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It’s amazing how early Dealextreme was on this, though as a business, their success was based on exploiting the Universal Postal Union rates for China along wit
by nrp 3y ago
It’s amazing how early Dealextreme was on this, though as a business, their success was based on exploiting the Universal Postal Union rates for China along with the de minimis tariff threshold. Shein and Temu are also exploiting the latter, but have much more sophisticated operations around logistics, supply chain, and spinning up thousands of new, high mix, low volume SKUs a day, along with an insanely efficient marketing machine.
- Scoundreller 3y agodx was basically a dropshipper, so sometimes it could take a week for your item to be gathered up. Then it was usually 2-3 weeks from China for me in Canada. de minimis threshold didn't matter so much when they declared everything as "toy - $5". I'm surprised they got the dx.com domain name: must have cost them quite a penny. All dead now. Dunno about Shein and Temu, but I think Aliexpress at least charges sales tax for US purchases nowadays.