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That's what I'm figuring. AliExpres's bread and butter is dirt cheap computer components and wholesale chargers and stuff for gas stations and the like. Their m
by xanderstrike 11y ago
That's what I'm figuring. AliExpres's bread and butter is dirt cheap computer components and wholesale chargers and stuff for gas stations and the like. Their margin on that $100 android tablet is big enough to cover the shipping loss on hundreds of $0.03 buttons.
- nebula1 11y agoAliexpress won't loss money, but vendors do.
- tempestn 11y agoThen why would they sell the 3-cent buttons?
- cconcepts 11y agoSo that people who need a 3-cent button use the service, are impressed by it and become higher margin customers later on.
- tempestn 11y agoIs there really any vendor loyalty on a site like AliExpress though? It just doesn't seem that likely to pay off. On the other hand, I assume the amount the vendor is losing on a transaction like this is also minuscule, so maybe it would.
- cconcepts 11y agoI feel like I'm subconsciously much more loyal to services I have used than I would otherwise like to think. There is so much other stuff going on and I just can't be bothered going through the (probably easy) task of understanding a new service. So I just go back to the service that I've already used, know works, and does amazing things like ship 3 cent buttons for nothing.
- tempestn 11y agoBut it's not the service you need to be loyal to in order for this to pay off, it's the specific vendor selling that 3 cent button, since they're the one losing money on the transaction.
- Freak_NL 11y agoMost vendors on AliExpress only sell such low-cost items in lots, so you could, for example, only buy these buttons by the dozen. Although that still means you end up with a margin that is ridiculously instead of ludicrously small.