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Post by llm_nerd »

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.

Neither does Temu. They're misrepresenting what Temu does, at least in my experience.

If you choose a star rating below five, Temu asks if you'd like to request a refund or seek other assistance. The one time I said yes -- it was a keyboard where a shift key wouldn't trigger consistently at the peculiar angle that my typing style hit it at -- it immediately gave me a 100% refund and said just keep it.

But I've left other low-star rating without trouble. The refund/assistance suggestion is an entirely optional sidetrack.

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Post by xeromal »

brnt wrote: post #173
ccozan wrote: post #147

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It does not work. You have to declare the real source of the merchandise. Or it has to go through "substantial transformation" so that is called "Made in France". Country of origin is taxed and not country of shippment.

And nobody ever lied on those Chinese envelopes with the value declaration. ;) Also, I can tell you that the country of origin field has one of the lowest entry qualities of all fields. People just don't bother, and customs don't have the capacity. Also, depending on your warehousing, there is a good chance you simply don't know. If something in your item bucket came from either China, Vietnam, Malaysia or the Philip…

I bought an instrument cluster for my car for 700$ a year or two ago and they totally put something like "broken car parts - 20$" on the declaration.

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Post by crazygringo »

Aurornis wrote: post #80
throw310822 wrote: post #61

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> I'm surprised the websites don't even acknowledge this yet. Well, why would you waste the opportunity to enrage Americans against their government, for free? "Your $5 package has arrived on time, now you only have to pay the $75 extra that the candidate you voted for has decided to take from you". It's the best ads campaign ever, and it's entirely free.

It's not that complicated. They don't pay the tariffs. The person receiving the package does. Many carriers will slap you with the tariff charge, a brokerage fee, and then send you to collections if you don't pay it. The vendors don't care because they're making the sale and the tariffs are the other person's responsibility. Caveat emptor.

But the person receiving the package doesn't receive the package until they've paid the tariff.

You don't have to pay it -- if you don't, the package gets returned to sender or destroyed.

The post office delivers you a slip with information to go to your local post office to pay it and pick up the package. With UPS and FedEx you get a notice to pay online, and they deliver it once you do, as far as I know.

I've never heard of something being delivered without the tariff already having been paid, and then it going to collections. Has anyone ever experienced that personally? I don't see how that would be legal, or why a delivery service would expose themselves to risk of nonpayment.

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Post by constantcrying »

vachina wrote: post #312
constantcrying wrote: post #186

I hope temu and the other Chinese companies in that segment stop selling overseas. Their model is just incredibly destructive to the environment, they ship over the lowest quality garbage imaginable and create so much pollution and waste in the process. I also have quite a bit of disdain for people using these sites. Nobody needs this and it is just harmful all around.

If you pay peanuts obviously you’re gonna get garbage. You chose to buy garbage, why blame the producer lol.

I don't buy anything from temu, but I also want that nobody else buys stuff from temu.

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Post by vincnetas »

diffeomorphism wrote: post #156
roshin wrote: post #131

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> send you to collections if you don't pay it That doesn't make sense. So can I cause troubles to someone by ordering an unwanted $1 temu item to their house, and thereby summon a collection agency to them (if they don't pay the $75 fee)?

You ordered the package, so you have to pay the fees. If you gift the package to someone, that is nice of you but they do not become involved in your purchase by that.

wow i see a variation of SWAT'ing someone. Just flood your unliked neighbour with aliexpress packages. It costs you 0.5$ ant 75$ for him. real life DoS attack.

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

cbeach wrote: post #311
Havoc wrote: post #250

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Much like brexit this will be a case of hindsight for many - people realising too late that they voted against their own interests

Brexit literally just resulted in the UK having lower tariffs and a probable free trade deal with the largest economy on the planet. ...unlike our friends on the European continent.

Brexit has been a disaster for the UK otherwise and anyone with eyes can see that

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Post by simgt »

geor9e wrote: post #20

I loved temu, aliexpress, and shein. I probably averaged 1 item per day arriving to my house, for years and years. Mostly little electronics parts and specialized tools for my workshop. Buying from Amazon or locally would have cost me 10x as much. Obviously it's over now. Anyone getting a package in May will be hit with a $75-$150 or more bill per package, even a 75 cent envelope will be charged +$75. I feel bad for…

> I loved temu, aliexpress, and shein. I probably averaged 1 item per day arriving to my house, for years and years.

> I feel bad for the unaware people still ordering.

I personally feel bad for the environment and all the people on the losing side of cheap low quality junk production. Good if the beneficiaries are gone from your part of the world.

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Post by llm_nerd »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #169
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.

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.

>More than 50% of those are below 3 stars.

Do you make bad purchasing decisions? How could "over 50%" of 200+ purchases be two star or fewer? Why would you still patronize Amazon if this is your experience?

>They don't suppress any legitimate reviews.

While I don't think they do -- Amazon, like Temu, is a marketplace of sellers, and they let the bad sellers die -- you aren't really in a position to say if they do or not. Amazon's algorithm for surfacing and/or aggregating reviews is not something we can audit in any real manner.

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Post by immibis »

stavros wrote: post #272
naijaboiler wrote: post #262

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Every tax, and tariff a tax, is shared between producer and consumer depending on elasticity of demand for the goods

Why is that the case? If an item (from every manufacturer) costs $5, and there's a new tax on it, making it cost $10, why would this be split between buyer and seller? The seller needs to make a certain margin on it, and it's not like the competition can sell any cheaper, or they already would have been.

The seller doesn't "need" to make any margin on it. Margins are set by the free market, and they are what they are, no more, no less.

Prices go down when demand goes down, right? Why's that, don't sellers need to make a certain margin?

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