I see some frenzy when a site has a password to see it.
By all means investigate, but let me give you some info before you dig.
I saw a thread that I can't find now about some connections to shipping and a "cheap plastic crap" company. Novelties and toys. Some balls if I remember. (CTN stands for Carton BTW. This was a lot of balls)
The person was convinced something was afoot because this business has a password and won't let you see what they sell.
Like I said, maybe, but this is standard.
I was a buyer at a pretty big store and I would not buy from a non password protected site if I could help it.
What they are hiding is wholesale prices. Prices that are sometimes so low that if regular customers saw them it would make them mad at the retail establishment.
If a wholesale place shows everyone their prices you can be damn sure that you can buy it cheaper somewhere else.
Now for investigating a place... try to find something that this company does NOT carry. https://m.alibaba.com/
Start with hammers and work your way up to life size, internally heated, sex dolls.
For a company called Alibaba, it's weird that you'll need to know Mandarin to get very far up the ladder.
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norobotono ago
Alibaba is just like Ebay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group
GrislyAddams ago
Not exactly. If you have a sales tax and use permit you have different access and prices.
Upvoats for everyone though
norobotono ago
Yes, but I was merely simplifying it rather than getting into the technicalities of why it is different to ebay.
It's still an online buying and selling market regardless of who the buyers and sellers are.
GrislyAddams ago
Yes, but its differences are what make it suspect to me. If you need credentials to be a wholesale buyer with some of the sellers then it stands to possibility that other credentials might open secret doors. Admittedly, this is speculation. However, there is a strong link, in child trafficking, to international shipping and China in particular.