Best Global Online Selling Sites

Here are the best sites to sell online around the world:

AliExpress

Founded in 2010, AliExpress is Alibaba’s cross-border ecommerce marketplace, with users from over 230 countries and nearly 20 million visitors daily. Users of the platform can sell to individual people or businesses, whether they are manufacturing products or adding an AliExpress dropshipping model to their online store.

AliExpress takes between 5% and 8% of commission fees for each transaction, depending on your product category. Otherwise, there are no overhead or arrangement fees to sell on the platform.

Taobao

Taobao began as an online selling site like eBay, in 2003, and has become the largest online marketplace in the world. 

OTTO 

Otto is the second biggest online selling site in Germany, with a focus on fashion and lifestyle products. It grew from a post-war mail-order company selling just 28 types of shoes to a brand with over 1,000 employees and annual turnover of $61 million by 1959.

Today, over 90% of OTTO’s products are sold online, including branded products and goods from third-party retailers. The marketplace has nearly 9.4 million active customers and is second only to Amazon in the country. 

Rakuten

Rakuten is a massive marketplace based out of Japan that provides ecommerce, banking, communications services, and more. Although its competitor PayPay Mall sees more monthly traffic, some sources claim Rakuten is the market leader by sales. Similar to marketplaces like Amazon, you can sell in endless product categories, including clothing, books, sports, subscription boxes, and more.

To date, Rakuten has over 50,000 merchants and 115 million global customers. Businesses who want to sell on Rakuten need to be registered in the United States or Japan, otherwise, you’ll have to use a service partner and apply through them. 

Mercado Libre

Mercado Libre is the most popular ecommerce marketplace in Latin America, serving over 18 countries, from Mexico to Argentina. It’s the best place to sell merchandise online if these are key markets for your business. 

Flipkart

Flipkart started as an online bookstore in 2007 and has become the largest online selling site in India. Retailers can sell anything on Flipkart, including consumer elections, fashion, home essentials, groceries, and lifestyle products.

A direct Amazon competitor, Walmart-backed Flipkart continues to lead ecommerce market share in India. During the mid-October to mid-November 2020 holiday season, Flipkart comprised 66% of all gross merchandise value recorded by ecommerce firms, according to recent news. If you want to break into the Indian market, Flipkart is the best online selling site for your business. 

MyDeal 

MyDeal is an Australian marketplace offering over one million products across 3,500 categories, welcoming over 5.4 million visitors per month. It’s strictly a marketplace, meaning it doesn’t sell products of its own, only those from third-party sellers.

While you can sell products in various categories, the platform tends to focus on furniture, homewares, and other big items. MyDeal doesn’t offer any fulfillment services, so sellers must coordinate their own shipping or use an outside logistics company.