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De minimus entries from China shut down effective Tuesday.
— Ryan Petersen (@typesfast) February 2, 2025
Maybe American Apparel can come back
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I don't have an impulse purchasing problem, so this doesn't affect me.
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As long as they don't frick with AliExpress, it's fine by me.
Edit: Looks like it does: https://fortune.com/2025/02/02/trump-tariffs-de-minimis-loophole-chinese-online-retailers-temu-alibaba-shein/
Seems to be based on a revocation of an exemption on tariffs if the goods are below a certain amount. So, it's not really about drop shipping per se, but any products from China.
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Cheap extensions is fallen
Thousands must conditioner
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NNNOOOO I USED ALIEXPRESS FOR CHEAP ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS. NOOOOOO
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Where am I going to buy 100 barrel jacks, 10,000 LEDs, several hundred feet of speaker wire, and 30 5v to 12v buck converters for 50¢ now? Frick you drumph! Frick you to heck!
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frick around and find out, chud
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You can buy OEM AMD CPUs for like $100-150 below the American retailer markups, so that's cool. But otherwise, I don't have any use for it. The point there was that, unlike Temu, AliExpress has some good products that aren't extremely low quality knockoffs, even though, yes, most of their stuff is also that.
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(he doesn't know)
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It rocks for stupid shit that can't be screwed up too, like I needed new side grips for my mouse and they have a cutout sticker for the exact model that cost a couple bucks.
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Good
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Probably not being reported too much since everyone agreed this loophole needed to be closed.
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Man, there goes my subsidized $5 3-Day FedEx deliveries from Shanghai/Shenzhen
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America is not allowed to do anything in its own interest, chud.
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So why hasn't that happened during this administration yet?
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i love the government telling me who i can buy things from, frick yeah.
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Why is drop shipping bad?
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what's bad is china is "developing" which means western nations subsidize shipping. you pay for the shipping to be cheap. Also they use slave labor to build products based on stolen designs using inferior products. Everybody loses when burgers buy cheap stuff from china
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Using slave labour to build products based on stolen designs is how undeveloped countries develop, it's how the US did it in the 1800s too. Only burger corpos lose.
Cheap Chinese crap is nice.
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potato/potato I'm just saying that's why the chud thinks it's bad
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!hibernians potatoes mentioned
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Irish Potato Cookbook - Traditional Irish Recipes by Eveleen Coyle
!bookworms
https://annas-archive.org/md5/6e3d1025fdc38346b57c9a03db297d65
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China superpower 2070
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Wow, finally Trump did something good.
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Let's fricking GOOOOOOOOO
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Ha! Do you know how Instagram, 9gag, Tiktok are absolutly FLOODED with fake posts by dropshippers? Shorts clips of some chinesium-made gagdet, then the first comment is "I want it where do I get it", and then a link to a dropshipping store where its 90 Dollars. (Same shit is 15 Dollars on Aliexpress)
You can actually troll dropshippers by posting Aliexpress-links to the product they are trying to sell in the same comments.
They go absolutly mental, because all the money for their hired adbots goes out of the window.
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im gonna do that, this sounds fun!
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All the goodwill Trump is trying to get with black people is gone the second they can't buy plastic garbage off of Temu every week
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They'll just blame Amazon and Jeff Bozo
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doesn't matter, still got elected
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i wonder how ups, fedex, and the postal service will deal with the massive reduction in business
but i'm happy that my wife will stop buying garbage that quickly breaks and gets thrown out
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Who?
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Cheap Chinese plastic crap is getting $0.25 more expensive
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Donl trump the president of the USA
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I never understood how people make money dropshipping, tbh I never really read into it but if the OG supplier is directly shipping to the final customer, why is an influencer involved? marketing? how do they get the money?
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isnt this just arbitrage
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Yes. The arbitrage opportunity exists because the USPS subsidizes crazy cheap shipping from China and boomers and zoomers don't understand how computers work so they can't go find the same crap on AliExpress for 90% less.
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Flea markets and even conventions, even "artist alleys" are FILLED, nay-- OVERFLOWING with drop shipping booths selling chinese items for $24 (or maybe even $60) instead of merely $18
There is multiple scandals about fine art booth owners selling chinese "cute" ceramics or knitted items
Temuslop was on etsy as "homemade goods" but when etsy crashed and the cash dried up, the scammers literally took to the streets to try and out compete the artists there too
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And you can actually cause A LOT of Drama on Tiktok, 9gag, Instagram etc. by posting links to the same product the dropshipper tries to sell on Aliexpress.
Because then all the upkong-bots etc. he payed were for nothing. I did it a few times on 9gag. Posted a nice fat screenshot to Aliexpress, showing how the "90 Dollar Gadget" is actually 5 Dollar shit. Got sooooo many angry messages.
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Ooh, you should make a post about it!
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waow
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Dov Charney has already relaunched American Apparel as Los Angeles Apparel losangelesapparel.net
Its been around for 5+ years at least r-slur
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Fricking based. Day of The Job Application has come for all drop shipping "entrepreneurs"
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how's it going
/u/funnyshirtsyouneed ?
https://rdrama.net/post/337556/tiktok-creator-is-whining-over-getting
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Snapshots:
https://x.com/typesfast/status/1885878378408149383:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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finally I can see ai slop and crash footage instead of dropship ad slop in my instagram reels
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