Aliexpress is a part of the Alibaba Group Corporation. It's 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 Chinese Yellow Pages Internet project, he set about creating an online platform that would not engage in pure trade, but would help others to sell and buy. Under this vague idea in 1999, investments were attracted and 17 people were invited.
Within a few years, Jack Ma built a corporation that took over China, surpassed Amazon, defeated Ebay. The company has created the best conditions for trading. What is its AliPay payment system worth, which does not transfer money to the seller until the buyer confirms that everything is in order with his package.
One of the projects of Alibaba Group is AliExpress. It got off to a good start in 2010. The bet was made on what the world was ready to accept - low prices, interesting goods and the opportunity to do shopping right from home. Two years later, 800 thousand people became users of the site.
A few facts:
- In 2014, the site became the No. 1 online store in Russia, and continues to hold this title.
- In 2017, the number of users grew to 100 million.
- The Russian audience takes the first place and has more than 22 million people.
- On the day of the global sale (November 11), the Alibaba Group sites sold $ 25.3 billion worth of goods, and with such a load there was no failure of the payment system.
The Chinese themselves cannot buy on Aliexpress, there are Taobao and Tmall sites for them. Since October 2017, the Tmall platform has also been working for Russian buyers. The site is launched within the Aliexpress platform. Some of the goods are in China, some are sold with delivery from Russia. Both AlieExpress and Tmall have a lot of interesting, unusual and very attractive things at affordable prices.