No one in this article is crying about “direct” competition on eBay or Amazon. What’s at issue (originally) is that USPS effectively subsidizes those Chinese sellers such that they can offer free or much reduced cost shipping. Then, if you or I want to send something overseas, via USPS, we get dinged hard, to pay for the e-packet program.
The middleman markup (from responsible sellers) does provide service: A US address to send returns to, much easier communication between customer and seller, etc. Whether one chooses it is up to them.
When you look at it, buying in bulk and reselling should be viable / competitive, but the USPS policy of robbing Peter to pay Paul (so to speak) makes it pretty rough on Peter. Are you saying you are in favor of such policies?
Oh, you never ever send stuff back to China. Once I heard another woman say, “I buy from X, you get great deals on about 75% of the things you buy. The rest goes to Goodwill.” You still get the bargains.
Read my post. I only addressed the guy’s statement that people where cutting out the middleman and eliminating jobs. Nothing else.