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by adventured 3978 days ago
Alibaba isn't a retailer like Amazon. They're a retail platform that serves ads. They're a lot more like Google than Amazon. Amazon actually makes money in retail, Alibaba makes no money in traditional retail (~95% of their sales and income come from ads).
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Assuming a large portion of that comes from Taobao+Aliexpress, maybe eBay is a more apt comparison?