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[–] sore_ass_losers ago  (edited ago)

I know there's a huge issue in e-commerce: Thanks to bad deal postal subsidies, it's cheaper to ship stuff from China than domestically! So this puts domestic sellers at a disadvantage. This is definitely so with eBay, Ali Baba, not entirely sure how it works out in Amazon.

(Just FYI, this has long been used by Chinese scammers on eBay: 'Oh, you ordered an iPhone and we accidentally sent you an oven mitt? So sorry. Please return the oven mitt and we''ll promptly give you a complete refund.'

It's a scam because return shipping to China is prohibitive. I think PayPal finally added some protections, but it's an opt-in program.)

I added another comment explaining 'ePacket' elsewhere. Hopefully HuffPost losers have a sufficient grasp of economics to understand.