Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
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I don't understand Temu. (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by BonesOfTheMoon to c/microblogmemes

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's literally just drop shipping

Don't run any inventory. Just take orders on a front-end website. Then buy at wholesale rates and resell at retail prices, while trying to make a margin based on the difference between the margin and the cost of advertising. It works great if you're able to get a bunch of free publicity. So you'll typically see these guys "networking" in hopes of doing an impromptu sales pitch in front the largest crowd possible. Or doing stunts to get literally anyone to look at them.

Amazon is a multi-trillion dollar industry that's functionally built on the idea of drop shipping. Jeff Bezos is just the richest incarnation of those insufferable frat-bros trying to sell you bitcoin.