Lower purchase power, but still demand and no supply. Chinese vendors and dubious quality fills the demand - that's why it works.
The Internet is in everyones cell phone, the marketplaces do local marketing to get a audience, and then they hide/don't make it obvious the fact that it's an international order - fulfilment can be local/china.
Only USA/China, had a good agreement, that, benefitted China for some time with epacket mail being very very cheap, but still at a time where there were constant flights, air mail was affordable and customs would exempt lazada purchases under a certain value in SEA -
Sometimes Lazada sellers would "fulfill" from Taiwan, but ship from China, as Taiwan is an ASEAN nation, and are exempt from the tariffs and such that general China may face.
The Internet is in everyones cell phone, the marketplaces do local marketing to get a audience, and then they hide/don't make it obvious the fact that it's an international order - fulfilment can be local/china.
Only USA/China, had a good agreement, that, benefitted China for some time with epacket mail being very very cheap, but still at a time where there were constant flights, air mail was affordable and customs would exempt lazada purchases under a certain value in SEA -
Sometimes Lazada sellers would "fulfill" from Taiwan, but ship from China, as Taiwan is an ASEAN nation, and are exempt from the tariffs and such that general China may face.
Fun games.