• @Creeoyfred
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    71 month ago

    Any tips on defeating aliexpress pricing? I stopped buying because everything was up so much.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 month ago

      It’s a process for me, I open hundreds of tabs, save all URLs, strip trackers from URLs, remove duplicates, then I reload all tabs into a fresh, empty multiaccount container, then I use a scraper addon called gatherfromtabs to pickup all the prices, then I log and setup everything up to the last page of the sale, I tally up all the totals in excel, order by price, usually 100s of ads, find the absolute 3 cheapest ones, review the ads really thoroughly to avoid scams and then buy 10-20x of whatever this item was to make it worth my time.

      This process will become more difficult over time.

      • archomrade [he/him]
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        11 month ago

        maybe it’s because i’ve been watching too much of the office lately but I expected you to end this comment with:

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      Create a new account each time with a new email address (outlook works fine). Profit of unlimited “new customer offer”. You can even do it for each article you purchase.

      With this, I bought a lot of 1 cent crap when it was a thing.