Review on AliExpress by jesus ruiz
AliExpress, the Chinese online retail giant
We have always thought that e-commerce is the future of the world economy. Well, that future is already here. There are countless online sales platforms around the world that make our lives easier. Imagine entering from your desktop computer or from a SmartPhone, to the sales platforms and make purchases, and then wait for them to be delivered to your hands without leaving your home.
One of the most important online sales platforms today is AliExpress. Founded in 2010 by small businesses from the People's Republic of China and elsewhere, it offers products for international buyers. AliExpress is owned by the Alibaba Group corporation.
AliExpress is known worldwide as the Chinese Amazon. It is an online shopping platform, a worldwide shopping mall, where thousands of sellers offer their items, creating a great competition among them. This is the origin of its low prices.
As in most online sales platforms, Aliexpress sellers can be companies or individuals. In its beginnings, Aliexpress acted as an e-commerce platform and did not sell products directly to consumers, it only acted as a business-to-business buying and selling portal. But over time it expanded its consumer-to-consumer selling services.
Selling on AliExpress is an increasingly simple option. The platform connects multiple sellers, usually SMEs, with their customers. Sellers affiliated with the platform pay a commission on sales, and are subject to a series of quality and customer commitment rules.
On Aliexpress it is not possible to pay for purchases with Bitcoin. In fact, the company itself has reported on several occasions about this, indicating that payments with cryptocurrencies are not supported on its platform.
Nor does it offer gift cards, so the option of someone buying a card from us and then paying him with cryptocurrencies is ruled out.
Pros
- Offers lower prices than other similar platforms on the items they sell.
- It has a very easy and pleasant website to navigate and very complete with a huge amount of products on offer.
- To sell on AliExpress, the platform connects multiple sellers, usually SMEs, with their customers.
Cons
- Does not offer gift cards
- Does not accept cryptocurrency payments either directly or indirectly
