 Online shopping is great, but has anybody else also noticed like some weird things happening over the past couple years? Hey there, njrew22.com here with another little general interest vlog And this is about the freak show that online shopping has become before we get started I just want to say that global commerce on paper at least Hey has some wonderful opportunities that weren't possible, you know 50 years ago You know it's like you can actually find something incredible from across the world in another country Especially like food products and stuff the global market has made it possible for things to happen Now of course There's a lot of bad things that come along with that but we can get into that in another day Like you shouldn't be able to eat these like exotic fruits all year round because your body was designed to eat them in Your local whatever I can go on and on I really think there's just a few companies that monopolize these worldwide markets and I think that is Propagating this problem into a real real everyday thing for everybody and in this case It's like the the combination of the Ali Baba and Ali Express company out in China. They're like as big I don't nobody knows what they really make but they're probably as big as Amazon then you have Amazon You know the Amazon FBA now they have it's called the fulfillment by Amazon And then and to some degree at a much lower percentage is eBay, but they're killing everybody with this shopping now Let me give you an example here so you can kind of get the gist because maybe I'm not making my point good enough I was looking for a mini chainsaw I have a real big chainsaw here at home But I was looking for something small and cheap to cut branches like that are in tight locations that I don't really I Don't want to it may be too close to a house or a pipe something small and light and manageable Look up mini chainsaw on Amazon and over here You'll see these are just I think 10 or so of the results that we got now Let's read off the names of these things and they all look pretty much identical. Okay, F EZD or Feezy D mini chainsaw, and then you have this next one here Wegged Wegged mini chainsaw. Here's another one Toriza Toriza Mini chainsaw and then here's what NBW mini chainsaw and then this one Dyson I guess they're trying to make it sound like a Dyson vacuum and this and then they start getting ridiculous NXOWZF I can't even say it and there's a couple here that are generic four inch chainsaw and mini cordless chainsaw And here's another one. That's completely unintelligent. It's not a freaking brand name Le Cabe Le Cabe What is going on with that? Here's another one Vagavigo Chainsaw and this one I swear to God. This must have been just a joke AOEIUV It's like they took the AEIU of the of the vowels AEIU vowels, but they mixed up I don't know have you noticed they're all the same exact freaking prod product and there's a difference in price and maybe 20 bucks or 30 bucks between Them it's like a monkey through like alphabets darts at an alphabet. It's ridiculous Now you can then again you can get these exact same stupid Plasticky junky things on Ali express because nobody uses not many people know how to use Ali express And it's a little bit different There's no prime or anything that you can get these things for about 20 or 30 percent lower than what you're seeing on Amazon Which is marked up? Independent sellers and if you go on Ali Baba you and you sign up for an account you buy in bulk by like a hundred or a thousand of these Things you'll end up paying like sixty to eighty percent less. I think you can get these stupid Chainsaws for under ten bucks on Ali Baba, but you got to buy a hundred of them Now who wants to buy a hundred units just to save forty bucks on a piece of crap fire hazard Saw that's gonna break. Anyway, now. I just want to let you know This is this is the what tens of thousands if not more a hundred thousand or more Entrepreneurs are doing on Amazon. They want to make it rich on FBA and I'm not knocking these small businesses This is what capitalism is all about However, while it's nice to see these independent people making a few bucks reselling Chinese junk, you got to see the bigger picture It's still a monopoly between China and Amazon You know China junk in the king of logistics and you know, thanks to this technology We have this this crap is starting to just invade It's making it hard to find good things these days when you have a hundred identical items being listed on Amazon It's muddying the waters to find Good products, maybe no one makes a little product like this But and if they do it's probably two or three hundred dollars all these people doing FBA are getting sold Something that's really not the case They they work their butts off and they don't a lot of them don't even make the six figures You'll see them on tiktok and Instagram saying oh, I make all this money But first of all you got to bust your ass seven days a week And it you can get disrupted in a heartbeat and your revenue will tank So I don't know I they're just getting a tiny slice of the pie compared to what these other corporations are getting And you know who loses you the consumer you like these videos Please hit the bell subscribe and love that that that time. 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