Ezbuy

Ezbuy (previously known as 65daigou) is a e-commerce company founded in Singapore.[3]

Ezbuy
EZbuy Holdings Limited
TypePrivate Company
Industrye-commerce
FoundedYear 2010[1]
FounderWendy Liu
Headquarters51 Tai Seng Avenue,#05-02 Pixel Red (Lobby C) Singapore 533941,
Singapore
Area served
Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.
Key people
Wendy Liu (CEO)
Number of employees
Around 500 to 1000 employees.[2]
Websiteezbuy.sg (Singapore)

ezbuy.my (Malaysia)

ezbuy.co.th (Thailand)

History

While studying for master's degree in part-time in Singapore's university and working a full-time job, Wendy Liu and her team founded the company and launch the website on year 2010 in Singapore, and named the company as 65daigou. The company later renamed as Ezbuy on year 2016.[4][5]

Service

Ezbuy provides the service for consumers to make order on Ezbuy website or app, and Ezbuy will purchase the goods from Taobao or other website and deliver the goods to the consumer. The company purchase and handle orders for their consumers on websites from Japan, Taiwan, United States, and China.[6]

Incident

On 11 November 2017, Alibaba Group closed more than 1000 Taobao accounts which belongs to Ezbuy on the 11.11 sale festival day. The closed account was used by Ezbuy to purchase products on Taobao e-commerce website. It resulted in many services on Ezbuy to stopped. Alibaba Group claimed that Ezbuy's business practice was an act of scalping and is unfair to Alibaba's customers. One of the Ezbuy founder, He Jian, responded to Alibaba Group's claim by writing an open letter to Alibaba Group's founder, Jack Ma, and accused Alibaba Group for bullying in the letter.[7][8]

References
  1. https://ezbuy.sg/AboutUs
  2. https://sg.linkedin.com/company/ezbuy
  3. "ezbuy - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  4. Sek, Victoria (2018-08-13). "Meet The Woman Behind Ezbuy - From 'Taobao Agent' To e-Commerce Giant In Its Own Right". Vulcan Post. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  5. "Business spats, irresponsible startups and the future of brick-and-mortar retail: ezbuy CEO Wendy Liu goes On the Record". CNA. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  6. "Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem". www.techinasia.com. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  7. Chao, Jerry (2017-12-11). "Angry CEO & his Ezbuy". The Low Down - Momentum Works. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  8. hermesauto (2017-12-18). "ezbuy ends its Taobao buy-for-me services, says it has cleared backlog of orders". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
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