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Here Are The Weirdest Things You Can Buy On Alibaba's English Site

Jillian D'OnfroSep 19, 2014, 01:57 IST

After the biggest public offering in history, the enormous Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange Friday.

The two most popular Alibaba websites - Taobao and Tmall - are Chinese marketplaces and rather inaccessible if you don't know the language, but there's also Alibaba.com, an English site for sales between importers and exporters in more than 240 countries.

Alibaba.com has been known to sell different types of well-disguised counterfeit goods. Not only that, but a lot of the stuff on the site is just straight up bizarre or oddly labeled (we found quite a few normal products that for some reason had the phrase "hot" or "girl" tacked onto them).

We dug around Alibaba.com, and here are some of the gems we found: