Netease to Close Online Luxury Mall
Sina Tech, 12/28/11
Chinese Internet firm Netease (Nasdaq: NTES) has announced that as of January 1, 2012, its subsidiary luxury goods B2C e-commerce site L.163.com will cease operations and the L.163.com domain name will discontinue service.
Netease stated that after-sales services will continue to be offered on all products sold on L.163.com, and products can be returned up until January 15, 2012.
Editor's Note: For more information on this topic, please see "Netease Launches Online Luxury Mall," MD 1/18/11 issue.