Property News · October 15, 2016

Slow delivery from AliExpress means there’s no China crisis for Amazon


The Chinese internet giant has its sights on global dominance, but its slow delivery times will let it downThe cheapest cover for an iPad mini costs £29.95 at Apple’s UK store. John Lewis sells one for £12.95. But if you visit China’s biggest internet site and have one shipped to your door in the UK, it costs just £1.37. Welcome to AliExpress, the English language version of Alibaba, the Chinese internet giant which is challenging Amazon for global dominance.Alibaba is the biggest e-commerce site in China, with 400 million active buyers. On a single day in 2015 it rang up sales of £9bn – double John Lewis’s sales across the entire year. It will come as little surprise that the firm’s founder, Jack Ma, is China’s richest man, with a fortune estimated at $29bn. So should we be junking Amazon and Argos and buying from AliExpress? Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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