ALIBABA VS ALI EXPRESS

So very briefly Alibaba is a wholesale

company so how about how Alibaba started

basically Alibaba was one of the biggest

changes that happened in China and China

have the big increase in business

because if you think back China was the

the the country that was really cheap to

produce things but it wasn't always the

country of production before things were

made locally in your new local domestic

countries but then China raised up to it

and and started to preview things really

really affordably and that attracted a

lot of business from everywhere around

the world everyone wanted to buy in

China everyone started buying in China

well the difference is although the

difficulty then was trust how do you

trust someone who is in China who you

have never seen who you've never spoken

to you've never visited how do you trust

that first tool you know receive your

money and actually deliver the product

that you want to in the quality that you

want to and based on that that was the

whole premise of how Alibaba started and

Alibaba is founded by a guy called

Chacma or Chinese money and he's founded

the company and he wanted to put the

trust in it he wanted to have a platform

that is act like a broker to me in

between the companies that order in

China and the companies that produce in

China and that kind of companies that

were that it all drop shipping wasn't

even a thing it didn't exist

So Alibaba first and it was just where

companies abroad bought big bold orders

of staff in China so the wholesalers and

everyone came bought these things in

China and that is why Alibaba

traditionally is a whole set platform

where people that sum up Amazon where

people that buy in bulk where whole

sellers Heather sellers distributors

brands and buy products in bulk and

China container loads or smaller smaller

shipments too big contain a lot of

things that they buy in China that's

what Alibaba was originally made for and

then people started and came up with a

kind of a idea and say well if people

buy big quantities in China maybe people

want to buy small quantities like one by

one by one units in China and that is

where Ali Express came in so Jack Ma saw

well why don't we do like like the

Amazon for from China and that is where

Holly Express came in so if you're

buying things on Ali Express the idea was

look we have local Chinese sellers that

are usually not manufacturers there are

brands in China that are sellers in

China trading companies or brands in

China people that have little local

stores like people in our countries have

eBay stores right that is basically the

eBay stores in China but not to the

Chinese people are to the foreigners

because the Chinese have another

platform is called Taobao that's the

biggest Chinese Amazon Chinese eBay

however the would you want to call that

and that is where the difference is

where they say okay let's find a

platform where Chinese cannot buy but

what Chinese can sell to end consumers

and that is where Alex press cameras on

Ali Express if you buy product you can

buy one unit two units three units very

small units from a company in China that

is a trading company that already bought

big quantities from Chinese

manufacturers and they then ship it out

to you and that is where drop shipping

came in what people say well look if I

can send one individual product to me

then I can send one individual product

to one individual buyer so people start

up put up Shopify stores and say okay

now that my store is up if people buy

I'm gonna take that money from the

customer I paid me and I've got a put

part of it and give it to an Ali Express

supplier.

And then have them ship out the

proactive now when we speak about a

development an express nowadays a lot of

people try to use Alibaba for

drop shipping the course they look at

Ali Express and Al Express sellers they

already know they can they they put the

prices as high up as they can because

they kind of know what appealing people

willing to pay for it because it's still

cheaper to buy it on on those prices

then if you will buy it locally in your

country so but this is where people

started to get smart and say look if I'm

paying this much wanna express maybe I

can get a better price on Alibaba so now

people start reaching out to suppliers

on Alibaba and it's horribly difficult

to find a supplier on Alibaba who can

drop ship your products because usually

the people that have an account on the

Alibaba platform they are there to sell

big quantities initially on those

platform it was all manufacturers now it

has shifted and mostly the companies

that you see on Alibaba are also trading

companies so the same trading companies

that you have selling on Ali Express sell

on Alibaba they sell bigger quantities

on Alibaba but their dropship from

Ali Express so now if you look on Anna

Barra and you find people that you want

to drop ship your product on that

platform some of the sellers do that

because they also offer the same service

on Ali Express but they are also on

Alibaba so they do that from there too

so you can't find better prices

sometimes but it's usually not really

words that thick because if you get the

price initially from the early harvest

supplier for drop shipping you could get

the same price from that same supplier

on Ali Express was just a little bit of

negotiations sometimes it can be worse

to do it however most of the time

suppliers are not interested in doing

drop shipping because that's what they

are the planet is not the right platform

for this a different platform so if you

want to do things simple if you just

want to start out if you want to go

straightaway find a way that quickly

gets your supplier you go to Ali Express

and you have a transmitter if you want

to buy for some book you go to any

bother if you want to have an even

better solution you hire a company like

where we help you source your product

and do the whole thing for you think

course sometime I said I tell your story

right my China my my girlfriend's

Chinese if I go with her to the fish

market fish market just down the street

and we'd buy some veggies fish shrimps

whatever it is if I'm with her the

prices that she gets up twenty thirty

percent higher right off the patch if

she goes without me the price has

dropped twenty to thirty percent and

that is because she's Chinese because

the Chinese seller knows he cannot sell

that high because she will not buy now

if I'm with her she's like oh the

foreigner there he must be rich I can

charge more that's kind of mentality

because they know they can charge more

and the same thing happens to your money

Papa the same thing happens to you on

Ali Express if you message a supplier

your price will always be higher than

the Chinese price.