Let's talk Alibaba Generally

Alibaba is targeted to B to B business model, another words it should be wholesale market, but actually you can buy one unit or pc as long as they have inventory

There are many products you can buy on the shelve, or you can customize, like Mylar Bag

You can buy almost all products for home use, like Clothing, Toy, Kitchen Products, etc.

But there are some features

1, Alibaba can’t cover all industries, actually most of suppliers in Alibaba are from 7-17 catalogues

2, Most of suppliers from Alibaba are small or micro companies, and most of them are not the factories

3, There are many duplicated products, another words, there really many Same or similar products in some catalogues

4, There are many pirated products, Intellectual property in there is not been protected very well, for example, you can buy a lot products which logo are similar with Nike or Adidas

5, Most of them products are low tech products

6, Obviously there are some bugs in their rating system, High rating or good buyer review may not be true.