Exploring the Importance of Delivery Times on Chinese E-Commerce Sites
How Fast Do You Want Your Orders? Share Your Preferences in Our Poll!
Hello readers,
I’m having another look at the Chinese e-commerce companies. This time, I’m focusing on the critical aspect of delivery times. How important is delivery time to you when shopping online? What do you consider the ideal delivery window?
I’ve created a poll with several options. Your feedback will help me understand consumer preferences better and I will share the results with you. Here are the options:
1. Fastest possible delivery (within 30 minutes): Do you always want your items as soon as possible, even if it costs more?
2. Economical delivery (2-3 days): Are you willing to wait a bit longer, two to three days, for a lower price?
3. Within 24 hours: Is a delivery time of within 24 hours the sweet spot for you, balancing speed and cost?
4. Flexible delivery: Do your preferences change based on the situation? Sometimes you need it now, other times you don’t mind waiting a couple of days.
Thank you for contributing to this exploration! I will use this information in one of my next articles about the Chinese e-commerce sector.
I wrote about my experiences and what I have ordered from Temu + Amazon in the USA and Shopee + Lazada in Malaysia: https://emergingmarketskeptic.substack.com/p/can-temu-take-on-amazon-and-the-rest-of-world
Temu takes 10 days or less to air ship something from China to the USA's west coast and the prices are significantly cheaper. HOWEVER, they don't pack things well (unlike Shopee sellers who OVERPACK things!) meaning I am very leery of ordering anything expensive or breakable from them. HOWEVER, I did order my parents a $20 egg steamer from Temu that I had seen on KL Foodie and they said it arrived OK BUT my mother still has to figure out the nuisances of it though as the directions are a bit vague and there can be a bit of variance when it comes to eggs and timings... However, Temu has opened warehouses in the USA and when I visit my parents later this summer, I might order a garden trellis (that would come from their warehouse), solar powered security camera, a cat collar with a camera (for fun!) etc...
Shopee can be annoying as if you orders items from different sellers, its RM3-4 for shipping from each seller...
ALSO I WROTE THIS IN A RECENT POST: "Tucker Carlson just interviewed https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1789052798870471092 an Amazon seller who appeared in a recent documentary (Amazon — Market. Power! Monopoly? | How Amazon Hikes Prices & Copies Product https://youtu.be/8L6MaNVNBuQ) and sells a $17 product - of which, Amazon takes $10 leaving him with just $7 to cover the product’s cost, rent, employees, etc. And if he tries to sell his product cheaper elsewhere, Amazon’s computers will detect it and he looses his Amazon “buy box” along with most of his sales....He also said that the Chinese make up roughly half of the top sellers on Amazon as they can still undercut American sellers after Amazon’s take (something that is also happening on the ground in Nicaragua: Chinese Megastores are Suffocating Nicaraguan Businesses)...."
FRANKLY, I would rather wait 2 weeks and get something alot cheaper from Temu at the source in China than give Jeff Bezos $10 of a $17 item!