Alibaba.com is China's biggest e-commerce site, dominating 80 percent of China's online shopping sales, according to the Wall Street Journal. Also according to the WSJ, sales on its online sites were $248 billion in 2013, more than eBay and Amazon.com combined.
Yet some of the items for sale on the site are quite unusual, and not the average fare of Amazon or Ebay. Below are some examples. See more examples here.
Images: Alibaba.com
A herd of pregnant cows
A rectum analysis machine, for those times when home rectum analysis seems like the best plan
A delightful mask (perfect for wearing during home rectum analysis)
A wax likeness of Steve Jobs
In the 1970s, I was already a bargain hunter in high school, and I'd find clothing for really cheap prices by mail order from Asia... but you had to buy at least a dozen of anything to get those prices. I became a bit of a hustler, wearing one cool dress and selling the others to anyone who admired it. You could do that in a small town with no fashion-forward stores. I would also custom-embroider clothes and make a tidy profit for a kid.