Just when I thought I couldn’t love him any more, he goes and...
Yeah, like we don’t need Amazon as an intermediary.
This just helped zillions of retailers in the US who have to compete with china sellers who can ship it here for 30 cents (or free because the china government was subsidizing this).
Big boom to internet retailers big and small. eBay sellers no longer have to compete with 99 cent with free shipping from China, Large retailers don’t have to compete with counterfeits direct from China on Alibaba or wherever.
Great news!
Just when I thought I could not love President Trump anymore!
I know a LOT of Ebay and Amazon sellers here and here’s how I saw it.
China offers brand name products at dirt cheap prices HANDS DOWN. Obviously, buyers will buy eventually buy from them. BUT, the time it takes to ship and arrive most times takes MORE than 2 weeks, sometimes months.
PLUS, the E=PACKET delivery with USPS gives a disadvantage to US SELLERS who pay from their own pockets.
The beef from Ebay and Amazon sellers is that they are OK with the competition. HOWEVER, dont subsidize the competition from American taxpayer’s money that is used against the same American sellers on Ebay and Amazon.
Now I know how all those really cheap minor computer items get here. I have ordered them on ebay. Could be as simple as an SATA to USB cable to plug an SATA drive into my laptop or desktop. Or reliable earbuds.... bought 10 for 10 dollars from China. Had good ebay feedback and sales.
Long, long overdue.
More promises kept.
The Republican party could learn a lot from this. But it won’t.
I didn’t even know such a thing existed.
What crud!!!!
It’s amazing how many ways we’ve been getting screwed that we didn’t even know about!
Wow.
This man is stunningly good at his job.
I’ve bought things from China for under a dollar including shipping. I couldn’t ship them to my next door neighbor for less than six dollars.
This is going to literally reshape some Chinese shipping ports.
I’m starting to dread 2024.
about time..
prices on the wish app just shot up.
as a ebay seller I approve. There is no reason at all I should be subsidizing China..
now about the sweetheart deal amazon has with the usps...
Before he got too old to drive, my brother used to go to the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. After the last one he went to, he said that there are 1.4 billion (or whatever the number was) Chinamen and every Chinaman had a gadget at the show. I guess the low cost mail was how they sold a lot of their gadgets.
Now I won’t be able to get cheap Chinese cr@p on ebay.
(shakes head)
OK, where was Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2 and BrownKlown when this idiocy was going down?
Who looks out for the taxpayer? No-one, I guess, except PDJT.
An industry I worked in during the 1990’s was targeted by China. Factories built to export received 20 year interest free loans from the Chinese government. All goods exported from these factories to the US received a 15% rebate from the Chinese government. The workers worked 10 hour days, lived 8 in a room in the company dormatory and were paid $1.00 per day. The plant dumped untreated chemical liquid wastes directly into the river behind it.
The US factories could compete with higher labor costs because they were offset by the transportation cost and there was some value to customers for shorter lead times from the US factories. However, we could not compete with the 15% export rebate our China competitors received, the free cost of borrowing for our competitor, and the higher enviromental cost of operating in the US. Our complaints to our GOP Congressman fell on deaf ears and the production ultimately moved offshore. Many US factories invested in expensive in EPA mandated environmental treatment equipment in the 1970’s and 1980’s only to see our to allow foreign competitors to compete in our domestic market without having to clean up effluent.
Many US factories that moved offshore could have competed with Chinese factories if US trade negotiators had insisted on a level playing field. The truth is four US presidents (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama) did nothing to ensure a level playing field. They deliberately and consciously sold out American workers and the US economy. They were traitors.
Well, there goes Wish.com.
The American Ebay/Amazon sellers that cried like little *itches over the China shipping deal, STILL are buying the same products from China and selling it here.
The ONLY thing the change will accomplish is to screw consumers on the prices for products that will STILL be made in China.
I have wondered how they could ship from China FREE SHIPPING on items bought on Ebay. This answers that question.
More sanity.