• @KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    757 months ago

    It’s also just stuff from Alibaba. It’s all made in China, which has gotten really cheap. You can buy the same things on AliExpress without giving out all your contacts and everything.

    Basically you are seeing how stores in the US buy their merchandise. It’s extremely cheap, and they are marking it up at least 100%. Shirts and pants are like $3 to $10, maybe a little more for good quality. Places like Target and Walmart buy these and double or triple the price.

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      577 months ago

      It’s also just stuff from Alibaba. It’s all made in China, which has gotten really cheap

      I feel the same about Amazon. Most listings are just US based resellers selling you cheap Chinese merchandise bought from Alibaba and then passing the costs onto the customer by inflating the price they resell it at.

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        237 months ago

        True, but with Amazon you are paying more for faster shipping. Stuff actually shipped from China takes a long time.

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        7 months ago

        It’s literally just drop shipping

        Don’t run any inventory. Just take orders on a front-end website. Then buy at wholesale rates and resell at retail prices, while trying to make a margin based on the difference between the margin and the cost of advertising. It works great if you’re able to get a bunch of free publicity. So you’ll typically see these guys “networking” in hopes of doing an impromptu sales pitch in front the largest crowd possible. Or doing stunts to get literally anyone to look at them.

        Amazon is a multi-trillion dollar industry that’s functionally built on the idea of drop shipping. Jeff Bezos is just the richest incarnation of those insufferable frat-bros trying to sell you bitcoin.

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      7 months ago

      Aliexpress is the way to go. A lot of the time you’re buying directly from the company that makes the product. On Amazon, there are a lot of drop shippers.