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Overview

Alibaba has a rating of 3.6 stars from 13,058 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Alibaba most frequently mention good quality, trade assurance, and customer service. Alibaba ranks 1st among Sourcing sites.

  • Service
    988
  • Value
    971
  • Shipping
    969
  • Returns
    575
  • Quality
    955

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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 78.7%
Positive
144
Neutral
3
Negative
36

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Top Positive Review

“Trust and peace of mind”

Dorothy H.
7/14/24

Trading through alibaba provides peace of mind that your transactions are secured and you are trading with professionals. I will always buy from this platform and I recommend it to others. We also buy a lot of things for my work. Everything I have ordered in Australia always arrives on time and buying the products and selecting them has been made so easy through Alibaba. Very happy with the service!

Top Critical Review

“Alibaba Trade assurance is a scam”

Leif Erik G.
9/20/24

Even when you provide Trade Assurance with clear evidence a supplier has commited fraud, they will still side with the supplier. Please do not trust that Trade Assurance will help you or protect you as a customer in any way. You just pay extra when paying to Alibaba. That's it. And it's impossible to get help from customer service.

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May 14th, 2020

Can't say I'm a fan of the automatic verified delivery. Placed my order more than a month ago, and thanks to the supplier I finally received it. Had I been dealing with a scam, I question how difficult it would be to get a refund. I went in search, and have found what I wanted through Alibaba. Will I do business here again? I'm willing. Do I need to do business again? Not at this time. Would be nice if Alibaba wasn't advertised so heavily in Google's search engine. The pros and cons of over advertising is, you reach more people, but how many people are sick of seeing something repeatedly. You lose some of your audience due to being blocked and forgotten.

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June 9th, 2021

We've been doing business with them for over a year, and they were helpful when problems arose. For example, they replaced faulty parts, worked with us when we needed additional documents for customs, air transport and more. We're continuing business with them and are satisfied with the phones so far (we ordered 5 different models over the year).

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November 18th, 2020

I purchase usually 25 units a week. They are processed within two days and by the third day, I usually have tracking information. You couldn't want better customer service than Alice gives you. I wouldn't be more pleased and would recommend the company to any potential buyer.

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April 24th, 2019
Verified purchase

The product is extremely easy to use and it works on Chrome OS which is perfect for me because my register doubles as a back up desktop. So in between customers I can update my digital menu board without having to run to the back office. I love their prepackage screen layouts, I think the menu slides provided really came out great. I can not stress enough how easy it was to create, set up and edit on the fly this product was. I initially never gave a digital menu any thought because it seemed to expensive and out of reach. I am a new small business and they gave me two screens for a great price per month. I believe it is a wonderful value for the money and can see myself using it for many years to come! Highly recommend.

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October 23rd, 2019
Verified purchase

Hello,

So far, I have had two Customer Representatives, I lost contact with the first--I lost her address and forgot which representative I was dealing with--but she was truly terrific. Then I began my relationship with the second who is also a very wonderful person to deal with and I have a great working relationship with her (Nora). These two alone provided me with a high level of respect for the staff at Alibaba. Next, the products...

As for the products, in general, they are quite good, even excellent. However, given my situation, the cost is a bit of an issue. I am retired and the cost is not covered by my medical here in the US. However, the cost is overshadowed by quality and service.

In summation, I recommend Alibaba's store to anyone who is in need of their products.

Thank you for your time and attention,

Sincerely,

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June 7th, 2017

I'm assuming trade assurance means you purchase a product as advertised and you will receive that product as advertised in working condition, well, this has not been my case. I recently purchased an item and used Alipay for the payment process. After receiving the defective item I filed a dispute with them, also providing visual proof the item was defective, yet the money was released to the seller. It will be my very last purchase using Alibaba. The products, as a rule, are extremely poor quality. Never forget you get what you pay for.

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January 18th, 2020

Alibaba is a great tool for people running a small business or lab. I don't know where I'd be without it. It does however take some learning. You can't just buy from anyone and expect to be either satisfied or refunded without question every time. Learn to regard the other customer reviews and the ratings of the company you are looking to buy from, and learn to ask the right questions of the sales rep you talk to. Check to make sure the company is VERIFIED by Alibaba itself. You find that at the bottom of the company's home page. Do that and you'll be just fine.

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December 30th, 2019

This is the first time I have found a company and ordered a part on Alibaba. I was surprised how easy it was. I am Irish with no Chinese but managed to navigate through the site. I found a good company and was impressed with their help and attention they gave me.

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November 27th, 2020

Really great experience so far using this website, really responsive website, hey have quality assurances and trade protections in place so it gives you more confidence ordering. I placed 5 orders from 5 different companies and so far all positive experiences, easy to communicate with even though i only speak English, i have total confidence ordering again.

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November 16th, 2019

This was our first order through Alibaba. I was a little hesitant to order direct from China but your people did a great job in communicating and following my package of connectors for Rosenberger Hard Line. I will be considering using Alibaba again in the future for additional products as the need comes around. Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to express my thoughts and concerns regarding doing business through Alibaba.

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March 19th, 2019
Verified purchase

I have thoroughly been satisfied with every bit of my experience working with this company! My product arrived cleanly packed, quantity correct, and was safely shipped overseas! I will most certainly be recommending your business to anyone seeking your product types! Thank you for wonderful service and I hope to do many years of business with you!

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July 9th, 2015

They sell the most crap on the planet. I am giving everyone advise now, don't ever buy anything from these people. You will regret it, trust me. I bought stuff from them for the last year and everything I bought was crap, when I tried to return it it was impossible, plus you won't get a refund

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January 11th, 2020

I needed to order 250 custom logo pop sockets for an event, and almost decided to forget about it since it's very expensive to purchase them here in the U.S. - even in bulk. I discovered Alibaba.com while searching, however, and decided to try them. Ended up purchasing 250 custom logo pop sockets via Alababa from a company in China, and they did a great job... sent a couple photos of the initial pop socket to me within two hours after I placed the order, and then they mailed them out to me the next day. I had them in about a week, and was amazed at the good quality and prompt service. I'd order from that company again, and am glad I found Alibaba.com!

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September 30th, 2019
Verified purchase

Despite majority of manufacturers, suppliers and service providers on this site are sullying the name of the country by their poor products, services or deceptive work techniques, but a fine minority is keeping the country flag flying high with their quality products and services. English is not their first language but still they deliver the goods very well. Alibaba has to control such bad fish, weed them out and bring them to book. Thanks.

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April 18th, 2019
Verified purchase

Fast, Easy and Secure. User Friendly Applications. Wide selection of supplier.
Friendly staff. We are using alibaba for almost 10 years now so far we all have a successfull cooperation from my supplier.

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September 9th, 2019
Verified purchase

Exactly what I expected. This is a R+D project. I would also like to get information on a linear actuator with a 5000 newton load rating with a travel length of 150 mm 12 volt DC. The unit needs to be as short as possible when retracted. Approximate extension speed 5 mm per second.

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June 19th, 2020

First time placing an order on Alibaba.com. Though some of the products are available on another platform cannot be found here, most of the suppliers are wholesalers, the price is comparatively higher than another platform, the response from the supplier is fast, the insurance assurance made my purchase reliable, the shipping is fast and most importantly, the goods are of good quality - international standard.

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September 27th, 2019
Verified purchase

My first experience with Alibaba was excellent, from communication, timely shipping, secure payment options, as well as the products that I purchased. (I used 2 different vendors)
I think some of the vendors would be able to sell more if they lowered their minimum purchase. They should keep in mind that a lot of the buyers coming from the US are small start-up businesses.
I am a very satisfied customer.
Pros: Easy to work with, secure payment options, timely shipping
Cons: Shipping cost extremely high in some cases shipping cost more than the product, minimums are not low enough for new businesses

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September 4th, 2019
Verified purchase

Very easy to do business with and locate suppliers in a very efficient way.
I dont have 100 characters to enter sometimes less is more please dont spoil matters by trying to drag words out of ypu customers!

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August 13th, 2017

Alibaba took money from my mastercard and never shipped me the goods. When i contact them through their chat site, They refuse to refund my money into my credit card. Everybody should be carefull. Alibaba is a scam

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January 14th, 2020

I sampled with four manufacturer / suppliers and purchased from three for my e-commerce site. All of them were honest, forthright and professional. From the manufacturing to the finances I never felt any concern, and I am hard to please. Alibaba was as easy to use and as good as I have experienced.

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January 20th, 2020

Good prices, but poor quality tracking of quality of goods on its pictures. Bought lego droids, but they was from bad plastic and not lego, but its cheap fake. No complains for this though, because it was absolutely playable and okay for me.

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August 23rd, 2019
Verified purchase

There are a lot of Scammers and fraudsters who are using other company pages to advertise their product like iPhones whiles the licensing company deal in clothing. I have lost 1100 dollars trusting that fraudster. But is an eye-opener. Clean the website and help the suppliers so their page cannot be hacked. The hackers are using DG

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July 5th, 2019
Verified purchase

Amazing service, fast shipping and top quality printing... tysm silvia for your professionalism. Front start to finish for my first experience on Alibaba everything was smooth and easy and I look forward to ongoing relationship with this supplier.

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April 16th, 2020

Good service at that but the way your payments go through is not the way the refund comes. It translates into weeks and more. Your inspection is another big joke since you dont send updates nor agree with supplier the keypoints of what you are to inspect. Your chat though effective is very hard to reach especially we are on different time zones

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

Business History

The first business of Alibaba Group, Alibaba.com (www.alibaba.com) is the leading platform for global wholesale trade serving millions of buyers and suppliers around the world. Through Alibaba.com, small businesses can sell their products to companies in other countries. Sellers on Alibaba.com are typically manufacturers and distributors based in China and other manufacturing countries such as India, Pakistan, the United States and Thailand.

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