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Chinese immigrants in the U.S. are running Temu shipping centers out of their homes
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Things like using surveillance to figure out when your payday is and raising prices (just for you, and just on that day) because you psychologically are more willing to spend in that moment
That's fucked up. Why this legal?
We let them and also you need quite a lot of skill to overcome it as it is a kind of a cat and mouse game. And there's a end game of "tell us who you are or else we don't tell you the price, or we tell you only the 'highest price that nobody pays' "
Perhaps it's not a lot of skill needed, but a particular set of skills