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Well, facebook has done tremendous good to saree/garment makers from India by removing the middlemen. For eg: some of the best handwoven saris/garments such as

• mozumder 9y ago
  Do you have example FB pages?
• koopuluri 9y ago
  Where are you located, and how did you find out about these pages? Do you know who handles the burden of shipping to you? Do you know what the difference in price is b/w buying locally and buying from the US/ wherever you are? Would love to join some of these groups. There are a few Whatsapp groups that do these imports as well, but those middlemen slap on a significant fee leaving the creators with not much more than what they would get selling locally. Some of the original creators don't know that their sarees are being sold in the US for much higher. I've been curious about how a transparent platform would work where the platform handles the burden of shipping and international trade legalities for the creator (which can be a huge headache when selling abroad).