AliExpress (AlieExpress) is part of the Alibaba Group Corporation. It is hard to believe, but the empire was created in the apartment of a simple Chinese, Ma Yun, known under the pseudonym Jack Ma. After the failure of the first Internet project "Chinese Yellow Pages", he got excited about the idea of ​​creating an online platform that will not engage in trade in its pure form, but will help others to sell and buy. Under this vague idea in 1999 investments were attracted and 17 people were invited.
For several years, Jack Ma built a corporation that seized China, surpassed Amazon, defeated Ebay. The company has created the best conditions for trade. What is its own payment system AliPay, which does not transfer money to the seller until the buyer confirms that everything is in order with his sending?
One of the projects of Alibaba Group is AliExpress. He successfully started in 2010. The bet was made that was ready to accept the world - low prices, interesting products and the opportunity to engage in shopping directly from home. After two years, 800 thousand users have become users of the site.
Some facts:
- In 2014, the site became the number 1 online store in Russia, and continues to retain this title.
- In 2017, the number of users increased to 100 million.
- The Russian audience takes the first place and has more than 22 million people.
- On the day of global sales (November 11), the websites of Alibaba-Group sold goods for 25.3 billion dollars, and with such a load there was no failure of the payment system.
The Chinese themselves cannot buy on AliExpress, for them there are sites Taobao and Tmall. Since October 2017, the Tmall marketplace also works for Russian buyers. The site is launched inside the platform AliExpress. Part of the goods is in China, part is sold with delivery from Russia. There are many interesting, unusual and very attractive things at affordable prices on both AlieExpress and Tmall.