Many of us know aliexpress as that Chinese site where we import goods at very low price, but not many know that Aliexpress is an offshoot of alibaba. today the company has announced an all time single days sales record of a whooping $5.7billion, beating its last years record of about $3.7billion. and the company is a privately owned, based in eastern china province of Hanghou with over 24,000 employee. a lot of Nigerians do their online shopping from Aliexpress owing to its low price items. virtually every items you can think of is obtainable their and in some cases they offer free shipping services to many countries including Nigeria. they have been operational since 2009 and they are known by the escrow service they offer to protects their clients. in case you don't know what escrow services mean; escrow service is a process whereby buyers cash is held away from the sellers, until the buyer has confirmed that he/she has received the goods they purchased in good condition before the money is remitted to the sallers.
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