Alibabacom is somewhat crippled, in that the developers buried some features. For example, finding your favorites is not easy. Sometimes features on Alibabacom seem to be absent.
The website is better, although both the website and Alibabacom seriously overlook certain things. For example:
1. You should be able to sort your favorites list by vendor, price, date, name, manually etc. Just like any other search.
2. On their messenger, and they have a little pop-up field where you can type in your reply. Unfortunately you cannot see the entire string. So if you have to refer back to previous messages while you were typing, you cannot do this. It’s very inconvenient.
3. I try to sort vendors using a folder for each vendor, but not all the named vendor folders appear, only the first two !
4. I cannot easily load a cart to ask vendors for a quote on a range of items they are offering. Alibaba’s method is very convoluted; definitely unfriendly to the buyer.
I cannot imagine the complexity of writing an app such as this one. Although I sympathize, Alibaba is nowhere near as easy for the buyer as eBay’s website and app.