What's Your Experience with Alibaba?

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We are looking into some more product development and ecommerce stores with Alibaba. What has been your experience and if you have some tips, tools or advice in general that would be great?

Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author LightningYang
    Would love to hear of suggestions from Alibaba or anywhere else? thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author thatkeywordguy
    I spend a tiny bit of time there.

    Bottom line, I think you really have to know what you're doing, or be willing to learn.

    Product sourcing and manufacturing is challenging anyway you slice it.
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  • Profile picture of the author RizNicolas
    From my limited experience with Alibaba, this platform is full of brokers and middlemen who don't know what they're doing. They're just there to make a quick buck. Make sure you are dealing with the product source provider directly... and even that is still a challenge.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulie123
    One thing I have learned-when dealing with a Chinese company from alibaba, very little effort was made to shorten the language barrier. I think that is how and why they justify ripping people off.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Ogbin
    Alibaba like other places in the internet is a place that combined the real companies that are growing their company dramatically with help of Alibaba.

    And also has scams that are everywhere in it.

    You should be careful about the company that you are looking for.

    * Read the reviews that others buyers wrote.
    * Ask them for the catalog or a proof for the previous works.
    * Check for the real address that the company has.

    And others to make sure that the company is real before making a deal with.

    Good Luck Lighting Yang and all of you.
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