These numbers are absolutely sick...
I'm gonna have to implement my own single's day sale in 2017!
Alibaba Posts $1B in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles’ Day
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
tmall is a website like amazon or ebay where sellers can setup a shop and sell to consumers.
Exactly, sorry - should have explained this. While aliexpress etc. are similar to Amazon marketplace, the tmall.hk site is geared towards trusted, foreign brands and big shops. You can setup a very distinctively looking shop, maintain your brand and standing out completely from the surrounding hosting site. You are not allowed to open a tmall.hk shop unless you are a globally recognized brand or a shop that makes at…
I didn't know about this distinction. Thank you for elaborating.
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#93sigh and all that plastic crap just ends up in the landfill (ocean) half a year later.
Instead we should have a "buy nothing day" that'd get celebrated for its 0$ sales.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love alibaba/aliexpress, it's like "China: The Website". Great for cheap microcontrollers and what not.
YES!! You can buy just an egregious amount of (crappy) components for very little money. As a wannabe-inventor that burns through a lot of components, this is really one of my favorite things about it.
It's great for amateur electronics projects. Need 100 22AWG five-strand connectors and you're not in a rush? Hit up AliExpress, and they'll show up on your doorstep for less than the price of a frozen pizza in a few weeks.
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#951 Aliexpress thinks Im in russia
2 Aliexpress.com tries to make tons of UDP connections, WebRTC? (unable to disable in desktop chrome)
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#96retail type of bullshit, literally. stuffing all the sale into a single day when none of the physical or non-physical systems are designed or implemented to meet such peak demand. my current company does everything to eliminate such peaks, which makes sense considering customer satisfaction (service quality) and cost efficiency, and some guys like alibaba doing the opposite. nothing but marketing scam, prices getting bloated in the day before and discounts(?) exclusive to 11.11.