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Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by cyberax »

yorwba wrote: post #83
Aurornis wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a minimum fee for packages, yes. At this point I've lost track of all the changes but at one point I remember seeing $100 or $150 per package under some conditions. Carriers will also charge a fee for brokering it. USPS has a $9 fee, other carriers are higher. We went from being free to order things internationally to having out of control fees and taxes on top of everything. There's a lot of sneering at Tem…

That there is a minimum fee doesn't necessarily mean the customer pays it on arrival. It could also be charged to the sender in advance, and if they don't pay, the package is simply not delivered at all. If you could cheaply send stuff to random people to make them pay huge fees when they get something they didn't even order, that would be quite bad...

> If you could cheaply send stuff to random people to make them pay huge fees when they get something they didn't even order, that would be quite bad...

You can just refuse to accept the item, and it'll be returned to the sender or destroyed.

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by Rebelgecko »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #169
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had bad reviews been supressed by amazon several as well, so at this point I'm assuming any review system is theater.

I have written more than 200 reviews on Amazon in the past year and only one got rejected, and quickly approved I corrected one thing that was out of the rules. More than 50% of those are below 3 stars. They don't suppress any legitimate reviews.

Amazon took down one of my reviews because I included a picture of the item's manual which had a page offering to pay for Amazon reviews (the item had unanimous 5 star reviews). To me that seemed like valuable info and legitimate context to include in a review but even after I appealed they disagreed because my picture was "irrelevant".

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by bkor »

philjohn wrote: post #168
nottorp wrote: post #135

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Temu/Aliexpress/etc are for buying very cheap clothing. 2 out of 3 items fit and 1 out of 3 is decent quality. That's still cheaper, depending on what tariffs your country is charging. I wouldn't buy something where a warranty would be useful from them. Ok, maybe very niche hobby products, but then I wouldn't expect a warranty.

Not entirely. For cycling there are now a group of trusted companies that many people purchase from - WinSpace, Magene, iGPSport, that stand behind their products. I have a Magene p505 crank-based power meter - £250 delivered. It's as accurate as ones costing 4X as much, and has not shown any signs of issues in the year+ I've been using it. The idea that AliExpress is just for cheap tat is less and less true, and pro…

> For cycling there are now a group of trusted companies that many people purchase from - WinSpace, Magene, iGPSport, that stand behind their products.

Do you follow Trace Velo on YouTube? Any others you recommend (aside from China Cycling)?

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

#194

Post by vitorgrs »

brnt wrote: post #170
vitorgrs wrote: post #113

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Shein biggest thing is actually AI/ML. As far I remember, what they really invested is on the service per see. Shein gather data from consumers on internet, on what's the latest trends/art, and just create clothes. And they do this like, always. There's no "Summer" or "Winter" season clothes. They just update them continually.

So, the same as Temu.

Temu "produces" their own clothes, etc? I was under the impression that it was just a marketplace.

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by LegitShady »

IshKebab wrote: post #98
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #95

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I had bad reviews been supressed by amazon several as well, so at this point I'm assuming any review system is theater.

Amazon definitely don't do anything like this.

I bought a pcie wifi card on amazon.

It came with a "get $20 if you leave a 5 star review" card in it.

I took a picture and included it in my review.

Amazon declined to publish it.

So, they do shady shit like this for sure.

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by K0balt »

yorwba wrote: post #83
Aurornis wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a minimum fee for packages, yes. At this point I've lost track of all the changes but at one point I remember seeing $100 or $150 per package under some conditions. Carriers will also charge a fee for brokering it. USPS has a $9 fee, other carriers are higher. We went from being free to order things internationally to having out of control fees and taxes on top of everything. There's a lot of sneering at Tem…

That there is a minimum fee doesn't necessarily mean the customer pays it on arrival. It could also be charged to the sender in advance, and if they don't pay, the package is simply not delivered at all. If you could cheaply send stuff to random people to make them pay huge fees when they get something they didn't even order, that would be quite bad...

Yet that’s exactly how it works. Each package will have $100 tacked on and in June that goes up to $200. They are basically making small packages impossible, so individuals / hobby buyers will be cut out completely, and a lot of small businesses will lose their supply lines. Big businesses will just raise prices to compensate… or bite the bullet long enough to put everyone else out of business. I suspect this is Walmarts plan.

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by gblargg »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #192
iLoveOncall wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have written more than 200 reviews on Amazon in the past year and only one got rejected, and quickly approved I corrected one thing that was out of the rules. More than 50% of those are below 3 stars. They don't suppress any legitimate reviews.

Amazon took down one of my reviews because I included a picture of the item's manual which had a page offering to pay for Amazon reviews (the item had unanimous 5 star reviews). To me that seemed like valuable info and legitimate context to include in a review but even after I appealed they disagreed because my picture was "irrelevant".

You're supposed to report review manipulation offers to Amazon. Reviews are for the product itself, not the seller (in theory multiple sellers can offer the same product, but for alphabet soup brands that's never the case).

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by yread »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #169
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had bad reviews been supressed by amazon several as well, so at this point I'm assuming any review system is theater.

I have written more than 200 reviews on Amazon in the past year and only one got rejected, and quickly approved I corrected one thing that was out of the rules. More than 50% of those are below 3 stars. They don't suppress any legitimate reviews.

> I have written more than 200 reviews on Amazon

Why did you do that? Did they pay you? Or did you get the stuff for free?

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by dns_snek »

MIC132 wrote: post #124
mixermachine wrote: post #105

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I can find some bad reviews on items that have a lot of positive reviews on Aliexpress. Seems like they don't completely filter all of them.

But they do have a time limit on leaving a review, as far as I can tell.

They have a 30 day time frame to leave a review. That's why so many reviews just say "Everything arrived on time" and none of them say "this thing broke after 31 days".

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by gblargg »

adrianmsmith wrote: post #100
IshKebab wrote: post #98

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Amazon definitely don't do anything like this.

I've only ever left one bad review on Amazon. Chopsticks, they came bound together with some sticky tape. Sticky tape left a very sticky area just where your hands go that I was unable to get off despite a lot of effort scrubbing, washing, and so on. I left a polite constructive review saying they were good chopsticks but watch out for this stickiness issue. My review was declined by Amazon on the grounds it didn't m…

The community guidelines rejection is such BS. I've done thousands of Amazon reviews and get about 1% rejection rate, and it's always baffling as to the cause. You develop superstition over time over what is the cause. I avoid certain words (sexual, violence, mention of other brands), blur our barcodes, etc. "Sticky" would trigger my "uh oh, sounds sexual" alarm and I'd word it something like "tape around chopsticks left adhesive residue". Like I said, superstition.
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