What Alibaba can do to stop SCAM - follow EC21

Today I received an e-mail from another B2B trade portal who was open and honest enough to admit to the amount of fraud in Intl Trade, and specifically, on their website. Here it is:


Dear James Wxxxxxxx

In 2007, we hope that all of the members prosper along with EC21 service.

This year, EC21 completed 10 years of successful existence and trust. For the last 10 years, EC21 has been providing useful services to buyers and sellers to grow their business. At this outset, we thank all our members for the continued support and encouragement that has boosted EC21 to become one of the most popular and trusted B2B brand.

However, with the increasing number of fraud cases on the Internet, the number of fraudulent transactions on EC21 has been also been increasing. This is why we decided to implement strict policy to prevent increasing number of fraud cases. In order to make EC21 more trustworthy and credible website, from now onwards, we will strictly block websites, product listing, and trade leads of the fraud members with no exceptions and develop more sophisticated policies to keep frauds away from EC21 site.

We promise you to make EC21 reliable and truthful website in the coming years and seek your valuable support and cooperation to fulfill this promise. .

What's New


To become more credible and trustworthy website and to protect the intellectual property rights of registered brands. EC21 has decided to take following action. Commencing March 2nd, use of existing registered brands without legal permission will be strictly prohibited on EC21 site.

For example, Product Catalogues and Trade leads who are using names of well known registered brands such as Nike, Jordan, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Channel will be denied by our filtering system. Denied products and trade leads will neither be displayed on members¡¯ website nor in EC21¡¯s search result pages.

Hence, we request all our members to carefully read and understand new policy and if required, please do the necessary changes/modifications in your products and trade leads information. Thank you in advance for your cooperation in making EC21 a better trading platform.



What do you think about their statement against fraud? Do you think Alibaba will or should follow suit?

regards,
James
WDC Intl Inc

Thats a great example Obiwii! all b2b websites should follow this example

hmm interesting and very just step by EC21

Great move by Ec21

Is EC21 got legit suppliers? I am thinking of buying some electronics from a supplier there.

Well there are lot of scam suppliers on Ec21 too but atleast they are better than Alibaba.

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Not only Alibaba but every B2B portal should follow this.

wow this is interesting! I think Ec21 is a good b2b website than alibaba

Originally Posted by Unregistered wow this is interesting! I think Ec21 is a good b2b website than alibaba

I think what is interesting is trying to buy Nike, Jordan, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Channel cheap, knowing that it's fake. But we call it replica.

To me what is isteresting is when all these B2B sites provide independant legal assistance to scam victim, for free. Then they'll realise and do something when they receive their bill.

Ec21 is ok, but sometimes I have problem to find right supplier, I prefer another business searcher momoway and its layout.