#1432 - Q&A: Help! I’m still overwhelmed with buying products on Alibaba
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
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🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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A recent Classroom episode covered the basics of buying products for resale on Alibaba—but this listener is still confused. Let’s clear up the confusion!
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| 0:34.8 | A recent class from episode covered the basics of buying products for resale on Alibaba. |
| 0:40.2 | But this listener is still confused. So let's clear up the confusion. |
| 0:44.5 | Welcome to Side Us All School. My name is Chris Gellibau. Now as a refresher, if you're just joining |
| 0:48.4 | us, if you don't know what Alibaba is, Alibaba is the largest marketplace in the world. |
| 0:53.4 | Yes, that includes Amazon. You go to Alibaba.com. You can find just about anything there |
| 0:58.6 | from big booty jeans to live sheep. In fact, we covered listings for both of those items. |
| 1:04.4 | And many more in the aforementioned Classroom episode number 1402. |
| 1:09.3 | Now in that episode, I was talking about sourcing products using Alibaba. |
| 1:13.1 | How can you buy something from an overseas manufacturer and then resell it? |
| 1:16.6 | In that episode, I also talked briefly about Alibaba Express, which is a little bit different |
| 1:20.8 | from Alibaba. That is part of this listener's confusion. So totally understandable why this could |
| 1:25.9 | be confusing. But let's clear it up. We'll do that right after this quick message from our sponsor. |
| 1:42.5 | Hi, Chris. This is Brian from Denver. I listened to an episode on sourcing products from Alibaba. |
| 1:48.2 | I got really excited. But when I went to look at the site, I felt seriously overwhelmed. |
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