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My only experience on Alibaba involved someone sending me a free sample of a fake product. Whatever you do, get references and make sure you trust them before y
by rms 17y ago
My only experience on Alibaba involved someone sending me a free sample of a fake product. Whatever you do, get references and make sure you trust them before you wire the money.
As far as a general answer to your question -- it depends, but Ali Baba is certainly not only for suckers. It's too big to be worthless.
- mahmud 17y agoI don't think it was a fake product, but most likely a fake brand. You should only be buying original brands from their manufacturers, or generic commodity items. For example, you can get great prices on LCD screens on Alibaba, but you will get a fake Samsung LCD screen, unless you were buying from Samsung or a reseller. People who get fake stuff from Alibaba willingly do so. Counterfeit is a huge business, and every minute a moron gets ripped off on EBay, so he decides to rip off others by importing counterfeit products with the intention to resell them. What he doesn't know is that he will be ripped off again, this time wholesale. It's for this reason that generic, white-label products are hard to come by in certain markets; it might even be cheaper, sometimes, to buy new cases for knockoff products and rebrand them yourself as Acme.
- rms 17y agoIn my case it really was a fake product but I wasn't buying electronic components.
- mahmud 17y ago:-( Yesterday my girlfriend bought me a electronic shaving kit from a reputable chain store and I remembered seeing that same product in China for $10; I was asked to export it. I have even seen Australian mobile phone company booths selling knockoff phones without realizing it.