Some recent travels gave me the revelation that most things in the US are overpriced. When Temu/AliExpress first came around, we’d wonder how it’s possible to have things that cost a small fraction of Amazon / offline stores.

Then I saw that most of the ROW runs on the same items. Sure, the $15 backpack won’t last as long as a $300 one made from sailboat materials. But 99.9% of people on the street I passed use them for well more than 1/20th of the time my coworker uses his $300 bag. …

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...or, from the looks of them, probably longer than folks will use expensive bags here. Same with belts, workout clothes, etc. Going forward, I’d probably only benefit from US prices on only select items and def not across the board.

I can't buy from Shein or Temu because I know their folks probably labor under terrible conditions/wages. My colleague orders from them profusely but the the Temu Shrink is a real thing!

interesting, I haven’t tried clothes but did get shoes that fit well tho it’s from 1 of the bigger brands that sponsor NBA players. Didn’t get the NBA shoe of course but something else from the same brand that’s lasting longer than my old Nikes costing 4x as much

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