Now that you’ve discovered the oasis that is baopals, you can bathe in the sweet comfort of knowing you won't have to deal directly with Taobao or Tmall – we handle that hot mess.
Nonetheless, your baopals shopping is made possible by these ecommerce juggernauts, and you might want to know what they’re all about! So allow us to give you the rundown. We’ll focus on size, because sometimes size does matter.
And before we begin, numbers like these can be hard to comprehend. For example, if you were to count to a million - one number each second - it would take you 11 and a half days. Any idea how long it would take to count to a billion? 31 years, 251 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds. Yeah, a billion is a whole lot bigger than a million.
Here are the ridiculously big numbers:
$272.7 billion
Fiscal 2013 sales volume on Taobao and Tmall. For comparison, Amazon did $74.4 billion for fiscal 2013. eBay’s fiscal 2013 sales were $16 billion. Side note: eBay actually entered China in 2002. Taobao launched in 2003. Let’s see how that worked out for everyone:
In 2005, Jack Ma said, “eBay may have deep pockets. But we will cut a hole in their pockets.”
760 million products listed.
8.5 million active sellers.
334 million active buyers in 190 countries.
60 million daily visitors.
48 thousand items sold per minute.
5 billion packages delivered through Taobao and Tmall transactions.
$9.3 billion in sales made in 24 hours during 2014 Singles Day.
27.4% of sales from mobile shoppers.
With the incredible growth and absurd amount of business they’ve seen, and continue to see, you can rest assured that the behemoth of Taobao and Tmall are here to stay. And baopals will be here to help you ride that glorious train!
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