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

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Post by sanktanglia »

fundad wrote: post #579
realo wrote: post #572

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The Donald tariffs certainly changed my behavior as a Canadian consumer. For example, i stopped buying US wine, US orange juice and I keep an eye open for any US made thing I could remove from my environment.

Instead of the US government spending away on overcapacity so Canadians can have cheap products, that money should go to public housing and healthcare subsidies. I think this is better for the US long term because agriculture is heavily subsidized and competes with housing and other industries for land and labor.

Oh yeah the money from the tariffs are definitely going to go to help average Americans. Oh wait be did this last time and 90% of the tariffs went to propping up all the industries that went to shit due to reciprocal tariffs (soy beans and others) and we never recovered. So many countries moved away from us and never came back. That's exactly what's going to happen this time, alienating is from our allies, almost like it's the point to cause chaos and alienation but wait why would trump do that hes always been on the up and up before

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

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Post by netcan »

crowcroft wrote: post #514
bgnn wrote: post #499

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I can't see how can add industry be resilient to recession. Maybe if you switch to selling ads for government propaganda?

Advertising on the whole is not recession proof[1], although in the last two dips Google showed growth in ad revenue[2], and Meta was relatively stable[3]. The first thing that gets cut is 'new channels' and experiments (read: channels that have bad measurable ROI). Pinterest, X, Snap. After that it's the most 'wasteful' brand spending/high cost per reach broadcast media that gets cut. Cinema, local TV, and increasin…

Google search (and online direct marketing broadly) have pretty direct impact on sales. It's true that they held up well, relative to "traditional advertising" in recent downturn.

However... there are a lot of money losing campaigns out there. A lot of that relates to economic buoyancy. Startups showing growth for the next round. But also established companies getting into new sectors, defending market share, etc.

We are still, I think, in a "greed mode" economy. Fear hasn't really shown it's face yet. If that switch flips... I suspect meta/alphabet will be impacted this time.

It's really hard to tell though.

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Post by AcerbicZero »

jcranmer wrote: post #538
genewitch wrote: post #486

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The tariffs that were announced during the campaign - the same way Ross Perot did - and the reasoning was to bring us manufacturing back to the US and reduce the tax burden on US citizens? Such as writing off car payments if the car is American? People wigged out over non-reciprocal tariffs, where we tariff at 50% what they charge the US. People wigged out at 10℅ flat rate tariffs. "Heard island penguins get charged…

> People wigged out over non-reciprocal tariffs, where we tariff at 50% what they charge the US. The "reciprocal" tariffs are based on not the tariff duties foreign countries imposed on US goods, but the trade deficit the US has with said foreign country. There's a lot of idiocy in the tariffs, but this was one of the loudest complaints people had with them. > People wigged out at 10℅ flat rate tariffs. "Heard island…

Its abundantly clear that narrative is being driven. Its much less clear why, or by who.

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Post by NegativeLatency »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #544
zamalek wrote: post #411

I wonder if we can look forward to the end of the letter soup brands on Amazon, it's ridiculously difficult finding real brands in between them. That would be one silver lining in all this mess, at least.

It's easy to find "real brands" if one looks outside of Amazon, Alibaba, etc. Surprisingly, I find I am more pleased with purchases I make outside of Amazon despite all of Amazon's perks. "Platforms" like Amazon and fake "brands" aside, online retailers that only sell "real brands" are still around; they never disappeared despite Amazon's meteoric rise. Many sell through Amazon but also sell outside Amazon, too. Some…

I've found I buy fewer things in general, and also the things I do buy are of higher quality when I do it in person. Might even get some useful advice if it's something like a tool. Also it's just more fun, especially if it's a nice bike ride, walk, or trip on transit.

> And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut

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Post by Bluescreenbuddy »

moolcool wrote: post #545
chairmansteve wrote: post #517

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Yeah. I just go to Best Buy. You pay more. Their website works pretty well.

Worth mentioning though, that BestBuy's website also has the same garbage "marketplace" problem as Amazon

You can filter them out. For now..

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Post by ceejayoz »

Amezarak wrote: post #546
jcranmer wrote: post #538

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> People wigged out over non-reciprocal tariffs, where we tariff at 50% what they charge the US. The "reciprocal" tariffs are based on not the tariff duties foreign countries imposed on US goods, but the trade deficit the US has with said foreign country. There's a lot of idiocy in the tariffs, but this was one of the loudest complaints people had with them. > People wigged out at 10℅ flat rate tariffs. "Heard island…

The Heard and McDonald Islands debacle was poorly reported on. It does have its own customs zone, it doesn’t fall under Australia. Some years, the World Bank has reported imports from the island: https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/USA/Yea...

I assure you the US did not import $1.3M worth of machinery from an uninhabited island.

It's a data error. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revea...

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Post by kbelder »

properpopper wrote: post #390
simgt wrote: post #328

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> 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.

Environment protection in the EU good: - replace plastic straws/cups with paper based ones questionable: - limit nicotine products to 10ml, so now instead of buying one bottle (200ml for example) of nicotine you have to buy 20 bottles 10ml each - ???

I'm so out of the vice loop. What nicotine products do you buy in a bottle?

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Post by Scoundreller »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #544
zamalek wrote: post #411

I wonder if we can look forward to the end of the letter soup brands on Amazon, it's ridiculously difficult finding real brands in between them. That would be one silver lining in all this mess, at least.

It's easy to find "real brands" if one looks outside of Amazon, Alibaba, etc. Surprisingly, I find I am more pleased with purchases I make outside of Amazon despite all of Amazon's perks. "Platforms" like Amazon and fake "brands" aside, online retailers that only sell "real brands" are still around; they never disappeared despite Amazon's meteoric rise. Many sell through Amazon but also sell outside Amazon, too. Some…

That’s a lot more true in USA than Canada. Probably the case in other places too.

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Post by maxwell »

ceejayoz wrote: post #584
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #544

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It's easy to find "real brands" if one looks outside of Amazon, Alibaba, etc. Surprisingly, I find I am more pleased with purchases I make outside of Amazon despite all of Amazon's perks. "Platforms" like Amazon and fake "brands" aside, online retailers that only sell "real brands" are still around; they never disappeared despite Amazon's meteoric rise. Many sell through Amazon but also sell outside Amazon, too. Some…

> It's easy to find "real brands" if one looks outside of Amazon, Alibaba, etc. You have to be careful, though. There are a shocking number of legit-looking brands with their own sites that are just drop-shipping the same stuff, at an enormous markup. My wife found a piece of clothing she liked for $60; a quick image search found it (with the exact same images) for $8 on Shein. Nice hustle, if you can make it work.

Buy American. False Made in USA claims are subject to fines exceeding $40k per violation.

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Post by ceejayoz »

maxwell wrote: post #599
ceejayoz wrote: post #584

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> It's easy to find "real brands" if one looks outside of Amazon, Alibaba, etc. You have to be careful, though. There are a shocking number of legit-looking brands with their own sites that are just drop-shipping the same stuff, at an enormous markup. My wife found a piece of clothing she liked for $60; a quick image search found it (with the exact same images) for $8 on Shein. Nice hustle, if you can make it work.

Buy American. False Made in USA claims are subject to fines exceeding $40k per violation.

Good luck enforcing those on a Chinese drop shipper.
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