Taobao.com breaks record for online sales in a day - $3.1 billion USD

Post by guanggun » Wed, Nov 14, 2012, 2:35 AM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 14, 2012, 3:11 AM UTC

roy_x wrote: post #30

eikaterine wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Although I still wasn't sure what "singles day" is (some sort of reverse of Valentine's Day?), it's a little clearer by itself than "double sticks day" (a phrase which yields all of 3 results on Google). Googling "singles day" explained everything.

singles day is kind of kidding among young people. Blogger will write articles/poets this day to comfort people whom is still single, also merchants will give a discount for the same reason... The 1st-Jan is considered to be small singles day, then "11th-Jan" and "1st-Nov" the middle singles day, and "11th-Nov" the ultimate singles day.

Post by evansdiy » Wed, Nov 14, 2012, 3:53 AM UTC

kaka2 wrote: post #47

hoi wrote: post #6

Article forgets to mention that it was singles day in China, and Taobao did a special promotion for it. Still a good record to hol.

right, 應該讓老外知道中國電商在「光棍節」搞促銷的手段是多麼厲害。

Post by dengjw » Wed, Nov 14, 2012, 8:11 AM UTC

Jason_zlh wrote: post #67

why can not display my comment

Post by guard-of-terra » Wed, Nov 14, 2012, 10:40 AM UTC

grecy wrote: post #21

westiseast wrote: post #17

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with all due respect to Tsagadai, I disagree. Taobao is an excellent shopping experience and I've never been ripped off there (perhaps my wife is an expert taobao-ista, which helps). (1) Shops are absolutely crap scared of a bad review. Shoppers avoid bad reviews like the plague, and there's normally so much competition that you can always find an alternative. The 1 time we gave a bad review, we had a call from the s…

Makes me wish I could read/write/speak the language.