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glimse@lemmy.world 6 months agoI get what you’re saying but I feel like you’re deliberately missing their point just to shame them…
The supply and manufacturing chain is fucked up for just about everything. OP is realizing that not only is it fucked up, all that effort in the mines and sweatshop endes up in a landfill without any sort of usable product or silver lining.
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What does he expect ordering straight from China and paying basically nothing is my point. You get what you pay for (disposable bullshit products)and he’s actively supporting it. Everyone with half a brain knows that products from those apps are almost always some dollar store reject shit built with irresponsibly sourced labor and materials that very rarely work correctly or have any durability. He got exactly what he ordered, women’s feet, hats, men’s clothing, etc are notorious for being smaller than American/European sizes
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This hasn’t been true since the 70s. Back when the price of an item was dictated by things like material cost and labor.
My wife followed this influencer who was selling an $80 necklace. This influencer had sold hundreds of them. It was from her “personal” style collection. My wife was hoping to find something similar for cheaper so she reverse searched the necklace. She found the exact pendants and chain for sale for pennies. The $80 necklace cost my wife $5 to make, with shipping.
Cost is not an indicator of quality anymore. Things cost whatever the company thinks you’ll pay for them, and not a penny less.
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If that’s what you think I’m talking about then I’m just going to let you have this one. You are right, cost is not an indicator at all.
SirSmokeAlot@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I must have missed that homie, where does it say that he bought it locally? I know it says it shipped within 48 hours to the boonies which means it came from a holding warehouse owned by the same people. Is that what you think is local? My definition of local is a little different, my apologies sir.