What Xianyu is
Xianyu is Alibaba Group’s marketplace for pre-owned goods and a lifestyle community. Established in 2014, it is described by the group as one of its strategic innovation businesses. The Alibaba Group business profile calls it China’s leading secondhand trading platform: it began with C2C trading of secondhand, idle, and other long-tail products and later expanded into sharing skills and services, combining goods, services, trading, and social interaction. Its official web portal is goofish.com; the mobile app is the primary client.
Main features and services
Listings span phones and electronics, clothing, appliances, books, collectibles and toys, skills and services, and more; the web portal also runs interest channels such as anime goods, vouchers, fishing, and photography. Services listed on the group’s business profile include recycling of idle goods, the “Yanhuobao” product-inspection service, a credit-score system, and a topic-based trading and discussion feature called the “Seafood Market” (海鲜市场). The profile also notes a carbon-reduction quantification methodology that makes emissions savings per transaction measurable. Service rules are governed by Xianyu’s official in-app documentation.
Discussion in the show
In Weekly #002’s chapter “健康数据与日常记录：有用与隐私的边界” (“Health data and daily logging: usefulness versus privacy”), while discussing how he purchased a recording device, Juzi (orange) said that if you use the Luyindou daily, you can buy a brand-new one on Xianyu that comes with six months of Feishu membership — a personal note on Xianyu as a channel for buying new electronics, not an official statement. See the episode 002 chapter in the Chinese transcript; an English transcript is not available.
Frequently asked questions
What is Xianyu and who runs it?
It is Alibaba Group’s marketplace for pre-owned goods and lifestyle community, established in 2014, where users trade secondhand items as well as skills and services. See the Alibaba Group business profile.
Where is the Xianyu web portal?
The official web portal is goofish.com, usable directly in a browser; the full feature set remains in the Xianyu mobile app.
What is Yanhuobao (验货宝)?
It is a product-inspection service on the platform: in supported transactions, the item is inspected before the deal completes. Eligible categories and detailed rules follow Xianyu’s official documentation.
What should I watch out for when buying secondhand on Xianyu?
Beyond checking the listing and the seller’s credit, prefer platform protections such as the Yanhuobao inspection service and keep communication and payment inside the platform; specifics are in the in-app official rules.