[EDMW discussion] Shopping using Pinduoduo 拼多多 (PDD)

[Krabs.]

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I suspect is state driven to penetrate and control.

1) they deserve a bigger share of the profits compared to importer buy $1 flip to $3 , leaving the china factory only 50cent profit above 50cent cost.
they deserve justice

2) yes i do think there is state support or subsidy because foreigner's cash can help their factories stay afloat during low domestic consumer confidence .... china spend more money to suppress internal rebellion than external defence .... people with no income and hungry stomach cause rebellion ... it is preventable ..... subsidizing a few loss-making warehouse and cargo ship is small cost

 

[goodidae]

1) they deserve a bigger share of the profits compared to importer buy $1 flip to $3 , leaving the china factory only 50cent profit above 50cent cost.
they deserve justice

2) yes i do think there is state support or subsidy because the need foreigner's cash to help their factories stay afloat during low domestic consumer confidence .... china spend more money to suppress rebellion than external defence .... people with no income and hungry stomach cause rebellion ... it is preventable ..... subsidizing a few loss-making warehouse and cargo ship is small cost

Any supernormal profits will be eaten up by PDD, not the factories.

Factories not making much $ is both a structural n a demand problem. PDD killed most middlemen in cn and became the largest middleman. Now small/mid factories all become price taker in PDD. A factory don't want to sell in PDD? Good luck in finding other middlemen to distribute your products. All dead liaoz. Sell in PDD? Play by all the rules set by PDD where an fxxking ai bot is the arbitrator.

That's y PDD not scared to burn money de. They know if they win the customers, they have logistics n Chinese factories by their throats.

Of course we consumers win lah. But we r all consumers and producers at the same time. We need to make sure we r not working in low/mid-end retail/manufacturing/e-commerce. Can't fight.

 

[jtsh55]

Anyone here encountered seller asking for shipping address in China?

I had bought so many items without any problem, except for this seller asking for my CN address.

 

[sango65]

Anyone here encountered seller asking for shipping address in China?

I had bought so many items without any problem, except for this seller asking for my CN address.

hmm, did you check the product listing that the product cannot ship to Singapore like this?

 

[jtsh55]

hmm, did you check the product listing that the product cannot ship to Singapore like this?

Their product listing got show "SG 包邮" which was why I had bought it.

That's why I don't understand why the seller is asking me for the shipping address in China.

 

[SPEED]

Their product listing got show "SG 包邮" which was why I had bought it.

That's why I don't understand why the seller is asking me for the shipping address in China.

Nvm just find another seller of the same item and purchase it to send to SG.

 

[dexboi]

Anyone here encountered seller asking for shipping address in China?

I had bought so many items without any problem, except for this seller asking for my CN address.

just reply "地址确认没错, 谢谢!"
what for tell them you in SG.
sellers in China can't be bothered. lol.

also abit of common sense ...
if you don't reply they also can't do anything either.
sellers have to obey shipping deadline and ship out as-is.
if they don't, your order gets auto-cancelled and you get voucher.

 

[HougangKid]

Anyone here encountered seller asking for shipping address in China?

I had bought so many items without any problem, except for this seller asking for my CN address.

Sellers aren't given your SG address. They are given the China warehouse address that PDD assigns to them. So just ask the seller to ship it to whatever China address they get.

All sellers only ship within China. It's the platform that ships to SG, not them.

 

[jtsh55]

Nvm just find another seller of the same item and purchase it to send to SG.

This is the cheapest seller for the facial cleansing mousse.

just reply "地址确认没错, 谢谢!"
what for tell them you in SG. sellers in China can't be bothered. lol.

This is my first time encountering this, which was why I am asking here.

Sellers aren't given your SG address. They are given the China warehouse address that PDD assigns to them. So just ask the seller to ship it to whatever China address they get.

All sellers only ship within China. It's the platform that ships to SG, not them.

Got it, thanks for your help.

 

[liangtam]

Don't reveal it's to ship to Singapore.
The seller doesn't need to know it. And seller may sometime use it to their advantage to ship inferior or spoilt goods knowing goods sent overseas cannot easily return.

SG Shipping is a scheme by and arranged by platform automatically, seller need only ship to the address the platform give to them

 

[Goodshot]

Anyone here encountered seller asking for shipping address in China?

I had bought so many items without any problem, except for this seller asking for my CN address.

This type just reply ok and click refund lo , sometime the 'ship to sg' is set by false

 

[jtsh55]

Don't reveal it's to ship to Singapore.
The seller doesn't need to know it. And seller may sometime use it to their advantage to ship inferior or spoilt goods knowing goods sent overseas cannot easily return.

SG Shipping is a scheme by and arranged by platform automatically, seller need only ship to the address the platform give to them

Understood, so that's how it works. Thanks for your tips.

 

[jtsh55]

This type just reply ok and click refund lo , sometime the 'ship to sg' is set mistake

I already replied to seller to ship to the warehouse address which PDD assigned to them.

 

[bumdssa]

My Food purchase from PDD clears custom surprising fast.
I'm expecting the delivery to my door steps should be on this coming Saturday.
The trend I spotted is that if the Ship depart on Friday, by the coming Wednesday, it should arrive Singapore, by Saturday, I should be receiving the parcel.

my parcel arrived at customs a few secs earlier than yours but still not cleared yet

 

[jtsh55]

just reply "地址确认没错, 谢谢!"
what for tell them you in SG.
sellers in China can't be bothered. lol.

also abit of common sense ...
if you don't reply they also can't do anything either.
sellers have to obey shipping deadline and ship out as-is.
if they don't, your order gets auto-cancelled and you get voucher.

Yeah, I know about the common sense on the unable to ship within a specific time period and order gets cancelled eventually.

Just only the part on seller asking me for the shipping address which I don't understand and that's why I posted here.

 

[amazingone]

Yeah, I know about the common sense on the unable to ship within a specific time period and order gets cancelled eventually.

Just only the part on seller asking me for the shipping address which I don't understand and that's why I posted here.

The seller might not seen the warehouse address before thus they asked, encountered similar seller query in the early days of taobao shopping.

 

[jtsh55]

The seller might not seen the warehouse address before thus they asked, encountered similar seller query in the early days of taobao shopping.

I see. Anyway the seller had already prepare to ship out the product, so it's all good.

 

[Kitaro9202]

anyone get those keyboard from pdd price seem very attractive if compare to custom keyboard the price alot diff

 

[droidlover5000]

started moving. Took 3 days to clear customs.

 

[Krabs.]

buy household cleaning liquid ok ? non-flamable

buy 18650 li-ion battery ok ?

what happen if rejected by warehouse ? will get refund at no $ loss ?