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The ambitions of 360Buy, China’s second-largest B2C e-commerce site, to get into the logistics business seem to have back-fired somewhat. The courier company Shentong Express – a delivery partner, and now also a potential rival – has decided to partially boycott 360Buy by refusing to carry items to the e-tailer’s delivery centers. 360Buy confirmed the move, saying to the Global Times:
Shentong has been informing our suppliers it will stop delivering their goods to 360buy’s allocating centers during the past few days and has stopped their services since Monday [October 15]. We are still trying to find out the reasons.
But Shentong Express will still carry out the final leg of 360Buy’s packages – from delivery centers to consumers’ homes. Shentong’s VP, Liu Rongkun, told the paper – and gave the reason:
We will continue to deliver parcels directly from suppliers to consumers for 360buy.com. But as for the parcels that are sent to 360buy.com by suppliers, we will not deliver them to its allocating centers, since [360Buy] has already got the delivery license from the State Post Bureau in June.
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