Ever hear of Alibaba?

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Has anyone ever heard of a website called Alibaba? If so have you/would you use it? It has really good prices but you have you buy in bulk. Interested to see if anyone has any experience with it.
 

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I've never used either but my understanding is Alibaba is more of a B2B platform. That's why you would need to buy in bulk. AliExpress on the other hand is a B2C platform owned by Alibaba so retail customers like you and I would go to AliExpress as opposed to Alibaba. I could be wrong though as mentioned I've never used either of them.
 

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According to Wikipedia, Fortune has named it one of the most admired companies (whatever that means). I've never heard of them.
 

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The saying "you get what you pay for" has me a bit worried to buy anything. But who knows it might have been a great find.
 

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It's a Chinese owned wholesale supplier company. I'd be willing to bet money anything you receive will be cheap, or counterfeit, junk. Just like almost everything that comes from China off eBay.
 

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Alibaba.com is more for finding suppliers, i think you have to communicate with them before buying vs click to buy. Aliexpress and DHgate are more click to buy. I wouldn't buy anything expensive or electronics, but I've bought other things.
 

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I have heard of it, it shows up a lot. I won't even click on it, to scam sounding to me.
 

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Also any of the stuff I have purchased that unknowingly to me at time of purchase has come from China gas been low quality.
 

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