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How Dropshipping Ruined Online Shopping
How Dropshipping Ruined Online Shopping
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Really cool video, but I'm loving that Fender Mustang in the back, getting too distracted with it haha
Girl, you are so funny! I laughed throughout this entire video. š golden!
I hate how I have to double-check everything I buy on Etsy now, because chances are I'm paying some mass produced bullshit at a high markup pretending to be a small business.
They're getting really creative about chatting and stuff too, they try to sell the idea that they're a small business.
I learned one trick, it's to ask for reasonable alterations, if they refuse, they're most likely a drop-shipper, as most people will gladly make custom stuff.
Before that nonsense, all I had to worry about are the scammers who quickly raise their prices just to give you a DEAL by making it look like it's half or more off, but you're actually paying the same or more than you were before. Ugh.
Handmade has completely lost its intended meaning.
There's also a huge problem with fake asatruar stuff that has nazi depictions of our runes and not the authentic ones, like othala with the lil nazi booties on and not the correct version, and people genuinely don't know the difference and end up with unintended nazi paraphernalia, and Etsy does NOTHING despite this being against their ToS.
Crappy Chinese drop shipping has ruined a lot of shopping. Honestly I'm considering canceling Amazon prime over it. I can never find what I'm looking for under the mountain of cheap Chinese crap.
Where I live, at the market that happens a few times a week, its just full of people who went on a spending spree on alixpress to sell at the market. Including "homemade" stuff.
Gaby, I will give you a life tip. Buy everything by materials and ingredients
She looks way cuter with glasses
Feel free to throw rocks at my window
Amazing video! It's great to see more people pointing this stuff out. There is one other major point you missed, that I see a lot of people talking about this topic not being aware of.
It's yet another factor that works against local producers. We have a global trade shipping deal with China where our taxes are literally subsidizing the shipping cost… That's why nearly everything somehow has "free shipping" despite going halfway around the world and over-sea, and buying the littlest thing locally can be like $15-40 shipping. So our current trade policy is crushing anyone but drop-shippers (which like you say, Amazon basically is for many products).
If I try and buy something from the USA while in Canada, I'll usually be paying $30-80 in shipping, and then also hit by taxes. Buy I buy stuff from China and the shipping is free or peanuts…. It's ridiculous.
I would link the info but I'm not sure how aggressive YT is about filtering messages like that, so I'll just say to look up "UN China developing nation shipping cost".
After watching this I'm going to start a dropshipping site and just copy other people's marketing strategies. Thanks!
Already talks about politics not even 1 minute in. š
I am a classically trained silversmith and jeweler, and I sold my work on Etsy starting in 2010. There are many reasons why I do not sell my jewelry there anymore, and you covered many of them. It became very clear in the mid-2010s that artists like myself were no longer important to Etsy as they began courting these drop-shippers by gradually rolling out site-wide changes and policies that heavily favored them and hindered us. Once they officially allowed these entities to sell on the platform, they wasted no time leveraging their capital to force us out of a marketplace that, ultimately, we built.
One thing that doesnāt get discussed enough is how ruthless many of these sellers are; if they suspect that your shop or product is a serious threat or competition to them, they will use every dirty trick in the book in an attempt to completely destroy you. On top of that, these people are experts at exploiting every single tiny aspect of a platform to dominate it. One very silly example is the seemingly innocuous feature where new products you list would temporarily get ranked higher in the search results. There is a fee associated with this, so you'd normally only do this when you had to. (e.g. adding new inventory or renewing a listing.) What a lot of these big shops would do was constantly de-list and then immediately re-list their stuff over and over to drown everyone else out. (And presumably write the cost off as a business expense.)
But Etsy really showed us who this platform was for when they gave all sellers an ultimatum: offer free shipping, or Etsy will put you dead last in their search results. For those massive businesses this was a non-issueāthey were already doing this because they can get massive discounts on shipping as well as taxes, and any money they lost was a drop in the bucket to the profit they made off each item. Etsy told us: āwell, buyers want free shipping and this will help your sales! Just raise your prices to compensate for shipping!ā Which meant charging even more money for our work, in a market where we are already being buried and heavily undercut by these larger sellers. To remain competitive, you basically needed to pay yourself less for your labor, or cut corners. And thatās not even getting into my specific issue, where the cost of sending a hunk of precious metal and gems to someoneās doorstep can vary greatly depending on the locationāso itās pretty unreasonable to ask me to just pull a number from the aether and add it to the price of my jewelry in hopes that covers the cost of shipping it anywhere in the world. Obviously, this change was to help them, not us.
The entire point of Etsy was to be a marketplace specifically for the handmade; there were already countless places where these huge companies could run rampant and flood with their cheap crap. Etsy set itself apart by explicitly being the place where you could buy things that were unique and handmade; it was a siloed marketplace where we didn't have to compete against an economy of scale. Etsy was successful due to what we brought to the table, but once their corporate masters decided that we didn't make them enough money, they pushed us out the doorāall while smiling and spinning the situation through polished PR corpo-speak, weaselwords, and good old-fashioned gaslighting.
Tl;dr: as man who hit metal with hammer, i agree that etsy bad
I definitely do without before I order from Amazon
I'm looking for a shadow work journal for my daughter and hopefully a handmade one and Tik Tok has one,but has sold a few hundred thousand š®š
They also tie in affiliate marketing (scams) revenue by getting you emails and personal data to resell when you sign your first their āfree courseā ādownload guide from link in bioā itās a multifaceted gross exploitation
Mmm… Using US government as a source to talk about China's internal politics… not very goody
I was NOT expecting the total face change at 6:07
This was informative af thanks
Why are you holding your mic get a stand sister
Very well done, thank you!
Very informative video! Great job!
ruining real life shopping too
I have 0 problems with cheap china stuff, but that it's sold like high quality stuff annoys me.
I really lost interest in searching for something on amazon.
Thank you!
As a former Etsy seller I can 100% say it really is nothing like its creation. When they started pushing the sellers to offer free shipping (2018?) I smelled a rat. Sure enoughā¦..I had so many items and art stolen & Etsy never did a thing. Now they have, what like?, Super Bowl ads!? They donāt care about keeping the company as an artisan market. Is there a replacement? Oh the Wild West early days were inspired!
Pinely reference??? Instant like
omg, really? I hope you buy your "Coke" from only one store. Shopping has gotten so bad, store #2 who needs that
Etsy is not Etsy anymore
Video is so solid I subscribed.
Also skellies don't fight because Uncle Derek has dedicated his life to putting a stop to it. (It's based of a YT channel. To avoid promoting in comments I'll just say IYKYK.)
Its not even just online shopping, there are now IN PERSON dropshipping shops. Legit in Brighton (UK) there are multiple shops which advertise themselves as selling cute sanrio/trendy clothing and toys etc. But as soon as you look at the items you can easily tell they are fake and dropshipped. I think that should be illegal š . One sells these extremely low quality pokemon figures (like wrong colours, painting is not even in right places etc) for like Ā£5 each!
Look at that forklift go