Heart-breaking news of tainted milks and tainted Lehman Bothers’ minibonds has already caused enough damage in 2008. Our health is in jeopardy and our life-long savings got evaporated in a few seconds. We start to question if there’s any check-and-balance system that can protect us from being exploited by unscrupulous businessmen.

Early September, we put up a post – “Alibaba axes black sheeps” to warn our users of being cautious in dealing with a batch of unreliable suppliers. In the last few days, Alibaba takes another step to extend its surveillance service by launching a “Blacklist Companies“ campaign online.  

 

In response to intellectual property infringement and fraudulent conduct complaints submitted in accordance with our take-down policy, we take down thousands of product listings each year. In addition, we blacklist suppliers that continue to be subject to substantiated take-down notices and fail to live up to the expectations of our member community. We remove all listings of blacklisted companies, terminate their memberships and ban them from our marketplace permanently.

 

Alibaba's Blacklist

Alibaba's Blacklist

 

We believe it’s a good move and it ties to what we have discussed in “Alibaba flowing with tide” post.

 

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