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[โ€“] Blackmist@feddit.uk 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I don't see why it would only be Chinese immigrants doing it.

It's all over the place.

It's all fun and games until you're left with a bunch of crap you can't sell, or it turns out you were shipping dangerous products and now you're on the hook for it.

Enjoy your 5% profits though.

[โ€“] socsa@piefed.social 14 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah this is literally just the newest version of what people have been doing with Amazon and Ebay markets for like 20 years. Anyone can bulk order random shit on Alibaba and then mark it up for the US market. This is just cutting out the middle man.

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