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Re:All the Western companies you’d have to combine to get so... by nichtich on Thursday May 08, 2014 @09:57PM (#7718906)
My experience: using paypal is so confusing for me, compared to alipay. And ebay makes you uncomfortable and doubting your purchase decision more than taobao.

I think it partially explains Alibaba's success in China. how you do shopping and paying is very much dependent on the "tradition" and regulation environment, and a local company can optimize that better than a global one.

Aliexpress is a mess though, i agree with that. But I think the language barrier faced by the shop owners there may be the biggest problem.

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Re:All the Western companies you’d have to combine to get so... by sp332 on Thursday May 08, 2014 @10:06PM (#7718929)
Fraud is so rampant, that all of Paypal's competitors were either more worrisome or got defrauded to death. Paypal found the very narrow area where you can be careful enough to be profitable without chasing away all of your customers.
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