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by steve19 2713 days ago
I wouldn't trust the Alipay stats. The aliexpress 11.11 pre-sale BS forces everyone's purchases to be ordered in advance for two weeks at one time of the year. The actual sales are often as little as 1% discount. They then claim insane one day sales figures when they batch process all those transactions through Alipay.

https://aliexpressblog.com/the-november-11th-sales-is-now-op...