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I’m a Romanian. What do you mean Alibaba is beating Amazon in România? I’d say that’s hyperbole. Neither of them are present here and if I were to guess judgin
by bad_user 8y ago
I’m a Romanian. What do you mean Alibaba is beating Amazon in România?
I’d say that’s hyperbole. Neither of them are present here and if I were to guess judging by my own experience, I’d say that Amazon is still more popular.
Do you have hard numbers?
Of course neither of them hold a candle to the local eMag, but that’s only natural.
- paganel 8y agoIt’s hard to get hard numbers on this but in my circle of acquaintances “you can find it on Alibaba” and variations of this has become almost like a noun, like “I’m going to make a Xerox (i.e. a photocopy) of this paper”. I’ve never heard anything similar concerning Amazon. My acquaintances are mostly non/tech people, 25 to 35 years of age, from Bucharest. Emag is of course a totally different beast but I had chose to ignore it because it didn’t directly concerned the article. Slightly OT, I’m also curious how come no analyst is mentioning FB marketplace as a competitor to Amazon.
- product50 8y agoI am not talking about literally every country in the world. But most countries that matter, in terms of the combination of their population and GDP, Amazon is there or nearly there in terms of being the top player in the market.