AliExpress and Alibaba belong to the same parent company “Alibaba Group”. They are both China-based eCommerce platforms. How are they different? Aliexpress is a retail site for individual buyers while Alibaba is a B2B (business-to-business) platform for wholesale orders.
HOW TO BUY ON AMAZON
With its user-friendly website, you are able to navigate and make choices from over 606 million products.
HOW TO BUY ON ALIEXPRESS
Aliexpress has over 100 million products on its platform giving users numerous options to choose from. Related Article: How to pay for goods on AliExpress using M-PESA
HOW TO BUY ON ALIBABA
This is a site for wholesalers who buy in bulk to resell in Nigeria or anywhere else. Alibaba also offers a wide array of products. Related Article: What is Alipay, Alibaba’s payment system?
Shipping to Nigeria
Third-party logistics companies
You can make use of other logistics companies to ship your products to Nigeria within a shorter period of time and at a more affordable rate. To do this; use the address of your preferred logistics company and they will be responsible for getting your products into the country. Individual buyers who need the products urgently can make use of these logistics companies. Even though waiting for the normal delivery time usually takes a long time, it is quite cheap, compared to using third-party logistics companies. If you can afford to wait that long, cool. If you can’t, then you just have to use the third-party logistics companies.
