Operationally buyers use Alibaba to find potential suppliers, thereby eliminating the need to hire a local representative to negotiate with Chinese manufacturers. For example, an enterprising company in Argentina looking to buy 500 DVD players can visit Alibaba.com, search among the dozens of potential suppliers, learn their terms of trade, contact the preferred vendor, negotiate the specifics, and set the deal in motion. Said the confounder of www.meetchina.com, a similar e-commerce site, “We want to make buying 1000 bicycles from China as easy as buying a book from Amazon.com.”