Seems that just having a good product - or a better product - at a more competitive price is no longer enough. A related problem is that large eSales firms like Amazon rely almost exclusively on buyer reviews for products they sell. And since most things sold on these sites are made in China.........

Here is a non-Forbes non-adblock adverse article on the same topic: https://kopitiambot.com/2017/11/29/am...

Technical magazines have been doing this for as long as I have been receiving them. Their ad value is in proportion to their subscription rates, so it is difficult to un-subscribe from them. They will ask you to pay expensive subscription prices, but if you do not, then they will ask you to pay discount subscription deals, but if you do not they will ask you to officially subscribe for free, but if you do not they will send you their trade journals anyway. If you directly contact them, and ask that you be removed, they will eventually remove you...but it is more important for you to count for ad value than for you to pay for the magazine.

Jan

It seems this article traces back some of the hassle to when the woman/customer ordered through AliBaba (?) and thus her name was on a database. I've continued the practice of only buying products through eBay and strictly from merchants/sellers within the borders of the United States. Perhaps this would prevent the unwanted inflow?

The loss of rights is embedded in the subsidy that Chinese merchants receive from the U.S. Postal Service. Read this whole article, it's an eye-opener: https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshep...

A good reason to withdraw from international postal agreements, and to either privatize or wind down the U.S. Postal Service.

Wow...shipping nothin for nothin and "the chicks for free".

LOL! Me dino was thinking that while reading the article.

The crime is in "buying votes" by sending unsolicited junk to people, then pretending to be those people to provide feedback and "hallelujah" chorus about them. I agree that it is no great crime, my point was what the heck do you do with 5000 or so plastic bracelets or whatever? I wouldn't really want to deal with a mound of junk, St Josephs Indian school has me in "dreamcatchers" the same way.

I fail to see the crime. I understand from the article that the practice is proscribed in China, but I do not find any loss of rights.
The topic post itself may be an example of the same sort of thing: a great new problem you have to deal with ... but it is not a problem at all... just unsolicited mail.

OK, when the Chinese garbage shows up, just toss it or open up the junk store on Ebay....:)

Forbes- an unending loop wasting bandwidth.
No, I will not turn off adblock, statist tool!