Comment on Consumer groups file complaint against SHEIN for dark patterns fuelling over-consumption
cotlovan@lemm.ee 2 days ago
How is that different than any other global online market place? Even Amazon tries to put additional things in my shopping cart without me ever asking for it
andallthat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve never used SHEIN so I can’t tell if they are using these practices or how bad they are, but from the article I see they allegedly use fake urgency messaging, which I know has been sanctioned before in the EU (the company I used to work with had to rush removing it from our eCommerce site). A company can tell you that the item you’re looking at happens to be the last one in stock, if it’s true. But if they lie about it, so you rush into a decision to buy it before it’s gone, then it’s a deceptive practice.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Everyone does that all the time though. I can’t remember the last time I bought something online that wasn’t supposedly either the last one in stock or one of like 5 left. It’s obviously bullshit and everyone is doing it.
andallthat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I guess it’s one of those things where periodically someone gets sanctioned and someone else get scared and stops doing it for a while