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eBay kind of got eaten from all sides: Amazon took over the regular stuff, Etsy got the niche and handmade stuff, Alibaba and Aliexpress got the cheap Chinese s
by opportune 8y ago
eBay kind of got eaten from all sides: Amazon took over the regular stuff, Etsy got the niche and handmade stuff, Alibaba and Aliexpress got the cheap Chinese stuff outside of Amazon.
So a lot of what's left as a regular user are scams or simple resellers. Amazon also has a lot of the "garage sale" type of stuff these days
- Springtime 8y ago> Etsy got the niche and handmade stuff, Alibaba and Aliexpress got the cheap Chinese stuff outside of Amazon In my previous searches of Etsy so many of the results were comprised of cheap (originally), mass-produced products masquerading as 'hand-made'. Peppered among them are actual hand-made or vintage goods but I'm not sure if Etsy was intending to address such listings, though things may have changed from when I stopped browsing (a couple years ago).
- yzb 8y agoI use eBay mostly for the resellers, i.e., when I need to buy some Chinese crap but I can't wait 2-3 weeks until it arrives here, so I buy it from some reseller in my country. Back in the day, before aliexpress, it was good too because you could rip off the sellers. Just claim the thing never arrived and since for cheap stuff they had no tracking numbers the seller always had to refund you. You could get TONS of free stuff that way. Now aliexpress does this right and it's significantly harder.
- opportune 8y agothat seems pretty immoral