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Chapter 6, Web Activities, Question 4

Question:

Enter www.alibaba.com. Identify the site's capabilities. Look at the site's private trading room. Write a report. How can such a site help a person who is making a purchase?

Answer:

www.alibaba.com is the world's largest online Business to Business (B2B) marketplace with almost a million registered users in its international marketplace. The B2B means that the buyers and sellers are business organizations. The major B2B applications are selling from catalogs and by forward auctions (the sell-side marketplace), buying in reverse auctions and in group and desktop purchasing (the buy-side market), and trading in electronic exchanges and hubs.

This website provides many types of of products and services from all over the world. It also provides useful advices and also chatting room for buyers and suppliers sharing their ideas and opinions. Most information provided by this website are up-to-date and true. Alibaba.com also provides Safe trading Tips, Trade Guide, Market Data and Security Bulletin. These features ease users on making transactions.




But online transactions is not always perfect. There are some disadvantages when doing business throug online. Some informations about products and services are not always true. When we already paid for products that we want to purchase, sometimes the products are not being delivered or sent to us.

In conclusion, this website helps users a lot.