Those objectives are the goals of corruption
Not the goals of everyday people.
Which holds true for many areas.
Ali has two types of stuff, bad toy like products and real very well performing products from new and smaller outfits. There is a way to tell by the price brackets
Another example of this again by the reels. A toy like build is usually quite a bit under $50 for a offshore class of spinning reel. At around $100 they are very serious and at $240, one even exceeds the blue water flagships. This compares to the same build quality being at $100, $400 and $1000 in Australian domestic retail market with top and entry level brand names
Another example of this again by the reels. A toy like build is usually quite a bit under $50 for a offshore class of spinning reel. At around $100 they are very serious and at $240, one even exceeds the blue water flagships. This compares to the same build quality being at $100, $400 and $1000 in Australian domestic retail market with top and entry level brand names
So what's the idea of a middleman anyway? They connect someone looking for a solution to something, with potential candidates for that solution. While making a tidy profit over that facilitation. Amazon and Temu's biggest problem is figuring out what someone wants.
Amazon has never figured that out to my knowledge. They allow biased reviews, reviews paid for, and/or - God help us - AI generated reviews. They're too stupid to do something like value that data above all else, curate it meticulously and then - drum roll - allow customers to sort everything they sell by review. Or even better, by the shape of the pareto distribution.
"Give me page after page of everything there is whos customer review distribution looks like this or better" 5 star, 75%, 4 star, 60%, 3 star, 30%, 2 star, 10%, 1 star, 5%. Edit: Oh, and include the number of reviews must be greater that 37. Then I might actually buy something I wasnt even looking for. Which they would love to have happen.
I've gotta believe they just have too much junk on hand to do that; too much inventory they pay to carry wouldnt move out at all. I can tell you one thing, I'm not stupid enough to buy something where I can clearly see fully half the population who did so thought it sucked.
Since when in retail has "the truth" ever been what makes sales? Sometimes yes. but a lot of times the truth of the matter is you're buying crap, for the sake of the immediacy of getting to have.
Amazon has never figured that out to my knowledge. They allow biased reviews, reviews paid for, and/or - God help us - AI generated reviews. They're too stupid to do something like value that data above all else, curate it meticulously and then - drum roll - allow customers to sort everything they sell by review. Or even better, by the shape of the pareto distribution.
"Give me page after page of everything there is whos customer review distribution looks like this or better" 5 star, 75%, 4 star, 60%, 3 star, 30%, 2 star, 10%, 1 star, 5%. Edit: Oh, and include the number of reviews must be greater that 37. Then I might actually buy something I wasnt even looking for. Which they would love to have happen.
I've gotta believe they just have too much junk on hand to do that; too much inventory they pay to carry wouldnt move out at all. I can tell you one thing, I'm not stupid enough to buy something where I can clearly see fully half the population who did so thought it sucked.
Since when in retail has "the truth" ever been what makes sales? Sometimes yes. but a lot of times the truth of the matter is you're buying crap, for the sake of the immediacy of getting to have.
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I recently watched a program called "building Alaska", people living a natural life; if they needed some wood, they cut down a tree, took it to a neighbor, and cut it into planks; if they are hungry, they shoot something, or go fishing, if they want to give someone a present, they make it, perhaps get someone to help them. My childhood was a halfway situation, you bought stuff from a local, family owned store, and that stuff would be grown/slaughtered locally, or made in the same nation. Now life is so "fake"; food is processed mush form anywhere, a lot of what people buy is cheap tat, made to fail and thrown away, all from big global companies. I'd like to go back, but if where I work is anything to go by, there's no way British manufacturing can by competitive - the mismanagment, and attitude of most of the workers sees to that. It's possible that the fall of Chinese manufacturing could be quite soon, although India could be in a position to take over - but then I'm not to hot on world economics, and could be well wrong.
In distribution their is always a " middleman"
Nothing magically floats to your house or business
Hence why Amazon trucks deliver from Amazon warehouses.
People seem to forget Sears started in 1892
If you made a Shovel in Chicago, You could put your shovel in a Sears Catalog
Just like today in Amazons Website.
When someone in San Francisco needed a shovel the railroad brought it there.
Nothing much has changed.
Distribution has been big business for a long long long time.
Companies that sell Malware attached to fraudulent cheap clothing.
Wont last very long. But your money does go " pooof "
One things humans have figured out very very well.
How to steal money and get away with it, or make it straight out legal.
Nothing magically floats to your house or business
Hence why Amazon trucks deliver from Amazon warehouses.
People seem to forget Sears started in 1892
If you made a Shovel in Chicago, You could put your shovel in a Sears Catalog
Just like today in Amazons Website.
When someone in San Francisco needed a shovel the railroad brought it there.
Nothing much has changed.
Distribution has been big business for a long long long time.
Companies that sell Malware attached to fraudulent cheap clothing.
Wont last very long. But your money does go " pooof "
One things humans have figured out very very well.
How to steal money and get away with it, or make it straight out legal.
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Point being that Temu cuts out that middle man.
Like Dell once did.
Transport is not part of their core business and therefor left to postal companies. They don’t bother with distribution either.
Apparently people are so used to middle men that the difference is not noticed. Website - click/buy/pay - package at the door.
Like Dell once did.
Transport is not part of their core business and therefor left to postal companies. They don’t bother with distribution either.
Apparently people are so used to middle men that the difference is not noticed. Website - click/buy/pay - package at the door.
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Sadly ( imho) even if they are in the geographical Europe, they are not into geopolitical/economical EU anymore Randy, Brexit happened some years ago.
I didn't find your comment upsetting at all but saying i'm in Asia is as wrong as it can be from a scientific point of view: you could say we all are part of the same continent and refer to pangea too. 😉
Culturally we are really different: history is, religion is, political is,... and even geography is different! And don't take me wrong i talk from first hand experience as my brother is married to a second gen chinese girl (born in France from refugees) and my nephew are mixed culture. 😉
Because salesman never used the " Cutting the middleman"
approach before.
Groundbreaking
Let me guess " Temu" actually manufactures all that clothing.
None of it comes from other manufacturing plants in China
Its basically nonsense
Its multiple businesses sending them clothing just like Amazon.
Companies spend billions establishing a brand.
Why the middleman nonsense works. The clothing has no branding.
It is exactly the same as Amazon, Manufactures sending product to be distributed
by someone else. They dont have quality goals, They have quantity goals.
And the " App" is full of malware selling your info. Just like the rest
approach before.
Groundbreaking
Let me guess " Temu" actually manufactures all that clothing.
None of it comes from other manufacturing plants in China
Its basically nonsense
Its multiple businesses sending them clothing just like Amazon.
Companies spend billions establishing a brand.
Why the middleman nonsense works. The clothing has no branding.
It is exactly the same as Amazon, Manufactures sending product to be distributed
by someone else. They dont have quality goals, They have quantity goals.
And the " App" is full of malware selling your info. Just like the rest
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All nice and such but they will have lower costs and they’ll possibly be a threat to amazon.
I have seen the middle man approach entering our society and saw both the positive and the negative aspects. For instance the electronic part distributors destroyed small local companies. Supermarkets made it difficult for various producers with cut throat price agreements. From selling/buying houses or farms with a handshake of the buyer and the seller and only a clerk making the documents to the real estate agent entering the business. Then to todays buyers AND sellers real estate agents. Yes 2 of them.
The middle man in many sectors adds little and takes a lot. Some competition by means of direct business is good. Buying fresh vegetables and meat directly from farmers is also good. In fact we see it with clothing here as well that can be bought in the producing companies own webstore.
I have seen the middle man approach entering our society and saw both the positive and the negative aspects. For instance the electronic part distributors destroyed small local companies. Supermarkets made it difficult for various producers with cut throat price agreements. From selling/buying houses or farms with a handshake of the buyer and the seller and only a clerk making the documents to the real estate agent entering the business. Then to todays buyers AND sellers real estate agents. Yes 2 of them.
The middle man in many sectors adds little and takes a lot. Some competition by means of direct business is good. Buying fresh vegetables and meat directly from farmers is also good. In fact we see it with clothing here as well that can be bought in the producing companies own webstore.
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Jean Paul did i expressed anything about religion, culture or political? I mean instead of just typing the words? No so if those are taboo words then point me to this into the rules. It's not.
The issue is when people start to discuss those words and principle behind, which i did not, contrary to you who expressed political concepts/view in multiple previous message. 😉
So please, let this aside and discuss economical... which is highly political subject! Oops... we are on a thin line right from the start of this thread.
The issue is when people start to discuss those words and principle behind, which i did not, contrary to you who expressed political concepts/view in multiple previous message. 😉
So please, let this aside and discuss economical... which is highly political subject! Oops... we are on a thin line right from the start of this thread.
Why nothing has value these days.
That is the goals of many companies worldwide.
Sell for the cheapest price possible.
Eventually product quality suffers.
Landfills fill up with throw away products.
This is nothing new.
If you want Halloween Costume quality clothing
And shoes that fall apart in months.
Go ahead and buy from the cheapest source possible.
You can feel much better that the imaginary middleman was passed.
When it is literally the middleman selling you the idea.
That is the goals of many companies worldwide.
Sell for the cheapest price possible.
Eventually product quality suffers.
Landfills fill up with throw away products.
This is nothing new.
If you want Halloween Costume quality clothing
And shoes that fall apart in months.
Go ahead and buy from the cheapest source possible.
You can feel much better that the imaginary middleman was passed.
When it is literally the middleman selling you the idea.
My Amazon purchases are limited to CDs/SACDs etc. and even that's not much. I buy a lot from local stores and from Canuck Audio Mart (CAM). For Audio stuff I am loyal to CAM, Solen, The Parts Connexion and Take Five Audio.
For electronics it's Digikey and Mouser with occasional purchases from the DIYAudio store and others who post here.
The probability of me using Temu is very very close to 0%.
It's usually a race to the bottom so it may well replace Amazon.
For electronics it's Digikey and Mouser with occasional purchases from the DIYAudio store and others who post here.
The probability of me using Temu is very very close to 0%.
It's usually a race to the bottom so it may well replace Amazon.
Krivium, just joking and also pointing to the moderators remarks. Cal Weldon, canadian so both anglosaxon and french influence (best of both worlds 😀), teeth of titanium, fists of steel. Don’t fool around with Cal.
Those Italians are not daft. They know paint sticks to rust very well (just not for long)
Temu middleman claiming they bypassed the middleman.
Is pure salesman nonsense to sell cheap junk.
They are not a manufacturer.
They are online check box that take your money like any other.
Including the malware that sells your info like the others.
The real men aka the " middlemen" actually make the products.
Load the products then deliver the products.
So funny desk jockeys dont realize your easier to replace.
And just like homeless junkies, your only skills are legal stealing.
Until the real men remove you.
Desk jockeys writing the software to replace them.
Like labor training the men to replace them.
Is pure salesman nonsense to sell cheap junk.
They are not a manufacturer.
They are online check box that take your money like any other.
Including the malware that sells your info like the others.
The real men aka the " middlemen" actually make the products.
Load the products then deliver the products.
So funny desk jockeys dont realize your easier to replace.
And just like homeless junkies, your only skills are legal stealing.
Until the real men remove you.
Desk jockeys writing the software to replace them.
Like labor training the men to replace them.
If they only offer the website maybe?!
Apart from Temu possibly not being what it claims to be I have no problem whatsover cutting out the middle man in many sectors. I feel it as a kind of support to buy products straight from producers/private persons, book rooms directly at hotels etc. Like it once was, I liked it better. Cheaper too. Hate taxes too so win-win. "No bill please" 🙂
IMHO the worst are the middle men selling exactly the same stuff as the chinese webshops. Also I don't think Amazon is much better from ethical point of view than its Chinese competitors. From who did the chinese companies learn the trade?
Apart from Temu possibly not being what it claims to be I have no problem whatsover cutting out the middle man in many sectors. I feel it as a kind of support to buy products straight from producers/private persons, book rooms directly at hotels etc. Like it once was, I liked it better. Cheaper too. Hate taxes too so win-win. "No bill please" 🙂
IMHO the worst are the middle men selling exactly the same stuff as the chinese webshops. Also I don't think Amazon is much better from ethical point of view than its Chinese competitors. From who did the chinese companies learn the trade?
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