I have to come back to this post to explain some more facts:


Originally Posted by Kwill212

Honest questions here Chris, do you think the entirety of the optical market buys the crap they sell on alibaba and marks it up 20000%? Do you think we all have reps come in an manage our frames and do frame exchanges all day long with unlimited no questions asked warranties? Do you think the entire industry buys from 3rd party distributors instead of from companies that have their own factories? There are eyeglasses made outside of China you know.
Alibaba is a business that carries advertisements for whoever that pays for it, and adheres to the rules of presentation.

That is why the site has reached into the best ranking five commercial websites on the internet.

It has the following rankings: which are among the highest you can get:

Alexa: 168
Google: 32,500,000
Bing: 10,800,000
The best of the best manufacturers world wide advertise there, as well as probably the worst of the bad ones.

So you can not make a one way judgement in favor of the inferior ones.

These advertisers also publish the net selling price, for the minimum as well as higher quantity value discounts.

Furthermore the site is open to whoever who wants to visit and see the commercial domain they are interested in.

Now, anybody can see what a product is worth at the manufacturing level, and or figure out an average cost between the lower and higher prices of hundreds of manufacturers pricing world wide.

The consumer has now an easy way of figuring out a gross
profit made on any product or a similar one, sold in the conventional retail trade, and its close value at source, and plan his purchase accordingly.


.....................just some food for thought