For many Chinese netizens, frequenting online shopping sites, especially group-buying sites, has become a part of their daily routine.
In April 2008, Taobao, China's biggest online shopping site published a B2C (Business-to-Consumer) platform called Taobao Mall to complement its C2C (Consumer-to-Consumer) marketplace. In November 2010, Taobao Mall launched an independent web domain, tmall.com. The site includes products from more than 30,000 major multinational and Chinese brands. Founded by Alibaba Group on May 10, 2003, Taobao operates the largest e-commerce in Asia. It hosts more than 6.2 million online stores, and facilitates business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer retail by providing a platform for businesses and individual entrepreneurs to open online retail stores. According to Taobao, about 53,000 items are sold on its website every minute, and its gross merchandise volume was about 400 billion yuan in 2010. In June 2011, Alibaba revealed that Taobao would be split three different companies: eTao (to be used for product searches), Taobao Mall (a B2C platform), and Taobao Marketplace (a C2C platform).
Launched on September 12, 2005, paipai.com is an e-commerce business platform owned by Tencent Inc., China's largest and most used internet service portal. Thanks to a large number of users in Tencent QQ (Tencent's free instant massaging program), paipai has rapidly grown into one of the most popular C2C platforms in China.
Tuan800 is branded as the largest group-buying navigation site in China. Founded in June 2010, the site now has collected more than 1,000 different group-buying networks and updates millions of online shopping information every day. Consumers can download discount coupons on the site and also receive various online services, like expiration reminders. Users can also communicate their group-buying experience with other consumers.
Since October 2007, VANCL has started to sell its own brand of clothes on line. Set up by Chen Nian, former founder of Amazon and his team, Vancl.com currently has become one of the most highest-earning online shopping sites in China. It sells t-shirts, polo shirts, casual wear and shoes.
Launched in November 1999, dangdang.com is the largest online bookstore in China. It provides more than 600,000 Chinese books and various audio and video products to consumers, and also sells home appliances, clothes, high-tech products, as well as maternal and baby needs. On December 8, 2010, dangdang.com listed on the New York Stock Exchange, attracting lots of attention.
Ozon.ru This site specializes in offering products belonging to categories like electronics, music, health, beauty, clothing, gifts, and antique. Each product comes with features like images that can be enlarged for a closer look, feature list, reviews from the users, and related products. The site provides customer support 24 x 7, while the site generates over $ 300 million in revenue.
Tiu.ru - This is a site specializing in offering goods and services for businesses. They have combined b2b and b2c model. They range from providing raw materials, equipment, and machinery for businesses to services like car rental and leasing. Several maintenance and construction work are also available under the services roof.
kobo.com - for every bookworm out there.
Amazon.com - books, toys, gifts, accessories. They also offer self-publishing tools.
ar-sa.wadi.com - They provide a large variety of products on their online stores
starting from electronics, watches, fashion items, beauty products, baby care products, toys for
kids, home appliances and much more. It is a very good option if you want to buy products a cheap rates.
ebay - any products you may dream of. Musical instruments, brand clothing, books, services, home made stuff, motorcycles, fashion, stuff for home brewing etc.
aliexpress.com - worldwide delivery, everything from cellphones, sport equipment, home appliances to nail art products.
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