Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit
viking@infosec.pub 3 weeks agoI don’t want to deal with their abysmal costumer service, and I’m not giving my address and phone number to some Chinese data center if I can help it.
humble_pete_digger@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Your local oligarch will do more damage to you than remote Chinese person can ever do
viking@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Remote in what sense? I’m in China.
humble_pete_digger@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
So use taobao or small or whatever u guys have in China. Why touch amazon
viking@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
I use amazon to buy ebooks, and order stuff to my parents or friends back home if they are coming over, when there’s something I can’t get locally.
Taobao is the same garbage as Aliexpress, Temu would be Pinduoduo (which is so riddled with poor knockoffs that locals avoid it and crack jokes about the stupid foreigners thinking it’s hot shit).
The only somewhat trusted platform is JD.com (jindong) or official brand shops on Taobao. Tmall belongs to Taobao, that’s just their own shop (as opposed to third party sellers), but there’s no guarantee you actually buy authentic products either.