Alibaba - China Wholesale Marketplace

Recently, services with closed access to information from wholesalers have become popular. One of these services is merkandi.com. Standard registration on this site costs 84.00 € per year. I spoke with one person who took advantage of the purchase of such sensitive information.

It turned out that most of the contacts of sellers can be easily found in the public domain. Today I want to tell you about the site alibaba.com

For an illustrative example, I have chosen a certain model of equipment at Aukro and shown how much the same product can be bought in Europe. Even if we take it at the retail price, the difference fluctuates by at least 100%. I chose the Dell Latitude E6500 laptop model. At Aukro, the minimum price is 3400 UAH. for a laptop that does not have a side cover for a hard drive, the seller himself estimates the condition at 4 on a 5-point system.

A cursory search on alibaba.com found the same laptop in Germany for 70 euros. The only "but" is the minimum order of 10 pieces. Although alibaba.com is considered a site for wholesales, it is common to find products that sell from 1 piece. And if the shipment is less than 150 euros, the goods are not subject to customs duty. To order in bulk, you need to calculate everything in detail. Customs duty is not cheap now, first of all, you need to analyze the demand for a certain product.

The site alibaba.com is Russified . There are detailed guides for sellers and buyers on how to properly use this platform. Therefore, I see no point in describing the interface in detail. I tried to calculate what the initial amount should be in order to start trading a product using this site. My opinion is that the starting capital should be at least 10,000 USD. This is a perfectly working scheme. And, most importantly, you can buy goods from Europeans.