Posted by samzenpus in Technology • 2015-Jan-29 22:05 • View
hackingbear writes China’s State Administration of Industry and Commerce on Wednesday issued a scathing report against one of the country’s biggest stars, accusing e-commerce giant Alibaba of failing to do enough to prevent fake goods from being sold on its websites. SAIC said Alibaba allowed “illegal advertising” that misled consumers with false claims about low prices and other details. It claims some Alibaba employees took bribes and the company failed to deal effectively with fraud. Alibaba fired back with charges of bias and misconduct by accusing the SAIC official in charge of Internet monitoring, Liu Hongliang, of unspecified “procedural misconduct” and warned it will file a formal complaint. Such public defiance is almost unheard of in China. Apparently, Alibaba has long attained the too big to fail status.
I.I.R.C. Alibaba recently conducted one of the world’s biggest I.P.O.
So there’s that… gotta do anything it takes to reassure the shareholders and avoid sinking in the stock market.
A seller is responsible for his own action, Alibaba cannot possibly regulate each and every sale as there are millions of those, what they can do is ban those pesky sellers once they are reported selling fake goods, One way is to read feedback comments, I never purchase anything from a seller if he has less than 1-3 diamonds in ratings (idk what else to call that) , the feedback from recent buyers also helps.
Wait…what, is China actually worried about copying and selling copied products? (ooooh internally aka infighting amongst actually manufacturers who go ther designs from somewhere else and dudes who swiped THEIR designs and stuff) Next thing you know they will have an EPA and OSHA over there snicker
China is too large to regulate everyone. Alibaba is too large to regulate every seller, not mentioning having to check whether the products are fake or authentic. Ebay, the same, there are just too many sellers.
Much like there are so many threads on BLF that probably no one reads through all the posts
What we can do: stop buying goods that are too cheap to be true. Don’t support the sales of the fakes.
I like the idea of an extended window, but in practice, I think this means more scamming buyers, thus a combination of fewer good ebay sellers and higher prices.
Yes, take that gold dust, it doesn’t have to be a total loss, i hear there are some primitive cultures that consider it to be quite valuable.
I always think chinese merchants think if they believe it then customers also will
