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@Nickle314

Жыл бұрын

The threat of removing the subsidy is a major weapon the US can use. Look at these items, its items with low value, but a large labour input because labour is cheap. Remove that, and you get a lot of unemployment, and so unrest, in China.

@scottdoesntmatter4409

Жыл бұрын

If free shipping from China is so very bad for our economies, why can't our govt negate said agreements that made it possible in the first place? I'd vote for whoever who tried to do it.

@Nickle314

Жыл бұрын

@@scottdoesntmatter4409 Trump was going to do that. My view, its quite a big stick.

@Will_Smith_Slapping_Xi_Jinping

Жыл бұрын

Hey @Serpentza brother, I've noticed Wumao targeting Spanish language channels in a more pernicious way than is normal. We have to correct course and cease the CCP false narratives, man!

@georgehollingsworth2428

Жыл бұрын

I am REALLY getting sick of your sponsored ads appearing in your presentations. They seem to be getting longer with time. I pay extra for KZread to not send me regular ads, and I hope that they come up with something where I can do away with this new plague of "Sponsors" as well.

How the hell does a nation with a space program, nuclear weapons with delivery mechanisms, high speed rail, and is likely the second largest economy considered a "developing" nation?

@shushup6557

Жыл бұрын

They aren't but it suits them to say they are.

@coutou5302

Жыл бұрын

Pollution covering skies, water toxic enough to cause cancer, rock plantation, painting the hills green to pass fiscalization, rat head in my food is duck head according to the government, uniformized urban bullies, rural uniformized bullies, graduates working on the field, social credit score, trapping people inside their houses during quarantine, concentration camps, and the list goes on... This is how they manage to finance all these things, by slaving their own citizens.

@hansbass8119

Жыл бұрын

Because for all their bluster about progress and uplifting poor people, the majority of chinese in china is still poor as dirt. When they say they "uplifted" poor people, they actually just lower their standard of poverty (i think to 1,2 dollar per day) when compared to other country (US is $35, UK £6.67, India $7,5, etc)

@OneAdam12Adam

Жыл бұрын

Because China is still a trailer park with leaders who have sinister intentions.

@A-Milkdromeda-Laniakea-Hominid

Жыл бұрын

Well.. let's not forget their 2 Billion people. That's a lot of mouths. Seriously. They take advantage of the fact that they have millions upon millions of poor people. The cities have everything, the nation has a space station, but the rural peasants live hand to mouth. It's BS but it's also truth. China is the land of facades after all.

The problem is that if you buy something from your local store all they do is buy it from China and overcharge you

@Frankonero12

10 ай бұрын

This exactly. Most of the stuff on Amazon too. It's the same chinese stuff with a different name on it (and a different price tag of course).

@nitro8529

10 ай бұрын

Finally someone that got the point... Its even more sinister than that, they buy cheap parts in china, assemble it in your country, put a "made in USA/Germany/Europe" or whatever sticker on it, and than overcharge you. So theyre also lying straight into your face...

@DeadStawker

10 ай бұрын

I came looking for this exact comment. Local commerce is literally the same product but with an inflated price

@Crocalu

10 ай бұрын

I think that really depends on the store. You can always ask a clerk where a product is from. If you're just looking for the cheapest product it's more likely to have been made in china

@keithb6717

10 ай бұрын

At least part of the money supports local workers truckers etc. Don’t you pay attention? Maybe people who don’t pay attention are the problem!

One experience i had is that i needed a very niche and specific cable which cost $1 on Aliexpress and all sellers on Ebay and Amazon (who probably procured the product from Aliexpress) were selling it for upwards of $10. In a situation like this I can't find a way to justify paying 10 times more for the exact same product when China wins either way.

@user-zc5jz6bh2r

10 ай бұрын

I agree. Also lets not act like angels when it comes to usa's position in the world. 50% problems directly or indirectly caused by usa for profit. Like if they were in china's position, they wouldn't use this cheathole to destroy other country's economy? I dont think so.

@Frankonero12

10 ай бұрын

And you shouldn't. There are a lot of lazy ass resellers all over the world who would happily sell you the same chinese stuff for a big markup. What you can do is find out if someone in your country actually produces the thing you were looking for and buy from them to support your local economy. If you can't find one in your country, then buy from china.

@user-pj6gw8fu2u

9 ай бұрын

It can be 10x better 😂😂😂

@thefreedomguyuk

9 ай бұрын

You do get crappy quality. Look for better, non-chinese products.

@peterlongprong7521

9 ай бұрын

its like these YT content providers that show how they go into their local Dollar-Tree and buy out products, then mark up the untouched products for x10 to sell on eBay and Amazon. - just ripping people off, its disgusting. - they are like that jerk who bought out all the hand sanitizer in his city during Covid and stored it in his garage so he could price-gouge.

This is probably one of the most important videos ever posted on KZread. It easily summarises both the geopolitical and economical entanglements that rule the world and that directly affect our daily life. Watching and sharing this video is a civic duty Hats off to @serpentza

@sallybrite1530

7 ай бұрын

But it's disingenuous, to say the least, to place the responsibility for this system on the person buying a backscratcher from Chinese websites. The issue is much bigger and beyond the control of the public. It benefits corporations and stockholders of the big businesses who are importing everything from China and selling it to us here at ten times the price, while not giving back enough to the local economy. My local garden store is selling huge garden tables and benches made of literal tons of solid concrete, which are shipped from China. That should not be possible.

@zw.drawing

5 ай бұрын

I am a foreigner who has been to China many times and if you have been to China you will not believe this video blogger's content China is said to be broken by the West for 30 years but they are getting better and better with their own space station, 5G, Beidou GPS, best transportation system... TikTok lets the world see more truth... The Chinese environment under the lens of the BBC is gray like a filter from hell, without blue sky and white clouds, which is the most obvious bias!

@Kunfucious577

3 ай бұрын

Yeah. I always wondered how.

@alaskandar

3 ай бұрын

@@sallybrite1530Absolutely

@VVayVVard

3 ай бұрын

@@sallybrite1530 You can contact your local representative and ask them to put more of an effort into removing China's privileges within the Universal Postal Union Treaty. That's where the main imbalance ultimately stems from.

This is a much bigger problem than anyone realizes, but Amazon has benefitted from this loophole just as much as TEMU. Tons of listings on Amazon ship strait from China. Most of this stuff infringes our patents, copyrights, and trademarks.

@5aitama638

Жыл бұрын

True but Amazon ships like 70% of the products itself thats how they pay the drivers and such.

@NoBodysGamer

11 ай бұрын

No, whats shipped from china re 3rd party sellers, its not amazon

@MamaMOB

11 ай бұрын

And yet we do nothing about it. You know we can't really do anything about China since there are different country with their own laws but we can actually do something about here in the US. We could actually make it illegal to import knockoffs. But we don't. Wonder why that is?

@ronaldellis4662

11 ай бұрын

​@@MamaMOBmaybe because of bezos and his chinese cronies!?!

@SargeScum

11 ай бұрын

It seems like we need a new video on this topic.

I was an EBAY seller of Sterling silver bracelet beads and did this for eleven years. I was just a small-time seller, but managed to keep my head above water until the Chinese sellers entered the market, selling the beads at an impossible price. 1. Counterfeit merchandise, hallmarked as solid sterling, but just silver plated and 2. free shipping that costs Chinese vendors nothing. It became impossible for me to continue because I could not compete under those conditions.

@alexandera.1411

Жыл бұрын

Governments should impose sanctions and embargoes upon Chinese goods. The communists are set to capture and destroy fair markets through various devious means.

@MrWuzey

11 ай бұрын

We are a lot in this situation. When they came also to amazon using the fba thing, it was the nail in the coffin.

@breakaway2x

11 ай бұрын

But it's not China's fault. It's Americans who are buying it up because it's cheaper. Tell Americans to pay more money for american made products. Simple as that.@@MrWuzey

@yty1941

11 ай бұрын

@@breakaway2x "for american made products" Chinese vendors proceed to mark their products as "American" 🗿 (just like how you blur the boundary between genuine and counterfeit ones)

@jamesjonnes

11 ай бұрын

The shipping is free because of the US government.

I'm endeavouring to avoid all Chinese made products, but it's almost impossible due to companies not being made to be totally transparent.

@jessicafoley1435

10 ай бұрын

It’s hard because a lot of things are made in China nowadays

@brooklyn5755

10 ай бұрын

@@jessicafoley1435exactly!!

@VVayVVard

9 ай бұрын

I just try to avoid consumption, and whenever I need to buy something, I try to find durable products (usually Western / Japanese etc brands with quality assurances and long warranties) and buy second-hand if possible.

@peterlongprong7521

9 ай бұрын

There's a video here on YT where a pro-American family took a test to ONLY use American-made products - the TV show emptied out their entire house except for some silly lamp they got on a road trip - all appliances, furniture, clothing, beds, computers, sockets, anything stamped as foreign-made was removed = the house was unlivable and they were left naked. - pretty shocking episode as to how reliant the US on others in daily life.

@VVayVVard

9 ай бұрын

@@peterlongprong7521 It's not so much a matter of reliance as it is a matter of cost. People who gravitate heavily toward cheap prices without considering quality will naturally tend to fill their homes with Chinese products. This is partly explained by the advantages China has due to its 'developing' status as well, the topic of the video, but lack of regulations on toxins (found in high quantities in many Chinese clothes articles) as well as lack of quality control are also major factors.

I found a couple of chairs via Etsy for $200 but the cost of shipping was $250 from Florida to Delaware… our Giverments kept telling us “we cannot compete with with Chinese Labor” but the fact is WHO can compete when the TAX PAYER picks up the shipping from Shanghai to your door!

@codymcginnis7837

7 ай бұрын

That’s not a fact that’s a question

@jussikankinen9409

3 ай бұрын

Save nature

@HaRacycEBLErAtIng

24 күн бұрын

@@jussikankinen9409 from where, which one!

What makes me mad is the lies. I have friends in Africa, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, and others, and they tell me that sending something to China costs a fortune, but getting something from China is incredibly cheap. So while they say this is to help developing nations it's actually a lie, try and get someone to send a package from an African nation to China and see how much it costs. There something else going on here, and it has nothing to do with "developing nation" status. They're lying about this.

@BorealMushroomms

Жыл бұрын

Yeah the other part of the scam is that damaged products from China you will be told you need to ship it back for refund.. well shipping back is always so much more expensive than how much the product cost in the first place, so its never worth it to ship it back.

@sheilacoulton775

Жыл бұрын

Any country that has its own space program is not a developing country

@EliJon378

Жыл бұрын

@@sheilacoulton775 Even if that space program is just propaganda for the Chinese people. 🤣 But you make a good point.

@waixingren4198

Жыл бұрын

the tragic thing is that even if finally some preferential treatments were given to Africans, it would mean that mostly their terrible corrupted leaders would enrich themselves. or they would create hostile Frankenstein countries just like China is right now.

@EliJon378

Жыл бұрын

@@waixingren4198 Ye, African corruption is very different to Chinese Communist corruption. One thing's for sure about Africa, it's out in the open for everybody to see, China lies and hides behind the façade that they're wonderful, developed and still need WTO protections, they hide the corruption very well, in Africa the corruption is not hidden at all and they have never developed outside of colonization. Communism could never work in Africa, it would be disastrous for the continent, look at Angola with oil, gas and diamonds, total disaster.

I remember watching a news program a few years ago about a family in the US that invented an excellent rat trap. They had it patented at considerable cost and they started producing it in their garage, but as sales increased they had to rent a small factory. Sales continued to increase, then all of a sudden their sales dropped considerably. On investigation they found a Chinese company had made a direct copy of their rat trap and were selling to the USA at around 25% of their price, mainly due to their reduced shipping cost from China to the USA. The small family business soon went out of business as they could not afford to enforce their patent in China and prevent the rat trap being sold into the USA.

@sheilacoulton775

Жыл бұрын

They could have stopped china from selling it outside of china

@robertrada4783

Жыл бұрын

@@sheilacoulton775 That costs a lot of money.

@kennywang7082

Жыл бұрын

On my newly released home patent on my remote control light switch was approved by the USPTO yesterday do I license the invention to a Chinese factory or legally can they just steal it and sell it inside of Chinese mainland?

@TheWebstaff

Жыл бұрын

@@kennywang7082 its china so you can't do anything in China. You can only enforce things once they arrive at counties who enforce patents that you own. So if it's a us patent that's the US. Your patent would even apply in Europe to be fair. But Europe wouldn't even try to sell to the US because they would be made to pay if the did break a US patent.

@cybersechs1368

Жыл бұрын

@@kennywang7082 Get a chinese trademark/patent on it that's recognised in CN. They wont recognise US

We as Americans need to hold our lawmakers accountable for letting these legal loopholes stay open, and take action to cutting support to them to force them to close these loopholes, and placing China’s economic status correctly!

@Athena_208

11 ай бұрын

Totally agree.

@nitro8529

10 ай бұрын

But you see, thats what youre voting for... You are responsible for your own decline... By voting incompetent orange people or white haired mummies that are more dead than alive... Thats your own fault buddy, dont blame it on the lawmakers if you basically put their boss in place that tells them they have to keep everything as it is... Get the point????

@SofijaSofijaSofija

10 ай бұрын

There's a reason they don't want to change this. Americans want cheap labour that can produce stuff (that probably causes cancer to workers, gets microplastics in their bloodstream etc). China exploits this loophole as much as yall do

@motog-rocks6544

10 ай бұрын

How do you think USPS sign the deal in 2011! The Chinese have western leaders in their pocket.

@OhSoTiredMan

10 ай бұрын

You can try but the ultra elites pay others to find another loop hole or pass another law with a loophole.

We should reverse the subsidy so it’s cheaper to ship within your own country. The issue is that Amazon sells the exact same products as Temu but at a markup, and with a yearly member cost

@sallybrite1530

7 ай бұрын

Exactly. It's a matter of corrupt governments being in the corporations' pockets, not some everyday customer buying a mug from a website.

I was in SE Asia manufacturing machinery. My American CEO wanted to sell to China. I didn't like it as I knew they would strip our product and reverse engineer it and copy it! We had spent a lot of design and engineering time on the units we were wanting to sell. It was a market leader. We obtained patents for our products. I still advised the CEO against sending units to China. Well guess what, we did send units and shortly the Chinese were trying to sell to our customers! The CEO left the company afterwards!

@harperproduction3935

Жыл бұрын

I bet he still got his check, right?

@watchingitallhere

Жыл бұрын

Story checks out.

@syarifairlangga4608

Жыл бұрын

they sell it cheaper lmao

@stephenhensley5631

Жыл бұрын

Straight out thieves in so many ways.

@SuccessforLifester

Жыл бұрын

Now that the design is out, what product was it ?

Paid $22 to ship a small item 1/2 inch wide and 4 inches long in a padded envelope from Canada to the USA. Took 3 weeks to get to the destination. At the same time I bought a diesel heater that weighs 40kg from china and it was free shipping, took 3 weeks to get from China to Canada. The game is rigged.

@rronaldreagan

Жыл бұрын

According to winston thats fair. You live in a rich countru, thus ypu are assumed to be rich and forced to pay more so africans can pay less with the extra money they steal from you. What a clown

@User-718_

Жыл бұрын

Why would you lie about that. 40KG and it was free shipping? that's dogshit.

@ricksworlddereaux2397

Жыл бұрын

No because they calculated it all before,and still got profits,because its cheap produced in china..🤣👍🇨🇳🇪🇺and thats why china is rich..cheap.stuff selling to the west..

@web3wizard381

Жыл бұрын

That just means that China cares more about their country getting ahead then yours does. You should ask yourself why Canada has people freezing to death in Winter due to homelessness when China supports the profits of their producers.

@ricksworlddereaux2397

Жыл бұрын

@@web3wizard381 You must be insane just to compare Canada a free Country with autocratic China.🤣🤣🇨🇦🇨🇳

True. A dashcam from USA (that's listed as Made In China) was $45, shipping $15, plus sales tax of $2.75. The exact same dashcam from China was $8.73 with free shipping and no sales tax. So I have a choice of paying $8.73 or $62.75? That's not really a choice, $54 is a tank of gas now

Thank you for saying what I have been thinking for over 20 years. I work with a lot of people from China, they've worked so hard and paid tens of thousands of dollars to live the kind of life I was granted by circumstance. It makes me so mad even their hard earned dollars often go back home where some of them barely escaped alive. It's actually not hard to buy local in Australia. When I was on minimum wage (pre aged care mandatory wage increase) I'd at times buy a few extra tshirts online, but now I'm a couple hundred bucks more comfortable per fortnight I save up and choose wisely. Never trusted shein or temu purely because of how much they push their ads. Don't tell me what to do or what to buy, thanks! I'll get it when I need it. I just wish people waited until they needed things, even a tad more often. Above all, think of the bloody landfill. It's disgusting. Where I live, our recycling rubbish is not even being recycled.

You are right, I get bombarded daily by these Temu junk ads. They should regulate and put a brake on it. So irritating. Thanks for bringing this up.

@johnhoward5954

Жыл бұрын

People buy Chinese products only because they are cheap. Most of them are dupes and hardly last. In this way, China fools others.

@cubonefan3

Жыл бұрын

It’s not illegal for Temu to buy ad space. 🙄 If you don’t want to see ads then buy KZread premium , it’s like $60 a year or something. (That’s what I do)

@rolandnemeth3982

Жыл бұрын

Just get an adblocker for your browser - no ads anyore.

@TheDragonSeer

Жыл бұрын

@@cubonefan3 lol buying to block ads

@conceptcs

Жыл бұрын

Capitalism

Wow, ... I never realized that our US postal service was getting bled dry financially by having to handle the countless tens of millions of packages from China !

@cyan_oxy6734

Жыл бұрын

I mean a Postal service shouldn't need to have to make money. In general it's not a bad system china is just abusing it.

@Mobin92

Жыл бұрын

Packages that are shipped to people in the US. If the postal service is funded with taxes, that's still roughly fair.

@Ziegfried82

Жыл бұрын

@@cyan_oxy6734 anything that is not profitable needs to be subsidized, so actually yes the postal service needs to make money unless you want to pay top dollar to subsidize stupid crap. The "free" shipping needs to stop.

@apostate6849

Жыл бұрын

@@cyan_oxy6734 It's a terrible system, literally billions of dollars subsidizing China and the 3rd world

@apostate6849

Жыл бұрын

@@Mobin92 That's not how it works. Government is stealing my money to subsidize Chinese companies and giving them an unfair advantage

Many times buying on Amazon you actually buy directly from sellers located in China (Amazon marketplace). So you pay 5x the price, but the package is shipped from China anyway, using the same loophole you mentioned.

@Kunfucious577

3 ай бұрын

Yeah but you get it on time and can push a button for a refund. If you buy it from over there, it looks like a child wrapped and kicked it to the shipping office. Then they put it on the slowest boat they can find and when you finally get it, it’s the wrong item or broken and the company is not there anymore.

This should be shown to every child, every teenager as part of their education on life. We're in a greedy selfish world, and the Chinese government is taking advantage of it. Wonderful explanation Winston.

@darkerfox6246

10 ай бұрын

Ok, so tell me, if you aren't buying crap, and what you are buying is taxed by your contry, how is it smarter to get something also bought from china with 200% profit margin. you are supporting china either way, but you as a person are getting screwed over twice. profit.

@ghsu5357

7 ай бұрын

You forgot the point: US consumers are enjoying the cheap prices.

I always wondered how i could buy fully working electronic circuit boards from China for less than i can send an empty envelope across my country.

@thefreedomguyuk

9 ай бұрын

The sending of an envelope in our country is steep because we at the same time are sponsoring all that crap from Chinastan !

Sold something small on ebay and had to pay 17€ shipping fee to send from one EU country to the next. By postal rule, any non-document for the past years has to be labled as package, no matter how small it is. I was deeply upset, that I am punished like this, when I decide to trade with someone within the EU-zone, the place where we should have better deals and work together. Meanwhile I can get anything from alibaba getting shipped for almost free. This was the last time I sold something to a foreign country, it's just too expensive.

@olafschermann1592

Жыл бұрын

I have the same pain. €16 for 400km

@OracleTarotBenji

Жыл бұрын

@@olafschermann1592 ur rich tho so thats y u have to pay more

@theRPGmaster

10 ай бұрын

The EU is terrible for everyone in it. It uses the influence-grabbing tactics of the Soviet Union, aggressively silencing any oppositon. Politically it seems to take a lot of inspiration from the CCP too, but run by even more incompetent people. I have many examples of EU policies screwing over regular citizens, but nobody really listens or even believes me. Most Europeans seem completely ignorant to all of this, and that's scary.

@anavik6214

7 ай бұрын

​@@OracleTarotBenjinot everybody in the EU is rich 😂

Bloody hell, been asking myself this question multiple times. Thanks for the answer now.

I don't buy junk products from china... But now I'm gonna be seriously diligent about not supporting them at any cost. I'll spend the extra money to support my country.

@Anhonime

11 ай бұрын

I've been getting Huelwear recently to avoid unethical clothing (not a promo, just a trustworthy company I found, looking for more cos while their clothing is really good quality and ethical, it's also super minimalistic and basic)

@user-gq8rw6hf9v

11 ай бұрын

Bourgeois

@CyanideOwl

11 ай бұрын

You cannot get fun stuff from your country at a good price.

@kraljazvonimira5448

11 ай бұрын

MAGA my Friend

@hexoroid

10 ай бұрын

especially stuff u give to kids. they play with items that are Disaster for health and they do it on purpose to send their waste. its all poisoned like test it and find how much led ir has etc

I paid about $5 postage for something from Hong Kong, it cost $42 in US postage to send it back for warranty repair!

That was extremely well put. It's a very important issue. We all need to stop buying junk from China.

@superstarjohnnyecko

Жыл бұрын

​@Allan Casas but not impossible?

@idizzzful

Жыл бұрын

LOL all your "branded" stuff is made in China.

@markojelenek7841

Жыл бұрын

your iphones are made in china :)

@OracleTarotBenji

Жыл бұрын

@@markojelenek7841 these ppl are dumb so is winston lol

@tenavrisen9279

Жыл бұрын

@pizazif lmao 🤣 😂 😆

The funniest thing is that I get a Temu app adverticement just below this video 😂

I've been trying to explain this to people around me for a long time, but apparently money outweighs morals. They say I exaggerate. They also don't understand the fact that they pay for the shipping themselves, or they don't want to understand it because they want that junk so badly.

Chinas manufacturing economy would collapse if we had to pay true freight cost.

@prazofficial

Жыл бұрын

Yeah and that would be a good thing

@diegoyanesholtz212

Жыл бұрын

It wouldn't last a day.

@cheesecake7159

Жыл бұрын

I'm from indonesia, when my country raised and slapped tariff for electronics, shoe and some trash if you buy from china on online marketplace, the garbage products reduce alot after that. Nowadays they find partner who want to store their products and send it in bulk, if you buy Chinese garbage in my country it will send from local warehouse, they always can find loopholes

@Sharp931

Жыл бұрын

@Cheese Cake This how they do it in EU. Most of their warehouses are in Netherlands or Poland.

@MegaLag

Жыл бұрын

You're already paying the true freight cost. The trump administration fix the subsidised terminal dues issues in 2020 ;)

Small business owner here in Canada that manufactures electonics and ships directly to their customers. Winston's assessment of the situation is 100% correct. We are willingly exploiting local and Chinese workers by buying their cheaply made stuff from literal sweatshops, and subsidising their unfair trade practices. Lucky for us we stll have an amazing and very loyal customer base. Thank you for making this video!.

@buatlastshelter5319

Жыл бұрын

Its just capitalism 101. But now, its the east bites the west

@pcbjunkie1

Жыл бұрын

@@buatlastshelter5319 When the goverment intervenes to prop up a market, you can be sure it's not capitalism.

@buatlastshelter5319

Жыл бұрын

@@pcbjunkie1 oh sure they can. There wont be ultra capitalistic banana republic, or the american california without the US government's intervention to creat said market, they have a price, wether power, ideology, or money. Now all they need to do is to find the right loophole to exploit.

@jimhabsfan

Жыл бұрын

I'm a Canadian living in the Philippines. Do you have a need for a distributor here ?

@peekaboopeekaboo1165

Жыл бұрын

Winston has no love for the Chinese people...by saying their products are "junk".

I've been following you on KZread off and on for years, from when you were living in China I don't know how many years ago now. This one has got to be one of your best videos. Cheers,

I have adamantly refused to buy anything from Temu or any other direct sales company from China. It’s impossible to not buy Chinese made products but I try to find a alternate whenever possible. It’s not that hard to at least try. Keep spreading the word.

I worked in a UPS store for far too long. I’ve always wondered how they could possibly ship a product from china for $5 total let alone $5 shipping. We would quote shipping a package to china and it would never be less than $150.

@Leshic2

Жыл бұрын

Wow! That's a much bigger difference than I expected!

@stuart3712

Жыл бұрын

So basically a 40lb or more box?

@dkolendo

Жыл бұрын

no not a 40lb box. this’s is not china, but as an example: for a private carrier (ups or fedex) to mail a 8oz package to brazil for me was 80$ a few weeks ago. usps did it for 15.

@franssvensson5828

Жыл бұрын

Worked for the swedish Mail service in a smaller town of 20000 people, at it’s peak at 2016 we sorted over 3000 as we called them, ”China Pufs” parcel each morning for a while before the swedish government put in a extra tax for this parcels 😂😂😂 and then it died out

@tiktok_life4tech

Жыл бұрын

The Chinese seller rent a warehouse in the US and ship the mass Chinese products from the US warehouse to the local Americans

I make à point to never use products that are made or are from China I'm an electronic technician and sometimes my customers are annoyed because the parts cost à little more BUT when I explain why I do this and why I only put high quality parts in their devices, they are happy to pay a little more to have high quality parts from Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia and India in their expensive devices. (I repair and restore high-end sound systems and amplifiers, from 1000$ to 50K$ of markets value) I give them 2 years of guarantee on the work AND parts. I do this since the lates 80's and never had to re-do a job because of defective parts or anything else for that matter.

@cmlee58

Жыл бұрын

🙏@xminuson… Good for you!! Big Thanks!🙏

@midbc1midbc199

Жыл бұрын

Chinese audio has never been good 200W x 5 head unit....... weighs 2 grams in total

@DarthAwar

Жыл бұрын

China is great at Assembling Items and making plastic parts but suck at anything Electronic SoC's, Capacitors, Resistors, Chokes, GPU's, CPU's etc etc are super bad quality

@OkieDokieSmokie

Жыл бұрын

I would stop buying products from China but idk who else exports lo mein noodles 😂

@user-yx9ns1sc9l

Жыл бұрын

@@peterseth3296 things made in evil china doesnt work, it will just wear off or break down. You have a rock for your head

Wow, thank you for sharing this. It's an eye opener

A few months ago I ordered a kitchen tool from TEMU that was said to be a fruit juice squeezer. It looked like a potato masher with a bowl large enough to place an orange in, and a handle with a masher to squeeze the juice out. The picture showed it as silver gray and looked like it was made of stainless steel. The price was very low with free shipping, and would have cost me $18.00 at Walmart, not counting tax. I was so pleased with the price that I immediately went to my payment account and ordered. The package arrived 2 weeks later and I could hardly ait to open it. The item was made of light green plastic with a handle that broke the first time I used it. It was a piece of junk. I will never buy anything coming directly from China again since there is no way to send it back, plus the cost of shipping, and I would never get a refund. That was my first and last time dealing with China.

@biteofdog

8 ай бұрын

I see great quality potato mashers at the thrift stores for a few bucks.

@Woodman-Spare-that-tree

8 ай бұрын

I bought a very nice change purse from China. They shipped it all the way to my door in the UK. The price was £3 including shipping and it’s great quality, it’s lasted for years. But I’d never ever buy anything electrical from China, for safety reasons. And I’d never spend any money with China that I couldn’t afford to lose.

I have a few friends who got undercut and really had to just use local buyer's to keep afloat then lockdown and lost everything 👍well done my friend for shining it a bit for folk

I wish more people would hurry up and realize this Winston. Keep spreading the word brother👍.

@billpetersen298

Жыл бұрын

He is doing his best. The rest is up to us. Message your politicians.

@seekthetruth1478

Жыл бұрын

@@billpetersen298 ^THIS. 100%

@prazofficial

Жыл бұрын

@@billpetersen298 ⬆⬆⬆⬆⬆⬆⬆⬆FACTS⬆⬆⬆⬆⬆⬆⬆⬆

@seapirate65

Жыл бұрын

@Holy Butterfly I agree Gardio is not worth my money, piece of crap Service..Bad on Serpentze for allowing.

@seapirate65

Жыл бұрын

@@holybutterfly8495 I also am Anti China..100%

So glad you covered this topic 👍👍👍 thank you 😁

i recently send my son two kitchen towels (from San Antonio, Texas to San Degio, California) and paid USPS $18.00. The towels cost $1.00 each. Thank you for the explanation. I really don't expect things to change

You and laowhy are the best. I really appreciate your work.

This is terrible! You did a really great job, thanks a lot for sharing！👍😄👏

@giannishen

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for the red heart! 😄🙏

Sara AI is from my home country, Thailand. It's a comedic take on the current state of technology. Not an actual ai just so if anyone curious

Once I worked in a big warehouse that got shipments of cheap junk from China every single day. When unloading the containers we always had to sort out tons of wares that have been broken (or entirely destroyed in case of glassware) during transit. So about only two thirds of every shipment went into storage, the rest went right to the dump yard. I always wondered how any company can order broken trash and have it shipped around the world and still make a profit. Now I know.

Frightening. And eye opening. I mean, of course it makes sense. Its something you KNOW you know, but you don't really think about it. Absolutely sharing this with family members and friends.

@bkhustler

Жыл бұрын

stop buying rubbish

Thank you! I had no idea about that subsidy. Will be spreading this info.

Thank you for making this video.

Good message, Winston! This is the time we should be cutting down on buying useless tat, that will inevitably end up in a land fill, or in the ocean.

This is sickening. We're helping them and now they want to ruin us.

@Joe-ff1oh

11 ай бұрын

Obama did it

@12many4you

11 ай бұрын

It is the other way around. They have been trying to destroy us forever and we just started helping yhem for some reason

Thank you for the insight I failed to see for years.

I recall shipping free shopping from all around the world until the pandemic. Wealth was changed from one to another in a moment as it suddenly began costing $49.90 postage per screw.

This is a huge problem. Thank you for covering it.

@bkhustler

Жыл бұрын

huge

In UK we pay more shipping sometimes than the actual product, but returning is free from" Wish". Few years ago I bought a tablet for £50. It was very poor quality and it had 1 dead pixel in the middle. When I wanted to return it they told me to keep it and refunded me.

I really love to see how honest you are. I'm a new follower and enjoying your videos. Thanks Winston. You have opened my eyes and my mind about China. Keep up the good work and your honestly. 🙂👍

I love your videos you answer questions that would probably take me hours of research on the Internet you answer all the curiosity I’ve ever had all your videos are dope thank you so much

This whole postage situation is ridiculous. I'm selling things on eBay, and it's just impossible to compete with China. Just the postage alone costs me more than stuff delivered from damn china. The last mile delivery is the most expensive part and the USPS eats all the costs and raises postage prices for US citizens. I'm really sick of this.

@pontiacg445

7 ай бұрын

You probably just sell chinese junk anyway like 99% of people on ebay any longer. Who are you to complain that they cut the middleman out?

@chrisakaschulbus4903

6 ай бұрын

Well if the lands start flooding, maybe the farmer should look into the contruction of boats. The world isn't just gonna stay frozen so your life can tick along at its own pace.

@ronnielittle6573

3 ай бұрын

WTF ?​@@chrisakaschulbus4903

@Kunfucious577

3 ай бұрын

⁠@@chrisakaschulbus4903this isn’t a flood. It’s the other guy shooting holes in your boat and the officials watching them do it.

@chrisakaschulbus4903

3 ай бұрын

@@Kunfucious577 Better defenses for the boat? I don't think undermining the official will do much.

I had no idea, I always thought dollars and euros were worth a lot more to them so it was worthwhile to ship even for free. Thanks.

I've never bought off Temu and such, but unfortunately I have to admit there are things (mainly stationery and organizing items) that are otherwise not available anywhere else in your country, let alone at a cheap price. Also, when available, the same items on amazon - though still coming from China - cost 3 or 4 times the price, so I can see why someone would decide to go that way. Same things goes for local small businesses that buy in bulk from the same Chinese producers and sell for 4 or 5 times the price. I avoid buying both, but sometimes you just get pissed thet you get the very same item of clothing at 40€, sold as one of a kind selected fashion that's on Shein for 15 or Temu for 8.

@claytonno2571

11 ай бұрын

only way to really solve this to painstakingly either looking to where its from or buy from a reputable in-country producer.

@MartinaValla

11 ай бұрын

true. I really wish it was easier@@claytonno2571

As someone in the USA who has been directly affected by recession after recession after recession, I am forced to wonder; why the hell are we still subsidizing these other countries?

@marty13612

Жыл бұрын

Foreign aid is immoral

@cubonefan3

Жыл бұрын

American economy currently is reliant on sending low wage work to third world countries. If we can’t get third world people to manufacture our items then the prices of manufactured items, technology, and cars will shoot up exponentially. It’s not that hard to understand. We live in a global society.

@dfredankey

Жыл бұрын

@@cubonefan3 we abuse the poor that are citizens and imagine the lowballing for immigrants

@SeekingPleroma

Жыл бұрын

Because our "leaders" are corrupt, and don't care about you, they care about the money they make from their role in this.

@smokeyrobin7881

Жыл бұрын

The kickbacks.

The thing is, a lot of stuff that sells in local shops, is also just stuff from China, just much more expensive. I'm all for supporting local shops and better quality, I'd be so willing to pay more for long lasting quality products, but I slowly realized, the stuff they sell in the shops, is the same stuff that you can order from China via eBay or Amazon, but it's way cheaper there.

@brianmiller5444

Жыл бұрын

Every single item, bottom level to high end, in the local housewares big box, is made in China. Or sometimes Vietnam as the always profit maximizing ceos are seeking cheaper labor.

@mapesdhs597

Жыл бұрын

I ran into the same problem years ago, looking for a particular niche computer part. Locally where I am (UK) they could be as much as 30 UKP each, but on ebay (from China) or from Aliexpress they were typically 95% cheaper, and indeed they were the exact same item, infact they had the same factory mark on them. Something else which goes on aswell is Chinese companies understate the value of the items they export. The recipient likely doesn't mind as it means reduced or zero import duty, but as Winston says it adds to the anticompetitive edge. What's frustrating though is that some of the stuff sold on Aliexpress, at least in the tech space anyway, is actually quite good (such as new design PC motherboards using recycled/repurposed old chipsets, adding functionality that wasn't originally available), but no western company has tried to replicate such things probably because of the ludicrously strict rules that exist in the West (in the UK for example it's now almost impossible to find any high street charity shop or 2nd-hand shop which sells electronic goods of any kind, because they don't want to bother with the hassle of PAT testing and other rules).

@projektleiterin

Жыл бұрын

@@mapesdhs597 If the price difference is too high, it really makes it hard to justify paying so much more without any additional benefit except for supporting your local business. At one point, it doesn't feel like supporting anymore, but getting ripped off. To be honest, I'm always kind of afraid to by tech stuff directly from China on eBay or websites like Aliexpress. I'm not that tech savvy and am always afraid that they will spy on me. 😅I also wouldn't mind using a used smartphone, but it's the data protection aspect that prevents me from buying one. You just never know who owned it before you and what they installed on the phone.

@mapesdhs597

Жыл бұрын

@@projektleiterin Exactly, why feed the middleman when one can effectively buy direct? I've used ebay a lot, Aliexpress sometimes too, though I would not remotely equate the two, ebay is a far more reliable and decent site, one just has to be sensible like with anything else, follow the old saying, if an offer looks too good to be true then it probably is. And so far I've not had any problems with Aliexpress, infact I found the shipping bizarrely fast, which is of course the competitive problem Winston is talking about; I bought a CPU, motherboard and RAM from Ali and it arrived quicker than if I'd ordered it locally using 'free standard shipping'. Re phones, the simple key there is just to do a factory reset, wipe any non-default memory card left behind in the phone (secure erase - use a card reader in a PC or something), and replace the SIM with a new one, it'll be fine. Honestly though if one cared about such issues to any genuine degree then using any kind of modern phone at all is unwise, because all of them have continuous geolocation, etc. Or just use an older type dumb phone which doesn't have the fancy functions which make the data spying viable.

@curlyhairdudeify

Жыл бұрын

Same. I don't buy the "it's cheap and lie quality from China". All BS. It's good quality.

This was eye opening. Thank you.

There is NOTHING "fair" about people not having to pay the same amount of money.

I bought a $1.21 pencil sharpener from the big "A" (that turned out to be really good) shipped to me from China for free. I was surprised too. Took about 2 weeks to get, but I got it and it is great. It also cost me $90.00 US dollars to send a shoe box size package to my relatives in China two months ago. I get it.

@raven4k998

Жыл бұрын

you monster your part of the problem buying this crap

@yobentley7274

Жыл бұрын

@@raven4k998 "you're"

@raven4k998

Жыл бұрын

@@yobentley7274 yes call me Daddy🤣🤣🤣

@yobentley7274

Жыл бұрын

@@raven4k998 Hi Daddy. I hope you're having a good day.🙂

@raven4k998

Жыл бұрын

@@yobentley7274 yes Daddy is having a great day now do your chores🤣🤣🤣

You are so right about the nightmare it is to return stuff to China. I bought a dress for a wedding from Amazon not realizing it was from a chinese company. The dress arrived damaged albeit during transport but still it wasn't wearable. I tried getting a return label since free returns was advertised. I kept receiving non valid return labels. It cost $12.99 shipping to me. But in order to return it via UPS it would have cost me $28. I finally told them to send me a valid return label or I was going to file a complaint with the company. The dress had burn marks on the dress and was going to be trashed when they received it. I was finally issued a refund and was told that I didn't need to return the dress. Lesson learned to check where the origin of the company prior to placing an order.

@mapesdhs597

Жыл бұрын

One problem though with that company origin angle: often the marketing and product listings simply lie about it. I was looking for a particular tech item last year, again and again choosing to avoid Chinese sources. Eventually I found a listing that stated it was made in Germany. Digging deeper into the small print though, nope, also made in China. ie. what happens is the parts are made in China (sometimes the entire item sans something very minor like the cap for a switch or button, or a fuse or even just a label), but the final assembly is done locally somewhere, even if this only means the outer box, or the covering for a plug or something. This allows the product to be described as being made locally when it fundamentally isn't, another loophole which as Winston said is likely widely exploited. It extends to types of products one would never even think of. Last year I bought some half-inch plywood sheets (4 by 8 feet) for some essential repair work. The price, from a local builder merchant, was quite good compared to other sources. When I received them I realised why, they'd come from China and were of generally poor quality. I used them anyway as the work was time critical, but I did have to change how I used them to get round some of the issues (such as gaps in the bonding, uneven smoothness, non uniform thickness, etc.) I'm in Europe (UK), a region which is absolutely riddled with govt/council/media PR about green this and eco that, boasting about tree planting everywhere, sustainable industry, vast subsidies paid for such things (and hence taxes), and yet enormous amounts of timber and other materials are coming all the way from China. With hindisight, the cost of the plywood didn't make sense, it should not have been so cheap baring in mind the transport required to ship from China, so I'm sure in some manner that aspect is being subsidised.

my attention span got the better of me from those 20 seconds and now I forgot what I was going to search.

Once I sent off for a winter coat on Amazon. The photos looked good. When I received it, I got nothing more than to glorified zip up hoodie.

i don't even recall how i found you, but i'm very grateful for your truly surprising, if not different perspective or insight on something interesting and relevant if not important. thanks for keeping your drive in producing your videos!

This has been going on for years and I could never understand why. Thanks for the explanation

@tiktok_life4tech

Жыл бұрын

the Chinese sellers rent a warehouse in the US and ship the mass Chinese products from China with cheap shipping costs on each item, they send the products to the Local customers from the US warehouse.

The ai thing was so unexpected- i replayed it maybe 4 times and laughed everytime.

@Rinn_Ckhristian

Ай бұрын

I am AIIII

Aliexpress provides free return. Local shopping mall offers phone clip for $5, aliexpress offers the SAME for $1. Sometimes it's just stupid, when I see knife sharpener for $2 at AE and same sharpener at local mall for $15, but in plastic package with huge flag of Japan and caption "Real japanese sharpener". Sometimes it's just business. Buy bunch of stuff in China, sell them with 1000% overprice. People still buy it.

My wife bought me a pack of green pickleballs from Temu as part of a Xmas gift. The pickleballs were not even close to regulation size and dexterity. They were unplayable because the softness stunted the ball’s bounce. They were totally useless. That’s straight up fraud. It was a sham product.

@Will_Smith_Slapping_Xi_Jinping

Жыл бұрын

Made in China, meng. Go figure.

@artyjnrii

Жыл бұрын

Wtf is a pickleball

@michelealdworth9297

Жыл бұрын

@@artyjnrii hi there. I just found out what it is. It is a sport that looks like table tennis but is played with bigger paddles on a downsized tennis court. Look it up on KZread and you will see. They were talking about the balls used to play the sport called pickleball. Stay safe out there. Take care and God bless

@bumfist88

Жыл бұрын

your fault for buying it knowing that you were going to get screwed over

@kananeesh7900

Жыл бұрын

What’s with the HUGE push of Chinese Ads and products on KZread. Such garbage products and tags like, “they don’t want you to know this” “so satisfying”

I think Sweden (and perhaps other European nations) removed China as postal exemptions around 5-6 years ago. I remember Swedes could order single electronic components (resistors etc) for around USD 5-10 cents in total back then. Absolutely insane

@swissee2

Жыл бұрын

This is the only way that will work: Remove postal exemptions for China!

@als8627

Жыл бұрын

We can still ship perfectly to Sweden from China. DDP. We pay tax and Sweden collects. Delivery times are quite fast within 1 week you can have it. Comes with a tracknumber too !!

@Vandebilt

Жыл бұрын

@@als8627 Maybe you can but you won't. The shipping with AliExpress to Sweden is redicilous high and if I order one item for 1 USD and the shipping is 1.50USD then two items is doubled up with shipping 3USD four items 9USD aso. Chinese companies try to do anything to try to fool us. They still offer "free shipping" but adds the shipping cost (and more than that) on the item, and upon that 30-90 days delivery. Sick! Most Amazon Prime items are 10-40% higher cost than in the local store.

@MikeBrown-xh2nm

6 ай бұрын

@@Vandebilt You can always not buy😀

Your channel is priceless. It brings essential info for everyone. And ur patriotic sense explained crystal clearly is highly appreciated. Thumbs up

Aliexpress used to have "predominantly" free shipping (To Canada)... now, its harder to find free now. So I am not sure if China is just starting to charge more (to increase profits), or if our postal service has stopped subsidizing Chinese shipments. I found this comment from 2017 when the problem got way worse in Canada: "CANADA POST is sitting on thousands of containers and trailers are piled up at every major CPC processing plant. They say they make no money from delivering the tiny packets and parcels they get from China."

@SvPVids

Жыл бұрын

Not only that, now when you open a dispute its almost impossible to win now. They used to take the buyers side.

@MicheIIePucca

Жыл бұрын

@@SvPVids I agree.. they purposely make it a P.I.T.A. This is why I'd use Ebay over Aliexpress any day.

@Waverlyduli

Жыл бұрын

Say or write 'CCP', not the other way around. The China dictatorship doesn't want people easily researching its historical atrocities so it doesn't want you to write or say 'CCP'. Burning books, covering up and lying about its past is the CCP's M.O. Let's not make it our problem. Let's not co operate with fascists and never forget the millions of souls left to starve or murdered or tortured by the CCP autocracy.

@TeaBurn

Жыл бұрын

One more reason to hate Canada Post, who insist on only delivering when I'm at work at noon, and runs away to the post office immediately after pressing the doorbell (sometimes not pressing it at all, as I see on my smart doorbell cam) without waiting for someone else to answer the door, while also insisting they need a signature with no option to have a signature release like other couriers have. I can't even count the number of times they've "lost" my lettermail or parcels.

@MeiinUK

Жыл бұрын

Isn't FB and the likes and things.. are banned from China ? So how come... China can do this kind of junk ???... Oh right.. so basically... KZread belongs to Google.. and Google.. can indeed.. what... sell... advertising as well ??....

I am an American living in Germany and I have noticed that shippers from China have several advantages over nearer-shore shippers when I have stuff sent to my German residence. One such is that all of the shipping labels have no visible handling mark or postage franking on the envelope; usually, the shipper is someone in China yet the item came from someone in the same country I'm (or another EU) country ... often without a postal Customs Declaration CN-22 form attached. On the other hand, if I order something from Switzerland over a certain amount, Deutsche Post will immediately want to tack on 15% import tax on items valued declared over CHF100 in Euros plus an additional €7.00 administrative cost for handling. How is that fair? 😕

@user-so2xd7pw9l

Жыл бұрын

haven't shipping costs from china increased a lot recently. Importing to EU is anyway a pain in the A... had ordered 3D-printing in China i needed urgently tehrfore i was recommended to use direct express shipping with DHL. But actually the custom messed so long around that it took over one week. The next time then i choose the much cheaper relay shipping option and it arrived already after 3 Days. 🤯 I always eel that the authority wants to prohibit import, but actually inside the EU there are no people they wants to do the jobs.

@binal-flecki2387

Жыл бұрын

ask your government lmao

@gladiammgtow4092

Жыл бұрын

I hope climate change destroys China.

@rockyBalboa6699

Жыл бұрын

Life is not fair friend! This is some sick game played by china on the rest of the world!

@aileen9266

Жыл бұрын

This is because some sellers from China have warehouses in EU countries. So it will be shipped from there if available. If you payed the VAT you also don’t have to pay any additional import tax. Import tax is usually 19% (depending on the item) if there is no VAT. The cost for handling also depends on the carrier that brings it to you. DHL is a lot more expensive than FED Ex for example.

I once bought a decal set for my phone which came in 4 layers of packaging; I'm guess one at manufacturing level, one at wholesale and two at retail. Well, 2 years later I bought the exact same item which this time came in 8 layers of packaging and I could not fathom why such an amount was used. It seems to me China are also uploading huge amounts of unnecessary plastic onto us which we then possibly sell back to them as rubbish. Just thought I'd put that in there.

Incredibly insightful. Often wondered about this. You did not even mention the environmental damage these products cause.... Container transport and plastics/toxic contamination.

Thank you for bringing this to light for everyone!... This is actually something I dug into years ago and became aware of one of the main ways this used to occur. I will not get into the exact details, but it relates the International Postal Agreement. THAT is how (and probably still screw us to this day!) The main point for everyone to understand is that the agreement in a nutshell is that the Postal service of the "Destination" Country is OBLIGATED to complete the end of the delivery process or journey if you will, once the item makes landfall. For Canada, this usually means once hits Vancouver. It doesnt matter if the final destination is still 1,000's of km away in Newfoundland, the TREATY obligates Canada Post to use all of its required resources to deliver that parcel. Period! OK..sorry about the ramble.. In my research into this "AIR MAIL" was the easiest way for this to happen... All it took was to have corrupt Airtransport worker and ground staff in on it. They are essentially simply paid BRIBES to have their crews on the take mix in small parcels and packets into the cargo marked as AIR MAIL to be placed into the cargo bays of passenger Airlines (again.. this is in the POSTAL TREATY) These small parcels simply have faked CHINA POST stamps on them and sometimes fake franking marks that imply a Chinese firm actually paid their local Postal Service for this.. THEY HAVE NOT!.. All the labels and printed marks are completely made up ... The reason is simple.. They were NEVER actually processed in a Chinese Postal facility and were simply loaded into bulk bins by the corrupt handlers and these uninspected bulk bins are then passed through Airport sercurity by the bribed ground crews who then make sure the items are placed onto the appropriate Air Carrier for the destination country. Does anyone recall the rash of .99c items on EBAY with Free Shipping to Canada and the US years ago when it started?.. This is how they did it and do it still.. Its simply theft of legitimate Postal services and this has gone on for YEARS!

@picketf

Жыл бұрын

It's actually much simpler than that, Chinese Post made a multi million agreement with Singapore to send small packages destined for international locations through their postal service. You can google it. It's actually a few hundred tons a year of postage goods that are leaving China to Singapore to then be distributed world wide. Most postal services charge companies in China in bulk. Even here in Europe I have been working for a sports clothes factory that also had monthly fixed price agreement. We could issue our own barcode stamps directly on the parcel and the post guy would pick up a palette or however many boxes we had to ship once every few days or daily during top season. I calculated the bulk price to be about 30-40% less than a normal person would have to pay to ship using the same postal service over the counter. These barcode stamps were only separated by EU and NON-EU stickers whereas at the post office NON-EU is subdivided into zones with different price tags.

In the US, I try to buy domestically all the time. But there are certain useful items that I can only get from China. Domestic businesses can make the same items, but choose not to because they could never turn a profit. Unfortunate that these subsidies for free shipping adds fuel to that fire.

@andrew_koala2974

Жыл бұрын

THE CORPORATE elite - because of their greed and the Economic model - has killed most Domestic manufacturing by sending manufacturing to China -- Yet the people are stupid enough to keep buying it - Making CORPORATE executives fabulously wealthy and themself poor and some in poverty. And you continue to vote for and wave your miniature flags at your Slave Masters in Government who work for the CORPORATIONS and not the people. The people are blind - insane and destroying themselves and agree to be Slaves

@Chuck8541

Жыл бұрын

yeah, I like electronics, and camera equipment. Pretty much ALL of it is manufactured there. It's sad.

@tiktok_life4tech

Жыл бұрын

the Chinese sellers rent a warehouse in the US and ship the mass Chinese products from China with cheap shipping costs on each item, they send the products to the Local customers from the US warehouse.

@Leshic2

Жыл бұрын

@@tiktok_life4tech Why are you even sharing this and spamming the comments with this worthless distraction.. It has nothing to do with the point.

Thank you for the information. No more orders from Temu

Thanks this is insightful.

I strongly agree with you that Temu and similar companies are selling tons of junk that's totally unnecessary and downright wasteful, but I purchased some things from Temu because I can't afford to buy much locally. As important as it is to be aware of what companies are doing, I think it's really important to acknowledge the limited options the average consumer has, this vicious cycle has most people stuck with no options aside from fast-fashion and cheap imports because we can't afford to buy locally. The blame lies with the inspectors and lawmakers and whoever else is in charge of regulating these things! I've spent so much time cleaning and sorting my recycling only to find out there aren't enough recycling plants to handle the job, so full truckloads go to landfill, I worked at McDonald's and the "recycling" bins all went to the same garbage compactor. Corporations should be held accountable BEFORE the consumer

@kimbo99

Жыл бұрын

Somethings are only available from TEMU. 2 computer plugs dollars from China $40 from western country. And they are chinese made anyway. Likely India will go thru the same process.

@juliasutton8634

Жыл бұрын

@@kimbo99 SO TRUE they're often the same product!

It’s nice hearing from someone who actually spent time on the ground, learning the Chinese culture. Americans are fed a bunch of nonsense from our media propaganda machine. Thank you for your efforts, greatly appreciated!

What an excellent explanation! I had heard the murmurs of the Finnish Postal Service that were publicised in the media at some point, but I didn't understand the mechanism behind it. Of course, we too have this issue of high costs vs. not being compensated. Especially since this country is ludicrously sparsely populated, and the postal service is still expected to get the work done. It'll cost me around 7-9 euro to mail, say, two or three disc golf discs - very small package weighting from 350 to 560 grams - across the capital region like 30 km away.

Love your work man!

Horray! Love it when Serpentza drops another video!

That is why whenever we go to Dollar Tree, we check the tag to see if it's made in China, if it's made in Korea, Vietnam, Japan, or Taiwan, it's alright, but not China.

@knight1506

Жыл бұрын

Also beware of the products made in PRC, that’s just China in other name.

@brandon3872

Жыл бұрын

I do the same thing with anything I buy. If I can only get something made in China, I think do I really need it. I'll only buy something made in China if it's essential, and I have no choice.

@jamesrecknor6752

Жыл бұрын

@@brandon3872 SAME

@mwk1

Жыл бұрын

100% robię tak samo, zawsze, a najgorsze jest to, że wszyscy ludzie naokoło się ze mnie śmieją... wolę nie kupić danej rzeczy, aniżeli kupić "made in china". Jebać!

@sharroYT

Жыл бұрын

@@brandon3872 why

Thank you, I learned alot from your insight.

This is why we need to buy handmade stuff that is actually hand made at home 😅 like me making handmade greeting cards etc

You’re absolutely correct. The first time Ive seen this $3 redelivery fee after a “free” item wasnt delivered because they saw a dog… a dog that could not get to the mailbox nor front door…

Companies like Temu also do not pay tariff if the order is under $800 (another loophole), which is 99.99% of the order. Importers like Walmart, Target, Amazon and etc have to pay tariff. Temu will even put them out of business at this rate. Many will lose jobs and US retailer will lose b/c of our OWN doing. It is ridiculous that our government is allowing this.

@caesaraugustus3749

Жыл бұрын

It's China government now baby

@CerealforProtein

Жыл бұрын

The UPU based in Switzerland, as noted in the video, is just socialism at its core. No one is OWED sending postage across borders, let alone having it subsidized! It is not an elected governing body by the contributors, yet it acts like one effectively. The scam happy companies as you dutifully noted, find these loopholes and exploit it. This UPU, without any accountability, picks winners and losers at its own discretion. As that happens, they can bet on any undeserved winners and subsidize the program with someone else's money! Lastly, without accountability, who is to say they cannot be bought off? As Winston often states, how is China considered a "developing" nation when it has the second largest GDP and an active space program? Its so clear as day there is something fishy with the UPU and countless other organizations with "altruistic" motives - not all but a discernable pattern can be observed.

@jamesrecknor6752

Жыл бұрын

Chairman Biden and The Party will save us

@brianmiller5444

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesrecknor6752 I think your Chinese made MAGA hat is cutting off the circulation to your brain, Skippy. Better buy another flag or two to festoon your mega-pickup truck. That will make your happy.

@TheMissingDislikeButton

Жыл бұрын

They won't be able to take over them ... 2 days shipping is just too good ...

There is a lot of scams, in these Chinese outlets. I ordered a few items from a chinese company, got hte first ones, and then, when I ordered some more, again, they never arrived (payed via PayPal!).When I wrote them, they told me they were having problems with logistics and that they would take care of the situation. It was 3 years ago, still waiting!!!

I am living in the EU. Once, when I came to work I realised that I left some power cable in my car that was about 10 min away. I estimated that buying a new one from China with delivery would be cheaper for my company than asking me to come back for it. Life is unfair.

Must be similar arrangement in Australia. We used to wholesale phone accessories but it got so cheap ordering stuff from China on eBay, even I ended up ordering some phone accessories off eBay rather than from local wholesale importers. You could get a phone case delivered to your door for a few dollars, but if you wanted to send that same case to someone locally, it would cost you a few dollars! However it seems in the last couple of years, Chinese eBayers are no longer super cheap. They are only just a bit cheaper, making it more worthwhile to buy from local sellers because your product will arrive much sooner.

@jimmybrad156

Жыл бұрын

Often the quality is better when buying locally/nationally than buying the identical-looking item from china too, i find.

I work at a usps mail processing facility and we get Temu by the literal truckload. It’s been overwhelming our mail processing machines since November

@amicaaranearum

Жыл бұрын

Even at those cheap prices, I don’t get why there is such demand for that junk.

@nonyadamnbusiness9887

Жыл бұрын

Toss it in the dumpster. I consider it a patriotic act.

@pauldeddens5349

Жыл бұрын

At UPS its constant. They sell everything in huge fucking bags with labels poorly slapped on the side. They dont scan because the bags warp the label, so every label has to be manually reprinted for any of it to go anywhere.

@thinkingallowed7042

Жыл бұрын

@@amicaaranearum It isn't necessarily junk. I say that as a happy customer. What about you?

@1607Adi_Manz

Жыл бұрын

​@@thinkingallowed7042 they will never understand that not everyone can afford every thing, some times chinese alternative is all we have

Thanks for this video . ❤

The $2 sneakers shots had me in stitches🤣

This is eye-opening. Thank you, serpentza. I did not know how free shipping works.

This is making my blood boil. How can the world continue with the subsidies to China, especially today when the anit-CCP sentiment is at all time high?!

@EsthersMedia

Жыл бұрын

Amit CCP is fake in the UA

@javascript6948

Жыл бұрын

Its not surprising to me when The President of the United States is in bed with China.

@MeiinUK

Жыл бұрын

China should NOT have joined the WTO to begin with. That is for one. And second.. they should have reformed. But they didn't or refuses to be so. Then they should have created an internal UN or Chinese UN.. but then they don't. The list keeps going...

@apostate6849

Жыл бұрын

It's just a war on White people, anything that benefits non-whites is promoted

@MeiinUK

Жыл бұрын

@@apostate6849 : It wasn't meant to be as so... and I think that some people weren't very fair either... they had help from the likes of Singapore and co.. Now I get why the so called chinese dispora helped drag the entire world down.