Alibaba vs AliExpress: Which Is Best for Dropshipping?

hey what is up guys it's brennan here and today we're going to be comparing alibaba versus aliexpress what's the difference between the two and which one is best for drop shipping so taking a look here at alibaba and aliexpress the main difference between the two platforms well for one they're both owned by the alibaba group now alibaba is primarily a b2b platform or business to business whereas aliexpress is primarily a b2c platform which also means business to consumer if you're not familiar with the terminology there so that's the basic difference between the two platforms whereas one is meant more for wholesale transactions with alibaba being the more designed for wholesale transactions and aliexpress is more designed for ordinary customers just buying one-off products now we're gonna be taking a look and doing a deep dive on both of them really what suits best for you and what your specific scenario is so like i said before alibaba more for wholesale aliexpress more for individual customers another key difference too as well is that aliexpress because they sell primarily the manufactured products that you can buy one off is the shipping generally doesn't take as long whereas alibaba has more manufacturing and takes quite a bit more time because you're ordering more in bulk more wholesale so the shipping times are going to be a little bit longer we're going to be getting into the specifics in just a little bit here now does alibaba own aliexpress so like i said before as well alibaba group owns both alibaba.com as well as aliexpress although they do have a little bits of differences between the two and things you should definitely know about before deciding on which platform you want to use especially if you're going to be getting into drop shipping so the next thing as well is that the products you sell will primarily drive the decision between the two we're going to be looking at specific product examples as well so hold tight if you're wanting to see well what type of products are on aliexpress versus what types of products are in alibaba we're going to get to that in just a little bit so that is the key differences right off the bat especially with the pricing as well so the other thing to consider as well is the minimum order requirements which we're going to go ahead and pull up a couple of example products as well just as a quick look so you can kind of get an idea of what i mean so let's go ahead and look at uh let's just say well women's fashion is right here so let's go ahead and just take a look at that so women's clothing uh let's say uh floral black well actually let's go ahead and try a different category let's just go to jewelry uh men's watches okay something simple pretty simple right men's watches and then comparative to alibaba uh some of the most popular items let's say a sofa set so maybe furniture something like that those are two good examples to that really demonstrate each of the platforms so alibaba more the wholesale side of things more larger more bulk items that you can order uh so the minimum order quantities uh for some of these larger items are going to be just one piece you can do a minimum order for larger products uh such as luxury uh furniture designs and but typically with some of the other smaller items say if you were to to search for jewelry on on alibaba you're typically going to have to order a higher minimum order so you can see this one has six some of them are only one but see this one is 50. so that's their minimum order requirement for for this item right here for this design pendant so it really just depends on what types of products that you're looking at as to what the minimum order quantities would be within alibaba now if you take a look at aliexpress it's designed for consumers so you can order just a one-off item and you're not having to order in bulk if you're ordering from aliexpress which depending on what type of drop shipping you're doing uh then it could be good for you if you just want to order a one-off item you don't have to order any kind of bulk orders and you could ship it directly to the customer and we're going to be getting into exactly how you can drop ship with aliexpress and how to drop ship with alibaba later on in the video so if you're curious on how exactly to do that i'm going to be showing you an example software that can help you get started with that so with aliexpress you can do these one-off orders which is nice and it's more consumer-friendly you don't have to necessarily commit to doing more of a wholesale bulk order which is typically what you're gonna need to do within alibaba now of course if you were to scale up over time maybe let's say for example you find a piece of jewelry that you could sell on your drop shipping store in aliexpress it does well for you then of course over time you could always scale up and try and find a manufacturer for a similar product or more or less the same thing on alibaba and then get a better amount of orders as well some sort of uh song playing for the jewelry thing there so it's just a comparison there between the two platforms if you if you need necessarily certain products uh then you might need to go to alibaba now the other thing to consider as well is obviously the shipping cost so the shipping will vary quite a bit from seller to seller on alibaba because as you saw before especially with some of these home products uh some of the couches it might be kind of expensive to ship some of these products because they are large and more bulky uh despite the fact that they only need one uh one piece minimum order whereas things dali express typically a little bit smaller more consumer friendly so the shipping costs are typically free on aliexpress where with alibaba you typically do have to pay additional money for shipping the other comparison too is is uh business to business only alibaba is more designed for business to business use whereas aliexpress it can be open to consumers so anyone who wants to look for a single one-off product then they could get something on aliexpress as far as the buyer protections there's a level of buyer protections on both platforms but generally you're gonna run into less of those type of issues on aliexpress because it is more consumer-facing whereas with alibaba you are more interacting directly with manufacturers and wholesalers so it's a little bit more due diligence as far as finding the right kind of suppliers within alibaba that you want to screen for when you're looking for specific suppliers along with the production time what what the shipping time you could expect sometimes and this really varies a lot from supplier to supplier typically the lead times are going to be a little bit longer on alibaba maybe even well over a month whereas with aliexpress same thing could happen as well as the over a month period but sometimes it can be as low as just a week it really just depends on the supplier you can get stuff pretty fast actually on aliexpress with some of the suppliers that even have a us fulfillment uh if you're shipping within the us there are some of those available within aliexpress but it is a little bit more limited of course even if you compare it directly to alibaba but you can generally expect a little bit faster shipping times with aliexpress than what you could expect in general with alibaba because it's more bulk order more wholesale so moving along of course the list as well now the easy use between the two i'd say they're not too bad although i would say that aliexpress is a little bit easier to use uh compared to alibaba alibaba is a little bit more tricky to use you kind of have to communicate directly with the manufacturers so there's a little bit more of a learning curve if you're getting into drop shipping with alibaba versus aliexpress drop shipping so much easier just even using aliexpress in general it's a super easy process it's just as similar as buying anything else you would online it's a really seamless process in a direct comparison there now as far as drop shipping and how to get set up with this of course the products that you want to sell will typically drive the decision between uh if you want to choose aliexpress or alibaba like i said the couches or if you need to get more bulk order quantities uh then you know you if you want to go more bulk and more wholesale go with alibaba if you just want to do one-off tests then maybe aliexpress might be a better solution for you really just depends on your specific use case scenario take a look at the products of course definitely take a look for yourself at what products you think would best fit your store what you want to sell then that's going to be your option there really just depends on your specific scenario now if you want to get set up with alibaba drop shipping or aliexpress drop shipping i would definitely recommend the tool spock it there's gonna be a link below down in the description box will be the first link in the description you can get over to spock it now what is spock it so they're a drop shipping platform and they actually let you get set up with both alibaba drop shipping or aliexpress drop shipping they have integrations for both platforms if you're looking to do drop shipping then you can get set up with spocket so you can see they have integrations across shopify wix woocommerce bigcommerce squarespace ecwid and felix so and alibaba and ali scraper so alibaba clearly obviously it lets you do the alibaba drop shipping and ali scraper is the tool for aliexpress drop shipping i do have a full other video review on this platform on the channel if you go ahead and check that out but this is a good option if you want to get set up with drop shipping on either of these two platforms obviously the aliexpress drop shipping you can import the products directly into your drop shipping store and connect it to different ecommerce platforms such as shopify it's really the most popular platform for drop shipping so i definitely would say shopify is probably the best setup if you're going to be doing drop shipping with these platforms and really just compare the different products like what works best for you what do you really want to do uh you could optimize and import products which by importing the products it's just gonna make it a lot simpler and easier uh to get started with selling so that's why i recommend using a tool like spock it or even some of the other drop shipping tools that are available on the market it'll definitely get you set up and just a lot easier of a setup as far as getting started as a beginner so that's really it for today's video guys if you enjoyed the comparison between aliexpress and alibaba be sure to smash that like button hit the subscribe button as well and the notification bell so you're notified whenever i upload a new video but anyway guys that is all for today's video so i will see you in 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Channel: Brennan Valeski

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Length: 11min 4sec (664 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 20 2021