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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I got some temu stuff. A 7$ bag heat sealer. Works perfectly fine.

However, I do not abide surveillance pricing. I can defeat the surveillance pricing but the procedure annoys me, so I've gone back to aliexpress which is easier to defeat.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What is surveillance pricing? Are they like using cookies to subtley raise the price on thing you're searching for?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Things like using surveillance to figure out when your payday is and raising prices (just for you, and just on that day) because you psychologically are more willing to spend in that moment

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's fucked up. Why this legal?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because we live in a capitalist hellscape and the companies that implemented these tricks were the fastest growing segment of our economy for like 15 years (esp after the 2008 crash) so the government turned a blind eye. Now they control the world and are able to literally buy politicians

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I've heard that if we vote, all these problems will go away. But every time I vote, there's never an option on the ballets for "Guillotines"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

You need to vote for people that will PUT guillotines on the ballot! If there are none, find someone who will, or be the change you want to see.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

The free market will provide guillotines if the people truly want them. /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We let them and also you need quite a lot of skill to overcome it as it is a kind of a cat and mouse game. And there's a end game of "tell us who you are or else we don't tell you the price, or we tell you only the 'highest price that nobody pays' "

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Perhaps it's not a lot of skill needed, but a particular set of skills

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Cookies and fingerprinting, yes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I took would like to know as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Any tips on defeating aliexpress pricing? I stopped buying because everything was up so much.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's a process for me, I open hundreds of tabs, save all URLs, strip trackers from URLs, remove duplicates, then I reload all tabs into a fresh, empty multiaccount container, then I use a scraper addon called gatherfromtabs to pickup all the prices, then I log and setup everything up to the last page of the sale, I tally up all the totals in excel, order by price, usually 100s of ads, find the absolute 3 cheapest ones, review the ads really thoroughly to avoid scams and then buy 10-20x of whatever this item was to make it worth my time.

This process will become more difficult over time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I mean, I rather not, but I rather not pay extra for nothing, usually saves 10- 30%

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

maybe it's because i've been watching too much of the office lately but I expected you to end this comment with:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Create a new account each time with a new email address (outlook works fine). Profit of unlimited "new customer offer". You can even do it for each article you purchase.

With this, I bought a lot of 1 cent crap when it was a thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

ya with how expensive plastic crap is nowadays in most stores, why not just buy from a place that sells the same thing that represents more closely to the price of manufacturing them? Of course I wouldn't buy any tech stuff from there, but a simple plastic container? Temu for sure!