Hacker News with Generative AI: E-commerce

Chinese Temu sellers use fake U.S. postage labels to boost their profits (restofworld.org)
Some Chinese Temu merchants are padding their profits by using counterfeit postage labels to trick the U.S. Postal Service into delivering packages for free.
E-commerce, Fraud, China, United States, Shipping
12 points by impish9208 9 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Dealswiki is a deals sharing platform you can earn money posting deals (deals.wiki)
Earn now, get 50% of the affiliate commission when you post deals on deals.wiki!
E-commerce, Web Applications, Sharing Economy, Affiliate Marketing
21 points by timothyxyang 9 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: Built A Better Shopify (that's not a rip off) (gitpage.site)
Save 360+ Hours of Development Time
E-commerce, Shopify, Open Source, Development Tools
14 points by ambitiouz 10 days ago | 9 comments
Platform for supporting local sellers and buyers (blunum.com)
E-commerce, Local Businesses, Marketplaces
15 points by blunum 16 days ago | 12 comments
Show HN: I indexed 10M Shopify products to build an API (searchagora.com)
"My wife asked me for a pair of red shoes for Christmas. I quickly typed it into Google and found a combination of ads from large retailers and links to a 1948 movie called 'Red Shoes'. I decided to build Agora to solve my own problem (and stay happily married)."
E-commerce, Search Engines, APIs
13 points by pencildiver 17 days ago | 5 comments
A loophole used by Shein/Temu to ship packages to US tax-free (2024) (businessinsider.com)
As Shein and Temu grow their foothold in the US, analysts and lawmakers are paying close attention to both companies' use of a special tax rule that some say should be eliminated completely.
E-commerce, Taxation, International Trade, Business, Law
130 points by donsupreme 18 days ago | 107 comments
Temu, Shein and Amazon to be liable in EU for 'unsafe' or 'illegal' goods (ft.com)
E-commerce, EU Regulations, Consumer Protection, Product Safety
31 points by belter 18 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: I made a price aggregator to find the best PC parts deals across eBay (pcprice.watch)
Hardware, E-commerce, Web Development, Price Comparison
20 points by tzoSkatzo 22 days ago | 16 comments
Bookshop.org is launching an eBook store to take on Amazon (theverge.com)
Local bookstores should benefit from ebooks, too, Bookshop.org thinks. Making that happen at scale will take a fight.
E-commerce, Books, Competition, Amazon
28 points by divbzero 23 days ago | 9 comments
Oops Our Bug Created a Stampede of Price Watches (camelcamelcamel.com)
If you noticed some strange behavior in your price watches recently, like duplicate alerts popping up out of nowhere, you’re not losing it. That’s on us. We had a little hiccup (okay, a big hiccup) with our system, and here’s the story.
Software, Bugs, Price Tracking, E-commerce
7 points by duxup 28 days ago | 0 comments
Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML (softwaredoug.com)
In previous posts I use a local LLM to choose which two products were more relevant for a search query (see this github repo). Using human labels in an open e-commerce search dataset as a baseline (WANDS from Wayfair), I measure the LLM’s preference for a product, seeing if it matches human raters. If I can do this, then I can use my laptop as the search relevance judge.
Machine Learning, Search Relevance, E-commerce
184 points by fzliu 29 days ago | 78 comments
American Sellers Lost Amazon to China (marketplacepulse.com)
In 2024, China-based sellers increased their market share to more than 50% on Amazon.
E-commerce, Amazon, China, Business, Market Share
8 points by bookofjoe 35 days ago | 3 comments
eBay acquires Caramel to reduce risk and complexity of online car sales (techcrunch.com)
E-commerce giant eBay has announced plans to acquire Caramel, a startup that helps car sellers and buyers complete the final steps of the transaction — including verification, financing, paperwork, ownership transfer, insurance, and more.
E-commerce, Acquisitions, Automotive, Finance
3 points by ryan_j_naughton 38 days ago | 0 comments
A free and complete E-commerce Store Builder powered by AI (storelauncher.app)
E-commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Software, Startups
13 points by tookietherookie 39 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Pixie – A tool to shop for clothes using pictures (ShopWithPixie.com)
Shopping, Image Recognition, Tools, E-commerce, Fashion
13 points by dayaya 46 days ago | 4 comments
Lawsuit:PayPal Accused of Poaching Commissions Via Its 'Honey' Browser Extension (law.com)
Fintech giant PayPal was hit with a proposed class action on Sunday for allegedly pocketing sales commissions belonging to YouTube influencers for promoting products and services in their content.
Fintech, Lawsuits, Class Action, E-commerce, YouTube
5 points by xbmcuser 51 days ago | 0 comments
The Nintendo Switch EShop Is a Bigger Slop Factory Than (kotaku.com)
If you’ve recently loaded up the Nintendo Switch’s eShop to buy something or search for a specific game, you’ve likely noticed that the digital store is filled with a lot of garbage that was likely made quickly and is only there to cash in on a trend or holiday.
Gaming, Nintendo, E-commerce, Criticism
5 points by PaulHoule 53 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Open-source and transparent alternative to Honey (github.com/Abdallah-Alwarawreh)
Syrup is an open-source browser extension designed to help users discover and apply the best coupons effortlessly.
Open Source, Browser Extensions, E-commerce, Shopping
41 points by MasterAbood 54 days ago | 10 comments
Honey's deal-hunting browser extension is accused of ripping off YouTubers (theverge.com)
The PayPal Honey browser extension is, in theory, a handy way to find better deals on products while you’re shopping online. But in a video published this weekend, YouTuber MegaLag claims the extension is a “scam” and that Honey has been “stealing money from influencers, including the very ones they paid to promote their product.”
Browser Extensions, E-commerce, Consumerism, Influencer Marketing
8 points by paulpauper 58 days ago | 1 comments
Why online returns are a hassle now (theatlantic.com)
Getting your money back is not as simple as it used to be.
E-commerce, Consumerism, Online Shopping, Returns
8 points by jnord 62 days ago | 2 comments
Amazon forces sellers to divulge COGS, won't reimburse other costs (amazon.com)
We’re updating our Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) inventory reimbursement policy to help provide you greater transparency and more predictability in how reimbursements are calculated for items that are lost or damaged before a customer order.
Amazon, E-commerce, Business, Policy, Transparency
53 points by ilamont 63 days ago | 73 comments
You Can Buy a Car on Amazon Now (wired.com)
The next time you see a Hyundai online, you may just be able to hit Add to Cart.
E-commerce, Amazon, Cars
11 points by marban 72 days ago | 5 comments
I bought an $4500 mini electric tractor off of Alibaba (reddit.com)
I finally received my mini electric loader, and I will say: The experience of buying a 1,900 pound piece of farm equipment from China was an interesting one.
E-commerce, China, Agriculture, DIY, Reviews
7 points by NoRagrets 81 days ago | 3 comments
Stripe BFCM Live (stripe.com)
Stripe, E-commerce, Payments, Black Friday, Cyber Monday
11 points by CosmosSeb 83 days ago | 2 comments
Joining the Shopify Board of Directors (world.hey.com)
I've known Tobi for over twenty years now. Right from the earliest days of Ruby on Rails, when he was building Snowdevil, which eventually became Shopify, to sell snowboards online.
Shopify, E-commerce, Business, Leadership
6 points by ksec 93 days ago | 1 comments
David Heinemeier Hansson joins Shopify's board (shopify.com)
Welcome, David Heinemeier Hansson (known to many as “DHH”), to Shopify’s board of directors.
Business, E-commerce, Software, Leadership
12 points by ibraheemdev 93 days ago | 2 comments
Chinese immigrants run e-commerce hubs out of their homes (restofworld.org)
Chinese immigrants in America are offering their living rooms and garages as warehouses to cross-border sellers on Temu, TikTok, and Amazon.
E-commerce, Immigrants, Entrepreneurship, Cross-border Selling, China
7 points by donohoe 95 days ago | 0 comments
Chinese immigrants in the U.S. are running Temu shipping centers in their homes (restofworld.org)
Chinese immigrants in America are offering their living rooms and garages as warehouses to cross-border sellers on Temu, TikTok, and Amazon.
Immigration, E-commerce, Business, Technology, Social Impact
12 points by impish9208 97 days ago | 0 comments
Amazon launches Temu and Shein rival with 'crazy low' prices (bbc.com)
Amazon has launched a new outlet called Haul which caps the price of products on sale at $20 (£15.79), in an effort to take on low-cost retailers Temu and Shein.
E-commerce, Retail, Competition, Amazon, Pricing
4 points by pseudolus 98 days ago | 0 comments
Amazon Haul–a broad selection of products $20 or less (aboutamazon.com)
Amazon has always worked to provide customers with the widest possible selection, low prices, and a convenient shopping experience, and we offer more than 300 million products across more than 35 product categories.
E-commerce, Retail, Amazon, Shopping, Products
13 points by taubek 98 days ago | 14 comments