Alibaba: Helping bring hard currency to commies
It’s like ebay or whatever in that it does not own the crap sold over it, they get a commission. The site didn’t sell $9 billion, other companies sold $9 billion through it
Years ago my husband started buying silly stuff from China. Lasers and other things you couldn’t get anywhere else. The shipping label always said, “Alibaba.” I asked him who they were. He replied, “Just a small Chinese company, they’ll never amount to much.”
They flooded the net with ads that day, I saw them pop up in places I’ve sure never seen them before.
I got delivered to their online storefront without clicking even, with a pop-under ad