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It's still mostly junk. The issue is do you really want to spend time returning a $5 junk purchase? For most people the answer is no. This is just the stuff tha
by mrweasel 1y ago
It's still mostly junk. The issue is do you really want to spend time returning a $5 junk purchase? For most people the answer is no. This is just the stuff that was returned or didn't sell, imagine how much of the stuff is thrown away by the buyers.
Some things are just made to cheaply, to hit a price point people will pay. When people then buy the item and realise that it's garbage, it gets tossed. Just maybe you can't make a good air-fryer for $50, but people will see it and think "For $50 I can give it a go". They then conclude that it's rubbish and take it to the junk yard.
No, most of this stuff should never have been made in the first place. We need to stop making products that has to hit a price point, regardless of quality. We need to stop making one-time-use novelty items.
Then you have the secondary effect: Some clever business people sees this trend and starts ordering junk in bulk on Wish, AliExpress or Temu, dumps it in big boxes with a few good items (maybe) and starts their own "fake" Bin Store.
- mastazi 1y agoI can see your argument in relation to minimizing waste and the fact that many low-price items should not exist because they are not sustainable. But I'm confused by the first part of your comment because first you said > It's still mostly junk. But then you go on to say > do you really want to spend time returning a $5 junk purchase? For most people the answer is no. This is just the stuff that was returned or didn't sell so basically you're saying that the stuff in the bins is not garbage after all if I understand correctly?
- mrweasel 1y agoIt's not garbage as in it's not thrown in the trash bin. Perhaps I'm a little to happy to use the word "junk", I mean it as in terms of quality.
- rizzom5000 1y ago> Some clever business people sees this trend and starts ordering junk... Similar to lower quality made-for-outlet products produced by major brands. With the bins it seems to approach gambling on some level. Like raffle tickets, except when you lose you also have to dispose of some trash.
- genewitch 1y agoIf only there was some way for a country to make importing junk not worth it, as a way to help both the planet and its people. Oh well, we can dream.
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- sevensor 1y ago> We need to stop making products that has to hit a price point, regardless of quality. I’m not sure that’s what’s going on. The Temu-industrial complex seems to be driven by producing garbage as cheaply as possible, meme-ing the heck out of it, and pricing it so low people can’t believe what a deal they’re getting. That is, they’re always going to produce the cheapest possible item that resembles something of value. Pricing follows from that, and then you make it up on volume.
- AStonesThrow 1y ago> producing garbage as cheaply as possible, meme-ing the heck out of it, and pricing it so low people can’t believe what a deal they’re getting. I mean you basically just described Hacker News right here
- AStonesThrow 1y agoI mean you basically just described Y-Combinator and their VCs right there