How can it be the largest IPO offering ever?
I have tried MANY times to buy stuff off of Alibaba... and have NEVER been successful.
They DON'T sell anything!
If you find anything you like, the seller is like "Minimum order... 10,000 units."
Well, I don't want 10,000, I just want one.
It IS NOT an Ebay rival... Amazon... or even Itsy...
I've actually bought things from those... sales actually take place.
Alibaba seems just like a manufacturers wish list of stuff they COULD make if you order enough to make it worth their while retooling an entire sweatshop to make them for you at mass-production. And even at that, importing the damn thing is your problem... you can pick it up from their warehouse in China. Under that premise, hell, I'll list new manufacture Star Wars cabs with vector monitors for only $1,500 each (minimum order 10,000). To actually sell an item to an actual customer? Not so much.
I don't get it. And I think the news is blowing it out of proportion calling it bigger than Ebay... bigger than Amazon. HOW? There's nothing actually for sale there.
Has ANYONE here EVER ACTUALLY successfully bought anything from Alibaba?
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