Taobao free commitment to expire in October whether the charges are doubtful

I do not know if anyone remembers that October 2003, in the face of the 90% market share of the big shot "ebay", Alibaba's Taobao to free 5 years of the slogan into a competitive c2c e-commerce field. Free strategy to help Taobao in 3 years to defeat ebay to become the domestic c2c E-commerce market boss, 2007 Taobao turnover has reached 43.3 billion yuan. Now, away from Taobao's free commitment to expire less than one months of time, whether Taobao will turn to full fees have no clear answer.

Since October 25, 2006, the full use of Taobao products Alipay, there are more and more consumers for Taobao free to issue questions, in their view, the full use of Alipay caused by the accumulation of "dormant funds" will bring great benefits to Taobao. Because payment by Alipay, some users are not used after a period of time, will produce a part of the "dormant user", these user accounts will have a part of the funds, this part of the "dormant funds" exist Alipay account. And as the payment process "dormant" funds as if tumbling snowball, will be larger and bigger, for Alipay accumulation of large sums of money. and whether the funds are invested by Alibaba, or the use of deposit proceeds, Taobao has never told consumers.

Alibaba Group, said in Thursday, has been Taobao and specializes in internet advertising trading business Ali mother merged. Meanwhile, Alibaba Group CFO Tsai said that only by advertising revenue Taobao may be profitable, but recently let Taobao profit is not Alibaba Group's operating objectives. Profit is not the primary goal of corporate strategy, the company hopes to expand market penetration, so that its healthy development. But Tsai declined to say whether Taobao will charge fees from next month. For Taobao and Ali Mother's merger, Tsai said, the merger of Taobao and Ali mother Taobao merchants can contact more buyers or sellers, and Ali Mom's network publishers can also get more advertising revenue.