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by ikeboy 7y ago
Fair enough, but DDU is a good response when someone is claiming their cost to ship across the street is insanely high. If you set up an apples to apples comparison, I think China would end up slightly cheaper much of the time, but nowhere
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Fair enough, but that's because China post is aggregating it. Part of the excess cost of your moderate volume shipping is because the USPS needs to sort your mail and doesn't need to sort China's mail. I think using published
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by ikeboy 7y ago
"This item does not ship to United States"
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by ikeboy 7y ago
I'm sure that's true, but that's because you're a low volume seller and can't get the same rates that China Post can get shipping hundreds of millions of packages. (And because you don't do the research to ship
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Also note that the US delivery China is paying for is from a port to a final destination. If someone is comparing from East Coast to West Coast or vice versa, they're looking at a package traveling further in the US than the Chinese on
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by ikeboy 7y ago
The mail is aggregated at the country level, sorted, etc. To call it low volume is like suggesting someone using Amazon's FBA to ship a package to their customer is a low-volume shipper, rather than reflecting Amazon's huge scale
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Quite often. But I've also read every report the USPSOIG released about ePacket, including the last two showing it's profitable (i.e. no subsidies), along with reading the price charts published by the USPS.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm#_c139 This shows the rate for 12 oz under Parcel Select—Lightweight. Depending how closely you're injecting the product (how many miles the "last mile"
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by ikeboy 7y ago
China post is mailing hundreds of millions of packets. Comparing their rates without taking volume and presort discounts into account is going to be misleading.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
I literally linked the price sheet showing that it's wrong, did you not read my comment? >Combined with China subsidizing shipping for export-based businesses, it was generally cheaper for a business in Shenzen to ship small/li
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by ikeboy 7y ago
I often hear the claim that it's more expensive to ship within the US than from China but rarely see it backed up. I've yet to see anyone give a specific size box, weight, and locations for comparison, and the few times they have
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by ikeboy 7y ago
No they don't. They repeat a false claim uncritically. If you look up the cheapest US shipping rates you'll find they're roughly the same range, and that almost all the comparisons purporting to show otherwise are cheating, t
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Speedtest showing download speeds 3X slower (around 35MBPS vs 110). On PIA, which costs me around $3/month when I buy yearly, I get around 75MBPS, it does hide IP, and I can select the country and region I want. Also it's availabl
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by ikeboy 7y ago
If it's profitable for anyone to resell, that implies the company priced below the market price and there would be a shortage without scalpers. So the company is unable to meet the needs of its customers in any event. Scalpers just mak
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by ikeboy 7y ago
>Which, as I said before, is only some of the time, but even under that assumption... The only scenario where it's not is if the demand curve is perfectly inelastic. If the price is set at $100, and selling it for $400 instead doesn
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by ikeboy 7y ago
>But that doesn’t seem true. There’s no reason to think that person who “won the lottery” would be willing to sell the ticket for the same price they bought it for. Instead they would likely sell it for a similar price to what the scalpe
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by ikeboy 7y ago
What law does using a bot to make a purchase against ToS violate? The LinkedIn case shows that it's not illegal in some cases - would you classify the behavior of the defendant in that case as malicious?
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Maybe I'd believe that if they stopped saying things like scalping harms the producer, and acknowledged that they want a less efficient market.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Increasing price only reduces consumer surplus when it's the same consumers who buy. This is not the case when there's a shortage of tickets at the original sale price, which is the only scenario where scalping is profitable. Scal
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by ikeboy 7y ago
I'm well aware that many economically illiterate people like to scaremonger about scalping. That doesn't make them right.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
if they're running on AWS, which most crawlers are not When I've run scraping software in the past I used DigitalOcean, which doesn't contain a requirement to abide by robots.txt. As far as I can tell it's both legal a
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by ikeboy 7y ago
>This type of attack hurts multiple targets as well: the ecommerce site has real frustrated users who can’t purchase the in demand item. The real users who are losing out on inventory to an attacker who is just there to skim off the larg
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by ikeboy 7y ago
What does that have to with my point? Bots used to purchase inventory (and that aren't otherwise commiting fraud by using stolen credit cards or something) are not malicious.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
By moving the goods to those willing to pay more for them, which increases consumer surplus, which means the market is more efficient. It's fairly basic economics.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Only two of those are malicious. Buying products at the price offered is perfectly legitimate, regardless of all the scaremongering to the contrary.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
>Another trend we have seen is the increase of the combination of bots with botnets, particularly in the world of inventory hoarding bots. The motivation and willingness to spend for these bot operators is quite high. >The targets are
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Every company tries to accelerate revenue and delay expenses. Nothing wrong with that, and if everyone knows about it it's hardly misleading anyone. They all take it into account.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
The Fed can't directly influence real interest rates, only nominal. What exactly are you claiming interest rates are "artificially low" compared to? The scenario you describe can't happen. If money is so easy that it&#x2
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by ikeboy 7y ago
This is wrong. The risk free rate is equal to the real risk free rate plus expected inflation. If there's a significant risk of excess inflation, then the yields on treasuries will rise correspondingly.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Interesting movie but they couldn't make up their minds about what the rules were. Every stated rule was broken when convenient.

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