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yeah the numbers are likely fudged, but it's baffling how someone can write up that much about Alibaba group with seemingly no understanding of how the platform
by nrser 11y ago
yeah the numbers are likely fudged, but it's baffling how someone can write up that much about Alibaba group with seemingly no understanding of how the platforms work... Alibaba is like Amazon for China in scale and dominance, not in operation. it's basically like saying Airbnb is going to have to buy a ton of houses to satisfy the Christmas travel demand.
- gozo 11y agoYeah, like: > Most people then figured that the users had multiple deliveries which is I guess a possibility. Possibility? That's the default. Whenever I'm in China I have 5+ pending orders from Taobao at any given time. From a single battery to reels of components or $500 equipment. Pretty much always from independent distributors, often in the same city or the other 10+ million people city next doors. Often you get delivery two-three times a day with all handwritten slips and boxes of all sizes wrapped in layers and layers of tape. Whenever I go home late at night you pass the local shipping centers having spread their packages all over the sidewalk and close to my hotel there usually a few guys sorting packages in a small van and a couple of electric motorcycles. Sure, the numbers might be inflated, but the article does the classic mistake of trying to understand China with a western mindset.