed anomalies in a shipping manifest; upon opening a 40-foot cargo container, the agents inspected the goods and realized they were counterfeit, said Leon Hayward, the assistant director of trade and cargo security for the border agency.
