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RE: E-commerce and the Broken American Dream

in Silver Bloggers6 days ago

My cousin bought me a cell phone holder for my car for 99 cents off Temu, I remember saying to her I probably wouldn't use it anyway so don't spend the money. Well she did anyway, months later it's still in the trunk of my car. I wondered at one point though, how can large retailers even compete with pricing like that. My cousin, she complains a lot after she goes on a site like that being bombarded with offers that sound to good to be true, and they usually are, and she ends up getting junk. I think 99 cent sweaters is a push to believe but she falls for it. Me, I'd rather not be bothered. The grand kids had a wood shaped box out back filled with toys they finally outgrew they played in the sandbox with. I asked them if it was okay for me to finally get rid of them and they helped me carry them all to the curb. I took the hose and rinsed them off though they could have used a good scrubbing, within two days they were all gone. I guess in todays economy using a little elbow grease to get a bargain beats Temu.

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I've never been able to understand how they make it work. Some trinket is 99 cents and then they offer free shipping on top of that. As a seller online, I know full well but shipping costs more than 99 cents most likely, I can't ship anything for less than about 4 bucks.

I'm just trying to get rid of stuff! But the system is really not rigged to help anybody simplify and buy less, quite the opposite.

Around here, we use to "buy nothing" app quite often to recycle things, and to find things we need.