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Post by mytailorisrich »

echoangle wrote: post #217
mytailorisrich wrote: post #204

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I don't think the price of those small shipments from China is necessarily crazy. Looking at flights for people: you can get a return flight to China from the UK for less than £350, which means less than £175 one way. Let's say that's about 100kg (person plus luggage) then this means that flying 100g from China to the UK costs less than 17.5p or 20c in euros. I expect that cargo will be cheaper than passenger plane,…

The plane itself isn’t the only cost of shipping. Even sending a letter is more expensive, and there’s no plane involved. You have to pick it up, bring it to the airport, and deliver it to the door from the destination airport.

Obviously. This is just to illustrate that what the "real cost" is is not as obvious as what some comments suggest and that it is likely much lower.

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Post by mort96 »

poisonborz wrote: post #220
bufferoverflow wrote: post #50

I used to buy a lot from Temu. Till I got a product that fell apart after three months. I tried to leave a bad review, but Temu wouldn't allow it. If you're trying to leave 3 star rating or below, they redirect you to customer service. But since customer service only dealt with items under 45 days (as far as I remember), they would just tell me something like "too bad, you're out of luck". So I can't get a refund, I…

You really expect that kind of support from something ahipped across the globe for peanuts? Ali/Temu and the kind serve specific purposes and they do it well. I find reviews on those sites still useful, and at least on Ali there are a fair number of negative ones as well. Users tell if a specific part works with Home Assistant or zigbee2mqt. I suggest to sort by order number and not stars.

The "kind of support" they say they expect is the ability to leave a negative review. That doesn't seem too extreme of an expectation honestly. The only reason support came into the picture is that Temu redirected them to support.

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Post by aziaziazi »

randunel wrote: post #146
nottorp wrote: post #139

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You don't have a glue removal spray? :) I bought one to get sticker residue off my windshield, but it's proven useful many times since. Mind, considering how well it removes glue, I wouldn't stick anything that was touched by it in my mouth... but may be okay for the hand end of your chopsticks.

Can you recommend your glue removal spray which is food safe? Because the entirety of cutlery needs to remain food safe, not just the pointy end.

I recommend isopropyl alcohol. It’s cheap, versatile and works like a charm for most of your cleaning jobs. Way safer and cheaper than sprays and "super-do-that-thing-4000". No offense to the sprayers.

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Post by simianwords »

moooo99 wrote: post #216
simianwords wrote: post #123

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Americans definitely have more buying power than Europe. This doesn't look to be true.

If you use the PPP adjusted per capita GDP as a comparison metric the US stands about 37% higher than the EU. Considering the baseline tariff of 10% and the substantially higher tariffs for important trading partners the US targets, it may actually even out.

Does this include the fact that tariffs negatively affect even the EU GDP?

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Post by jay_kyburz »

paganel wrote: post #108
roxolotl wrote: post #33

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Wow I’m genuinely surprised that’s not getting more press. That’s absolutely going to shock the hell out of some people.

Truth be told, the status quo, with 5-dollar packages clogging the USPS, was a DoS on-going thing in real life/physical form, there had been many posts in here detailing that. Yes, it will most probably negatively affect a lot of people who were relying on that DoS thing to carry on, and, yes, most probably the proposed charges are too high, but it was obvious that something needed to change.

I don't agree with Tariffs, but the discounts some countries get on postage is BS. It should not be cheaper to have a parcel delivered from overseas than interstate in your own country.

https://www.ft.com/content/876bc3ec-aadb-11e8-8253-48106866c...

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Post by baq »

yread wrote: post #198
iLoveOncall wrote: post #169

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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?

You forgot to ask 'Do you live in a high-trust society?' - or maybe you didn't?

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Post by iLoveOncall »

yread wrote: post #198
iLoveOncall wrote: post #169

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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?

Yeah I get the items for free in exchange of honest reviews, look up Amazon Vine, it's an official Amazon program.

Note that if anything they are more stringent with the quality of the reviews we need to write, not less.

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Post by jay_kyburz »

ccozan wrote: post #147
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #97

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I'm in France, maybe I should open a proxy. You order through me, I reexpedite to the US, with a French stamp lol.

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.

I've seen a few headlines in our local news here in Australia about how nobody knows what amount of Chinese ingredients will result in the final product being hit with Chinese tariffs, even though the products are assembled here.

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Post by baq »

simianwords wrote: post #224
moooo99 wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you use the PPP adjusted per capita GDP as a comparison metric the US stands about 37% higher than the EU. Considering the baseline tariff of 10% and the substantially higher tariffs for important trading partners the US targets, it may actually even out.

Does this include the fact that tariffs negatively affect even the EU GDP?

Tariffs in the US affect the whole world, not just US or EU - every single GDP goes down, the question is how much. EU gets hit less than the US is more or less a given, but error bars are significant.
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