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by dsign1 hours ago |
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upvoteby beezlewax17 minutes ago|
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What part of Europe is that? Is it is in the EU?
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upvoteby whimsicalism1 hours ago|
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yes, i'm very in favor of the shift towards direct-to-consumer among chinese retailers, but that might be because i'm not actually all that sympathetic to small business
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upvoteby victorbjorklund24 minutes ago|
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Yea, worst is the retail people who clearly hated Temu/Aliexpress etc because they stand no chance at competing with them when they sell the same things but at 10 times the cost (I don’t blame them. Sucks for them) but instead of just saying the truth that they hate the competition they just make up these fake reasons ”oh it’s low quality stuff that will break” when it’s clearly the same stuff from the same factories etc.
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upvoteby ktallett1 hours ago|
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There is some validity to a marketplace selling items from a larger range of retailers, however the quality is so poor for many items that it simply is no good for society in any way.
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upvoteby everforward27 minutes ago|
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> the quality is so poor for many items that it simply is no good for society in any way.

There are some that are genuinely dangerous and bad for society, but there are tons of goods that are "the same thing but half the price because it lasts a quarter the time" that have genuine utility.

Harbor Freight has basically made a drop-shipping business out of it. I often have tools that I need but will probably use 4 times in my life, and the Harbor Freight stuff is crap but will probably work 4 times.

Copy that over a bunch of verticals and it starts to make sense. Clothing for a costume I'll wear maybe twice, niche cooking gadgets for very specific things, tools to do a one-time repair on a car, a flash drive to turn over photos to family members, yada yada.

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upvoteby doubled11219 minutes ago|
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> some that are genuinely dangerous ... tools that I need but will probably use 4 times in my life, and the Harbor Freight stuff is crap but will probably work 4 times

Forehead hit hood, but I caught myself so it was a "gentle" reminder instead of a concussion. I should have splurged that time I broke a socket tightening an axle bolt. 150 ft-lbs + 180 degrees is a fair bit of torque.

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upvoteby mytailorisrich1 hours ago|
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There is a part of conservatism and resistance to change. Online commerce has been seen as "suspicious" by some from the beginning to the point that in, for instance, France free delivery on books is banned... of course this just means that amazon.fr charges 1 cent, instead but it is symptomatic of a state of mind.
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upvoteby Barbing41 minutes ago|
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Interesting! They tried using lockers so it could still be free:

https://www.connexionfrance.com/news/amazon-is-wrong-to-use-...

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upvoteby lnxg33k112 minutes ago|
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No but the EU doesn't really care about what Temu sells, the whole thing for EU is to be citizen's parasite, so as long as the intermediary pays the fee to the government they can do what they want, the thing Temu sellers don't pay the share to EU
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