Alibaba.com bought Auctiva?

[Babyboy]

Recieved an email today that Alibaba.com has bought Auctiva, any ideas on how that will affect buying on Alibaba and selling on eBay?

Interesting. I heard a rumor that Paypal had an underhanded motive for becoming an accepted form of payment on Alibaba. I wonder if any of these are true, and if so, how it all inter-relates.

[sax4]

Yep they also bought Vendio. Could be good for EBay sellers?

[nobody999]

why would that be good for ebay sellers?

[jeffweico]

I know that when Alibaba bought Vendio, the eBay data set of past sales was very attractive to them. I don't know about auctiva.

Could this be a way for Chinese sellers to quickly analyze what is selling on eBay and for how much, and then bulk post listings for items through Auctiva?

That would suck in a lot of ways.

[rcdrivertim]

I always disliked Auctiva's management and how they ran their site...Maybe Alibaba will run them better...Doubt it but.....

[rock45]

Originally Posted by Vicvelcro

Interesting. I heard a rumor that Paypal had an underhanded motive for becoming an accepted form of payment on Alibaba. I wonder if any of these are true, and if so, how it all inter-relates.

as far as i know. paypal became one of the accepted payment method on aliexpress since May

[oge]

Vic you look like your in stealth mode how did you do that?

[rsot]

Don't derail the thread oge =P

[Babyboy]

I think it is interesting to say the least. It should be common knowledge to everyone including eBay and PayPal that many VERO items are sold on Aliexpress, but now Aliexpress is being marketed to all the eBay sellers using Auctiva as a means for product sourcing. With this being known already and PayPal an accepted method of payment, then when the account limitation comes asking for supplier information will an invoice from Aliexpress.com pass as accepted or not? Or will they have a list of items we can't buy from there to resell?

If allowed then I just have to figure out how to deal with the SSN verification issue.