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by pagnotta 4146 days ago
Alibaba is like MercadoLivre, they don't sell anything. They pretty dominant, in China they have TaoBao, an e-bay like, TianMao, also like e-bay, but more selected, more expensive to open a shop in it, and more brand-oriented than TaoBao, and finally they have Alibaba China, that is a B2B site, it means real wholesale. Oh, there is also Alipay, huge, it is the Paypal in China, people here use it even to pay 10 bucks to a friend when sharing a restaurant bill, a guy just taps his mobile phone and send the 10 bucks to his friend that is sitting just across from him, it's funny. There is also Alimama, advertising market. The thing is that in Brazil (I'm a brazilian too!) the e-commerce is still far from the level it has reached in China. My wife (chinese) buys everything in the internet, even noodles, milk, oil, soap,her clothes, her Lenovo laptop, her Iphone6, everything from the internet. She can't spent a day without buying at least a pair of socks from the internet. Brazil lacked a good payment system, but now with PagSeguro i guess things will improve. But there is also the expensive delivery in Brazil, in China it's ridiculously cheap, like you pay 30 Reais to send a 5 kilos pack 2000 Kilometer away to the other side of the country within 24 hours!!