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Alibaba

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Alibaba Reviews Summary

The overall reputation of the company is mixed, with some customers appreciating the variety and affordability of products offered. However, significant concerns dominate the feedback, particularly regarding customer service and support. Many users report frustrating experiences with delayed refunds, ineffective communication, and unresolved product quality issues, often feeling misled by the company's assurances. The Trade Assurance program is frequently described as inadequate, failing to protect buyers effectively. This combination of positive product experiences and pervasive service challenges suggests a need for improved customer support and better oversight of suppliers to enhance overall customer satisfaction.

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service
1,333
value
1,312
shipping
1,306
returns
770
quality
1,285
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New Zealand
1 review
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Finding a Supplier
August 14, 2019

Alibaba has helped me to find a very good supplier. Contacting them through Alibaba and seeing their ratings on Alibaba gave me the confidence to go forward in doing business with them. They have turned out the be an excellent supplier, and I am very happy that I have found them through Alibaba.

Date of experience: August 14, 2019
Seychelles
1 review
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I ORDER A CAT I GOT A TIGER
August 14, 2019

I DID NOT GET WHAT I ORDER. EVEN AFTER MAKING SURE THREE TIME THAT WHAT SHE WAS SENDING ME WAS AS PER THE PICTURE SHE STILL DHL ME THE WRONG THING,

Date of experience: August 14, 2019
India
1 review
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Business Place
August 14, 2019

Very easy to interact with all suppliers and have more options to choose the exact product. Thanks alibaba

Date of experience: August 14, 2019
Hungary
1 review
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Easy to use and understand
August 14, 2019

Perfect for everyone. I was a first time buyer and the process was easy to understand. The payment process were great too.

Date of experience: August 14, 2019
Qatar
1 review
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Packing
August 14, 2019

Every customer needs clear and original packing. This not issue if personal use retail sales always need clear packing thanks.

Date of experience: August 13, 2019
KR
1 review
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MacCarty PR 594 Guitar
August 14, 2019

For the most part the web site insures the buyer. But you might have language problems with seller but this is usually not a problem. Sometimes time is a problem for orders. But the web site seems good.

Date of experience: August 13, 2019
India
1 review
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Good
August 14, 2019

Though service is very good but money transfer by credit card is painful on it service charge. Because no other online business site take service charge for transfer of money by credit card.

Date of experience: August 13, 2019
Australia
1 review
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Satisfactory
August 14, 2019

Professional etiquette and producing a functional responsive apparatus in witch to conduct business etc etc etc etc..

Date of experience: August 13, 2019
Switzerland
1 review
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Best platform ever. Well done. Easy to reorder. To communicate with the supplier. Fast reply. Always get a reminder which helps to track the orders.

Date of experience: August 13, 2019
South Africa
1 review
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My experience was very good, things went the way I expected them to be and products were as agreed, im very grateful

Date of experience: August 13, 2019
Washington
1 review
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So many sources for products
August 14, 2019

I have found mostly good suppliers through Alibaba. 2 bad experience but our fault for not using Trade Assurance. We highly recommend it.

Date of experience: August 13, 2019
Australia
1 review
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Easy to understand
August 14, 2019

Very professional great service thanks regards happythis is the first time i have used this site look forward to my next experance

Date of experience: August 13, 2019
California
1 review
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Good
August 14, 2019

Good service, perfect design and professional service
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Good service, perfect design and professional service
Good service, perfect design and professional service

Date of experience: August 13, 2019
Canada
1 review
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All you need in one place
August 14, 2019

You can fined every thing you want on Alibaba. Even the shipping forwarders. Prices are different but definitely you can find high-quality and good price products.

Date of experience: August 13, 2019
Florida
1 review
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So convenient and easy to use
August 14, 2019

I have used Alibaba.com to find products for my shop, communicate with suppliers, and order product samples. The site is very easy to use and I can find a wide variety of high quality product. S

Date of experience: August 13, 2019
New Mexico
2 reviews
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Mrs. LI LY, at Guangzhou Dailusha Trading Co., Ltd, sold me a machine that never worked. I contacted them & they sent a video. I was able to get it to work only intermittently. It would work once, then not work the next time. They kept giving me different things to do and it was finally established that the handle on this machine was faulty. (There was a small screw that would drop out, causing it to malfunction) They promised to send a new one, but never did. They also stopped answering any of my emails/messages on Alibaba. I finally went to customer service with the complaint, but by then, my warranty had run out.

Save your money, I lost $1600 with Alibaba. I did have customer service contact me when I'd posted a negative review on another site, saying they'd look into it. That was 3 weeks ago and now, no response from them either. So besides the dishonest vendors, Alibaba's customer service doesn't do anything to rectify problems either.

Date of experience: August 13, 2019
France
1 review
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The products are great, and more than that, the service is of quality too.
Sellers do their maximum to provide the product we need and want, and they do it in a truly professional way.

Date of experience: August 13, 2019
Canada
1 review
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Excellent
August 13, 2019

This is my first experience as a buyer on the Alibaba website and I was super satisfied. Very good safe site. I strongly recomamnde this site. Afe site

Date of experience: August 13, 2019
New Zealand
1 review
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Invoice
August 13, 2019

On some invoice, I have received there nothing mentioned about shipping cost- just the goods price
It means no tax for shipping
Unfortunately, Alibaba considered shipping cost MUST be on invoice as long as lots of other invoices do not mention it on invoice

Date of experience: August 13, 2019
Canada
1 review
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Pop socket purchase
August 13, 2019

My experience was easy. It was easy to order and get my product at a great price. Thank you so much

Date of experience: August 13, 2019

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Alibaba.com is the world's leading wholesale trade platform that connects buyers and suppliers from around the world.


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Founded in 1999
Hangzhou, ZJ, China
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