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

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Nope, not a meat suit.

Happy Singles' Day!

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Every year, China celebrates November 11 as a sort of "anti-Valentine's Day," and retailers across the country have turned it into a huge shopping event, offering deep-discounts and flash sales.

Alibaba in particular has created a 24-hour shopping bonanaza that surpasses US events like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Thanksgiving in online sales.

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This year, Alibaba's sales hit $2 billion in a single hour on Singles' Day.

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.

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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: