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THe salt of dropshipper tears
brings me such joy
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pollution noooo
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buttholes like him are the reason you have to scroll past 20 entries of fake chink brands "NGRFGT" when searching literally anything on Amazon
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barely even an exaggeration
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I love when I'm looking for something just to window shop and see if a product interests me, and I see 20 of the exact same product with a different configuration of alphabet soup stenciled in.
I barely use Amazon anymore anyway but it's absolutely infuriating and a huge reason I don't use it anymore outside of occasionally house supplies if I'm in a pinch and can't get to the store for a few days, things like TP, Paper towels, dishwasher pods, etc.
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Amazon, funnily enough, has reverted almost exclusively to a bookstore for me because of this. Back to the good old days
If I don't have a very specific brand in mind I don't even consider it. It just feels gross to scroll through all the Alibaba promotional images
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I hate to admit it, but I've installed parts from HANYUNG MOTORSPORTS OUTDOOR LIFE CAR and other Chinese brands on cars I've owned out of cheapeness, and in weirdly kind of critical areas
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See you in the next liveleak video driving off a bridge
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Lmao I actually did run a $23 front CV axle on a 5500lb body on frame SUV and it somehow was fine
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I wouldn't even buy those specific brands from Amazon. All the sellers comingle their inventory and they'll ship from which ever seller has inventory closest to you, likely resulting in the delivery of a counterfeit product.
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With "brand" items like clothing yes. There's no authentic clothing on amazon
But nobody's counterfeiting specific glassware or cowtools or whatever
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I learned about the comingle issue with scrub daddies. The real thing doesnt degrade at all for like 6 months and are cleanable. The counterfeits barely last a week. When I order from the official scrub daddy page on Amazon I get counterfeits every time. Gotta get them from retail now.
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Yeha I used to buy shoes from them and I can say the New Balances I've gotten have fallen apart in like a few months
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its nice to finally see new brick and mortar retail opening up in the area
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Whats wrong with weird business names? I buy them cuz they're cheap
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I find Amazon is generally good if you stick to well-known brands. People complain about getting fakes but I've never gotten one and I'm 100% certain Amazon would let you return it. I'd say it's usually the same price or cheaper than ordering the item directly except with Amazon you also get fast free shipping and a return policy that's miles better than anything on any other online outlet.
If I buy anything "off-brand" there, I assume it's going to be plastic garbage.
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They also ruined Etsy.
I'm glad tariffs are punching them in the peepee
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Looked at some kitchen
utensils the other day. It might actually 
be even worse on the European 
websites lol, sooo much random 
gibberish, more real companies sell on the American 
amazon 
website
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This is actually the fault of the USPTO
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I particularly enjoy the comments to the effect of "this won't hurt my Chinese supplier because they all just commit massive fraud to get around issues like these"
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Is it professional to send completely accurate shipping documents?
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When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. Nobody has been checking on shipments from our most-favored trading partner since forever. I want them stomped into the mud when orange father actually starts enforcing laws at the ports.
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Mr. International Businessman over here.
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Funny way of saying "unemployed"
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It's not a way of saying unemployed though
@Grue stand with israel
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grue nobody cares bb
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I care about him being dumb on the internet
@Grue stand with israel
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It's really crazy seeing the "we need our wholesome overseas sweatshop workers" angle against Trump from typical liberal/left people. Same thing with the "who's gonna slave away in our farms if he gets rid of illegals???"
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It's infuriating to discuss this with them because they don't understand basic market economy
As if the market wouldn't instantly adjust and the jobs replaced by robots or the wages increased. But i guess it's easier to lobby the government to keep the flow of illegals
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You saw it here after Brexit. There was months of crying about how we'd have no more truck drivers and shelves would be empty everywhere. Then magically wages rose, working conditions improved and the jobs were filled by people that apparently wouldn't want the job in a million years
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A lot of the jobs in the midwest that are primarily done by mexican immigrant labor now (meatpacking, roofing, drywall, etc) used to be professional jobs back in the 1980s, and they paid a decent wage for the time, like enough to support your family with.
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I decided to take a look at butchers for an example, 1970s wages to now
butchers make about half as much as they did in 1970, they cant afford a family or to start their own butcher shops any longer (eta: had average instead of median at first for 2025)
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Right and the republicans (preMAGA ones anyway) want the cheap products so Business can be Cheap, and the democrats want the slave labor. Its only the magats ruining everything by insisting on living wages and benefits, which is kinda bizarre.
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Notoriously economically beneficial brexit
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Brexit was great just look at their economy.
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Bongs can't help being r-slurred, comrade
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They've always done that though. They just disguised it by posting the "I am very intelligent" comic instead of saying it out loud
Its always bizarre too because I don't give a rats butt about sweatshop conditions but somehow manage to consoom less of it than then simply by having standards for the products I purchase
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MUST CONSOOOOOOOOOOOOM.
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It says a lot about your legitimacy as a business that your business is ruined within the first 24 hours
0 supplies, directly from the factory to Amazon. No additional stock stored anywhere at all. Not even enough to last the two weeks before trump changes his mind, declares victory, and rolls it back
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Now let's talk about speculation in the commodities futures market
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Oh no, what will people do without their crappy dropshipped products?!
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First they came for the dropshippers…
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and I cheered because I am a factory worker who enjoys a living wage in a civilized nation
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Odds it's a fidget spinner?
Also OP is microdosing shrooms and taking steroids lol
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Probably some kind of fidget toy. They make like 12 billion different pieces of trash that do slightly different things.
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Maybe the tariffs arent so bad after all
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Honestly I respect drug dealers more than drop shippers I hope these people get ruined and have to kill themselves
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Why hate on people trying too fill a market need?
@Grue stand with israel
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It isn't a market need, it's a consumer greed. If there's a NEED for fidget spinners, they'll still sell at $20 instead of $3, made in good god fearing AMErICAN factories
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had a nice $20 premium luxury fidget spinner back during the craze. it was beautiful. all metal and a fancy bearing so it spun forever
got stolen
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Drop shippers are essential workers chud
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The economy is healing
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What value does this guy bring? He doesnt make anything, doesnt ship it , doesnt even really sell it… just pure waste and excess fat that needs to be trimmed from society
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Okay commie
@Grue stand with Israel
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I feel like the whole US economy has trended toward this. See: private equity firms
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I once met a guy who described his job in private equity as "enabling small businesses and entrepreneurs".
"Oh, so like Blackrock?"
He did not like that question.
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Blame the greedy small business owners who sold out to Big Money, too.
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God I wish I could stop getting what I voted for every time
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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truth is dropshippers are a cancer on the face of the world and must burn
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Lol yeah the tariffs are dumb overall but seeing these drop shippers whine about it is pretty fricking funny
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I hope Amazon returns to the days of selling actual name-brand products instead of the current temu shit
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What's so fricking hard about pricing externalities?
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