[dwshorowitz]

gbraad, thanks very much for your insights! Your assessment of Alibaba.com's international marketplace is spot on.

Here's what we mean by 'safer'; our competing B2B International Marketplace (soon to be branded) is an integrated ecosystem of logistics service providers (neutral 3rd party logistics warehouses), suppliers and buyers. Our inspection, inventory management, and distribution management suite allows for real-time visibility (http://www.hdtradeservices.com/distributor.php#inspection), and facilitates a hyper-proactive approach to purchasing. The result is an unprecedented level of transparency and security when sourcing, as you can verify quality before your goods are paid for and shipped. Further, all suppliers on our platform will be rigorously vetted, and monitored via our inspection service.

I hope this helps answer your question.

[Evbn]

I think you hid an answer somewhere in their, bit it is buried in advertising puffery and pablum.