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• pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Unless you have a sign saying “You’re paying me to buy this for you from alibaba”, I consider it very dishonest. Perfectly legal, but borderline scammy ethically imo.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is the same thing your local department store does. It sells shit it buys in bulk, much of it manufactured in China.

    Dropshipping gets scammy when you start implying you produce the stuff you’re selling IMO.

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    • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Your local department store has to have a physical location and stock, they’re physical goods in a physical location, adding value to you by way of letting not have to travel to a bunch of different people producing the things you need. Dropshippers literally just order something to your address for a marked up price. They are adding cost with literally no value to you.

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well a lot of these bulk sellers don’t sell B2C. I could start my own company to buy shit, or use a middle man.

        Sellers in the EU also have to give their shit a 2 year warranty, including for dropshipped items. No such requirements for Aliexpress.

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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What do you think just about every person does on apps like Amazon walmart.com etc. Almost all of them are drop shippers or people other than direct manufacturers. Almost every single store you purchase from almost every single website you go to is a form of a drop shipper. If you don’t know this and you don’t understand how retail works there’s always a manufacturer then there is a warehousing then there is somebody that purchases it and then there is the end store that you purchase from whether it’s retail brick and mortar or it’s online. If you think you’re buying directly from the manufacturer and you’re buying from other places other than the manufacturer’s website you’re almost guaranteed to be purchasing from some sort of type of drop shipper.

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t want to make accounts on lots of sites and search all of them every time I buy something, so I think of it like a convenience fee if the way an ebay package is wrapped implies the seller arbitraged it from elsewhere.

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