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Offline kimmy

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Re: Bargain Culture
« on: June 24, 2017, 11:44:07 am »
I often buy little gizmos and gadgets from China.   If you do as well, you can save money by cutting out the middleman.

I'm browsing on Amazon and see something that would be handy... a micro flashlight, a novel keychain tool, something like that.  I look on Gearbest or AliExpress and wow, the same thing is there at a fraction of the price.  The difference is instead of some importer bringing it from China, slapping their own logo on it, and selling it through Amazon at 1000% mark-up, you can just buy it straight from the source. Free shipping!

The only downside is this stuff takes weeks to arrive.  I often buy a bunch of stuff, forget I ordered it, and then when they start showing up in my mailbox, it's like receiving unexpected presents from a secret admirer.

 -k
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