Whats happening with chinese sellers recently?

[minimutly]

Most Chinese sellers on the selling platforms are just resellers, selling the same stuff from the same warehouses.

There are UK and EU customs warehouses who specialise in this. A supplier sends the stock to the warehouse, who store it in a bonded warehouse. Reseller does the legwork of selling it, who once sold send payment to the supplier, then the warehouse gets paid to sort out the official import and arrange delivery to the buyer.
It's why you'll often find the same product will go out of stock at various sellers at the same time.

Big exception are those doing the full Amazon FBA thing, where there is no middle man. The (re)seller has to have their own stock in Amazon warehouses, and the import tax to already be paid before it gets there.

Then there are those shipping directly from China, but again, it's largely resellers selling the same stock from the same warehouses/suppliers.

It's all a numbers game.
Nobody at any stage is really making that much margin, they're just selling enough to make a reasonable living.
Some might get lucky with a particular product and make a relatively huge margin, but it doesn't last long as there will soon be somebody else undercutting them.

Yes, except the last bit. I know personally of a guy who set up a coffee hardware company - I think he got to £3M turnover in 5 years, at something like 50% markup. Some yank sued him for infringement of copyrighted aligator emblem, took half a a mil out of court. The guy sold the business, now lives in Portugal. He used to work for the BBC....
Edit to add pic of the coffee pot his dad gave me - apparently if the packaging is slightly damaged the German customers complain, so his dad had a shed full of new stuff...

 

[AVI_8]

They also had 973 diesel heaters impounded or destroyed in December that don't appear on the list above (crappy link)

Well there’s progress for you, these heaters which were not long ago £110 are now £185 within a few weeks, health and safety say they’re not safe because the instructions don’t tell you how far to have the exhaust from a combustable material. I was going to buy one last month but obviously left it too late.
Feeking nanny state

 

[fizzy]

Anyone installing a diesel heater and not realising the exhaust gets hot wouldn't be long for this World anyway
Apparently in the USA they are now forced to put warnings on car batteries saying don't drink the contents

 

[fizzy]

Well there’s progress for you, these heaters which were not long ago £110 are now £185 within a few weeks, health and safety say they’re not safe because the instructions don’t tell you how far to have the exhaust from a combustable material. I was going to buy one last month but obviously left it too late.
Feeking nanny state

Obviously we are on exactly the same wavelength

 

[m_c]

Yes, except the last bit. I know personally of a guy who set up a coffee hardware company - I think he got to £3M turnover in 5 years, at something like 50% markup. Some yank sued him for infringement of copyrighted aligator emblem, took half a a mil out of court. The guy sold the business, now lives in Portugal. He used to work for the BBC....
Edit to add pic of the coffee pot his dad gave me - apparently if the packaging is slightly damaged the German customers complain, so his dad had a shed full of new stuff...
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I'm guessing that wasn't just purely reselling somebody else's product though.
Those who typically make big money, are those who manage to find a reasonably popular niche product, and have it custom made/customized and build a brand around it.
It's not just taking an existing generic product and selling it.

 

[James1979]

Anyone installing a diesel heater and not realising the exhaust gets hot wouldn't be long for this World anyway
Apparently in the USA they are now forced to put warnings on car batteries saying don't drink the contents

Massive heap of these at the importer - job done!

I have them all over the workshop. Even fit them to customers machines

 

[hunter27]

Update
I received the linear scales this afternoon after only buying them yesterday so I am glad I didn't push them, Just need Amazon to fulfil their end now with the DRO

 

[Morris]

Much like ours? except we get the added bonus that MRNA gives, myocarditis, pericarditis, excess deaths, huge profits, what's not to love?

All vaccines (not just mRNA ones) carry a risk of heart issues. All medicines have risks of varying degrees. Pandemics cause excess deaths, it's what they do, sometimes for years after due to negative health impacts.
What's your point?

 

[Hood]

All vaccines (not just mRNA ones) carry a risk of heart issues. All medicines have risks of varying degrees. Pandemics cause excess deaths, it's what they do, sometimes for years after due to negative health impacts.
What's your point?

Have a look at some of the debates in the commons on this matter.

 

[Wildefalcon]

And led bulbs cause Covid vaccines to make you magnetic if you are are in a 5G area, apparently.

Vaccines save lives, if you get a side effect from a vaccine, then the disease itself would have killed you for sure.

 

[Hood]

 

[minimutly]

I'm guessing that wasn't just purely reselling somebody else's product though.
Those who typically make big money, are those who manage to find a reasonably popular niche product, and have it custom made/customized and build a brand around it.
It's not just taking an existing generic product and selling it.

Well a coffee pot is a coffee pot, even if you put an emblem or motif on it. To be fair he made a big thing of the selling power of Amazon, and the 100% feedback rating.

 

[roofman]

And led bulbs cause Covid vaccines to make you magnetic if you are are in a 5G area, apparently.

Vaccines save lives, if you get a side effect from a vaccine, then the disease itself would have killed you for sure.

don't be silly with remarks like that

 

[Screwdriver]

All vaccines (not just mRNA ones) carry a risk of heart issues. All medicines have risks of varying degrees. Pandemics cause excess deaths, it's what they do, sometimes for years after due to negative health impacts.
What's your point?

I read somewhere that if a vaccine has a risk of serious adverse effect in the range of 1:10,000, it will lose its regulatory approval.

The current vaccines were given temporary approval under "Regulation 174" based entirely on data supplied by the manufacturers (BioNtech/Pfizer etc.) who are selling it while generating gigantic, unheard of profits.

Their data and test procedures are questionable to say the least (they refused to attend a hearing as required by the EU Parliament for example and the internet is full of stories of redacted documents, refusals to submit raw data, dodgy test procedures etc.)

Current levels of severe adverse reactions are circa 1:800 according to some reports (sorry to be vague, seek and ye shall find). When you try to establish "the truth" you discover that incredibly, the ONS do NOT capture the very data that would alleviate any fears of let's say "shenanigans" regarding the actual, quantifiable efficacy of these mRNA "vaccines" or even the so called excess death rate. They're technically not "vaccines" either but I am not at all qualified to confirm that statement, it's just something I have picked up which helped me form my personal opinion(s) on the matter.

Anyhow, I have resisted all attempts to cajole me into taking it again. I have a specific medical issue which puts me in a relatively small group of people eligible for "treatments" if I ever catch the damned thing. Bit of a catch-22 because a faulty immune system means I need to moderate (switch off!) my immune system to stop it eating my brains which also makes me much more vulnerable to catching it. Plus less chance of my immune system stopping it and the vaccine (which I took once) appears to have accelerated the progress of <whatever it is> I've got...

Hence my extreme interest in this matter.

 

[roofman]

I now have a vaccination exemption certificate....nuff said from me

 

[julianthegypsy]

I've just booked my fourth shot. I had a mild dose of presumably omicron about a year ago, just knocked me out for a couple of days, like a dose of mild flu. Very glad I didn't get the earlier incarnations, no regrets having the jabs and had my flu shot this afternoon.

 

[Blue Chips]

Apparently in the USA they are now forced to put warnings on car batteries saying don't drink the contents

It can get ridiculous at times, but keep in mind that in many respects the states in the USA are like 50 different countries, and a lot of package labeling in the US is written to satisfy the requirements of all states, a few of which go way overboard compared to others.

 

[tigdlo]

It can get ridiculous at times, but keep in mind that in many respects the states in the USA are like 50 different countries, and a lot of package labeling in the US is written to satisfy the requirements of all states, a few of which go way overboard compared to others.

Definitely never going to California, everything there will give you cancer.

 

[DAPPH]

I noticed a big jump in heater prices getting on for two years ago . Direct from China taking 21 days or so suddenly became only a few pence cheaper than a product stocked in a UK warehouse that was available in 5 to 10 working days

 

[hunter27]

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Just need Amazon to fulfil their end now with the DRO

Latest Update
I only received one scale not two and the amazon DRO was reported as delivered by DPD (a week early) and Handed to Spenser ? Our postcode was unrecognized with tracking number, when I let them know I got a imediate refund, they said DPD must have lost it just like that. So have ordered another one from elsewhere. I think they are all selling stock they don't have.