“Cracking down” is among the worst newpaper propaganda phrases.
It’s meaningless and it implicitly justifies the “cracker”.
I’m pretty sure nobody loves cheap Chinese goods. It’s more people love to be able to afford eating, having a roof over their head, and maybe some shitty, but cheap, headphones.
Yeah and also, sometimes it’s really hard to find NMIC products.
Hello, fellow citizen! Nice to see you. Are you well? How is the wife/husband/partner/thruple/keyboard today? Ha. Ha. 😶
I wasn’t aware there were alternatives not made in china.
Oh no I love my RUXIBTAN earbuds and my HURQIO keyboard.
That particular strain of nonsense is actually specifically an Amazon thing, because you cannot sell “non branded” merchandise on Amazon, a policy that’s in place allegedly to combat generic whitebox goods from flooding the site. Your product has to be sold under a registered trademark, but the loophole is that said trademark does not actually have to make any sense whatsoever.
Now there are brokers who will assist anyone in registering a trademark that is literally just a random string of letters for this express purpose. All you have to do is concoct a combination that no one has used yet, and register it with the USPTO.
Therefore the entire scheme falls flat on its face, and manifestly fails to make any impact in the problem it purports to solve. But it does probably give Amazon a legal escape hatch to accusations of being a dumping ground for Chinese knockoff products, because they can point to all those trademark registrations and say, “No, see, everything sold here is all totally from a 100% legitimate brand!”
dyisland brakesor pigeon whistle at all
Love my pigeon whistle
Fine, we’ll get a bidet! TP is just way too expensive now.
get it on temu while you still can
The horror.
I don’t love em…I just have no damn choice because greed always wins
Many times I’ve wanted products. Could see it comes from Asia and don’t want to risk the quality. It’s flooded online. Difficult to find a true seller and one that isn’t just reselling that same shit I’m avoiding. It’s so irritating.
Does this mean fewer duplicate white label items?
If anything it means the duplicate white label items will be harder to spot
Protectionism in the “land of free market” (irony)
There’s probably a degree of protectionism going on but these platforms sell unsafe products
If that was the issue, they’d take steps to ensure safety, ask for certifications, etc. rather than more tariffs and lower “de minimis” exemption. Clearly these decisions are made for economic reasons, not to ensure higher quality products and protect consumers.
Which is something that can, and often does happen in unregulated free markets. The invisible hand is not necessarily very good at things like consumer protection, among other things.
