Alibaba guru extols the Chinese fakes: "Best of those with the brand"
"The problem is that the fake products today, have better quality and are cheaper than those who have the mark" Jack Ma, Alibaba guru said yesterday.
China's largest portal of e-commerce has been repeatedly accused of being indifferent to the offering for sale of products that mimic the original: and do nothing to halt the trade.
However the words Alibaba boss left aftermath. In fact the official disapproval of the Director of the Centre for Research on e-commerce Hangzhou Cao She promptly arrived. "For a few specific cases it may be true, but it is wrong to generalize the phenomenon" also "is inappropriate for someone of Jack's caliber But to say things like that."
In a report last January, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) said that many products sold through Taobao and Alibaba platform violated luxury brand.
The Chinese portal currently has a staff of approximately 2 thousand people who are employed to solve the problem of fakes on its platform but, as stated by its president, "We can not solve one hundred percent the problem because it's like fighting a human instinct. But we can always better to solve it than any other organization in the world.