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Alibaba has a rating of 3.7 stars from 13,059 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
    989
  • Value
    972
  • Shipping
    970
  • Returns
    576
  • Quality
    956

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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 78.8%
Positive
145
Neutral
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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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January 3rd, 2020

Prompt shipment and good quality, beside, a discrepancy as stated below:
Our Order was for size of length 1850mm, and we have mentioned several times, but when goods arrived it was 2035mm of length.
Please let us know in advance, if you can not supply this size, and kindly keep us informed what's the other length sizes produced by manufacturer.

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July 22nd, 2019
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All the orders were easy to track and the information was available as submitted by supplier.
The communication with suppliers is very easy with the message center.
The visibility of the orders was new for me and I enjoyed it. My trust in this community has increased.

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June 2nd, 2019
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Very easy and fast action price is good. Any parts or things you require is easy just one finger key in Ali Baba. You will get what you looking for. Anything you wish. What we want we can get it. Amazing, no other better than Ali Baba

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March 10th, 2019
Verified purchase

To keep this short here is why you should use alibaba

1 - You can contact hundreds of suppliers
2 - Everything is in one place and easy to navigate
3 - Prices are excellent but can still be negotiated

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June 25th, 2020

Many companies allow online sale of their products on the alibaba website, but when we purchase between 20-50 sample products with a credit card, they do not ship the products.
Currently, there are 4 orders that I paid for on Alibaba, but the companies are not sending.

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August 3rd, 2020

Ellie was amazing to deal with & everything went smoothly, to the point I have already made another order of their amazing dresses. The communication is fantastic & anything Ellie isn't sure of, she checks with me.
I look forward to a long relationship with this supplier.

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June 15th, 2020

I am a Vet with 30 years of service. These bastards took my order, my money and my time. They have had my payment in full (2600. 00 CAD) since Sept for a 45 delivery. Still don't have product and refund department offered me 100.00. F ing criminals. Do not buy from them especially Hangzhou Horeca Technology Co., Ltd.

Do not do business with these crooks. Retired Sgt. Flexhaug Preece

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November 10th, 2020

Alibaba Trade Assurance did everything they said they would. In my book what more can we want.

My product is a private label and I don't want to include a picture. I am a real customer of Alibaba and will remain so.

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May 5th, 2019
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Started using Alibaba.com recently for my business and must say that so far I am extremely satisfied. I believe it is an amazing platform that connects people and creates great opportunities. I'm super happy so far and will definitely keep using it!

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March 13th, 2019
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We are really glad to say that the friendly cooperation with shenyang aerospace xinyang quick freezing equipment manufacturing co., ltd. for 15 years has never let us down. Your products are worthy of our trust, and your service is a good example for us to learn from.

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September 11th, 2019
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Alibaba has put my small business into a position to expand and grow, putting us in direct contact with the manufacturers and by doing so, saving us a lot of money! Alibaba has been a very crucial part of our business growth!

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May 9th, 2020

The sellers I've worked with are very responsive. The prices are good and the product received is exactly as expected. Received the order faster than with some other shippers. Overall it was a great experience and I will shop again with Alibaba.com.

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April 19th, 2020

Taking 7 days to resolve issues concerning clients and suppliers is too long. I think the ideal tome time should be 48 hours. It is unfair to block your money and wait for 7 days for a supplier to answer your query.

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January 7th, 2018

I spent $1800. 00, plus $745 in customs fees for a 1.5 Kw off grid solar generating system from Foshan Tanfon Energy through Alibaba. Now the system will not produce enough power to run an electric drill and Alibaba tells me it is too late to get any help.
I would not buy anything from Tanfon or Alibaba again.

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May 28th, 2021

I had an idea I wanted to develop a new product. Peter helped me do that and contributed to my idea with his engineering knowledge, he went above and beyond to help me and deserves recognition via this review.
Thank you Peter.

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August 26th, 2020

I like the services in this site, but some company will display a picture of their product looking good and nice but when you received them the package will look good but the quality is nothing, some waist Trainer I but was returned from by my customers.
Knowing very well that some of my goods come by Sea, it take 2-3 months before I received them, when
you received them you find out that the quality is poor, I can send them back or complain because is too late.

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September 9th, 2020

Very happy for buying with Nanjing Tiby, I was communicating with Cindy for about 2 months more or less, and she was very clear, always available to my different questions and requests, even if I was contacting her by night or the week-end. Honestly I have nothing to say, she was very patient with me, because it was my first order in Alibaba, and I did a mistake, I paid in dollars in stead of paying in euro, but she was still respectful and remained cool with me. I hope that I will order again with this company.
I do not understand the bad reviews...

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March 26th, 2019
Verified purchase

Nanchang Huayi Pens & Gifts is an excellent company.
I am giving this review five stars because of my experience with Karen and Nanchang Huayi. They are excellent, great to deal with, excellent product quality.

Alibaba
1. You need to improve the message center, and the most first things are to be able to organize suppliers into folders and get them out of the inbox. Also, we need to be able to delete messages. 2. Turn off the popups or at least give users the ability to turn them off.

If this review was only for Alibaba I would have given only four stars because the message center needs some improvements. But since Nanchang Huayi Pens & Gifts is such a good company I did not want this negatively impacting them.

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October 14th, 2019
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I love these towels! I purchased these towels thinking they were regular dish towel size. A lot larger than a regular dish cloth and they are amazing! We have been programmed to always have a larger dish towel for drying dishes, hands, etc but these towels work great. They are thick, well made and versatile. I haven't noticed any problem with them not absorbing up the water on my dishes or hands. I am sold on this product. I will be buying them again and again in the future!

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July 12th, 2020

This has been going on for half of year with a promise of a refund. What is the point of purchasing on Alibaba.com if I don't even have buyer protection. I followed all the steps your website wanted for a purchase now I'm wasting months and lots of time chasing for a refund! And what kind of service is this when management won't even step in. For such a big company this is absolutely disgusting customer service And I'm absolutely appalled!

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December 19th, 2019

I have so far made 3 purchases on Alibaba. Two were extremely good and for one the supplier was paid but did not ship product.

For the bad supplier Alibaba informed me the product had not shipped and provided information on how to contest payment.

I contacted the supplier with no response after 1 day and Alibaba refunded the payment.

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September 5th, 2018

I ordered a backhoe attachment for my tractor from Weifang RFD. I was careful and paid an extra $150 for an independent inspection and also hired a shipping broker to get it through customs. It arrived over two weeks late and with an extra $242 in shipping charges beyond the agreement. No book or instructions. I'm pretty experienced with machinery and was able to get it up and running, even though the connecting bar was too short and several parts needing filing and adapting. After just four hours of digging in light soil, the bolts on one of the bucket teeth sheared off and broke the tooth, and then the hydraulic cylinder that runs the boom suddenly bent. The metal was improperly hardened. Weifang tried to make me pay another $240 shipping to get replacement parts. I finally settled for a $200 refund from Weifang and $100 from Alibaba. I'm scrambling to find adapting parts so I can replace the cylinder, and nothing matches. My backhoe sits in my driveway useless. NEVER AGAIN!

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June 28th, 2019
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I ordered some weight vests from a supplier. In fact I have bought several hundred of them and spent 1000's of dollars and I told him 12, yes just 12 of them were the wrong color and he will not stand by his product and get me the right color or refund me the $ or offer some kind of credit. He insulted me with $70 and then $100. He lost a customer and gained bad reviews.

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March 23rd, 2020

These folks were fantastic from beginning to end supplying a battery for my RV. They texted me every step of the way and asked all the right questions to be sure I had the correct battery. In the end, they sent me a specification sheet and pictures for my battery during the build process to show it met my requirements. May I also note that I didn't expect to see this battery completed for quite a few months since it was during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Again, they exceeded my expectation and had the battery completed and to sent to me within a month. These are exceptional folks for sure! I highly recommend. (Steve\ Ohio - USA)

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July 4th, 2019
Verified purchase

This is my first order at Alibaba. We received the goods on time, 9 days with TNT in Romania in very good conditions. Lukina Shen from Dongguan Hongke Lighting Co., Ltd. helped me a lot to find the products I need. Very professional. Thank you. I recommend anyone who needs LEDs or led drivers etc. My first collaboration with Alibaba was excellent. In the future I will buy from them. With appreciation David M.

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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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