Unfair competition

[NZBrenda]

I have a tshirt shop on Zazzle, (and a few other stores). I was not happy today to to scroll down to the bottom of a zazzle site page to see a row of tshirts for sale on Temu. Now I love buying certain things from Temu, but I sure cannot compete with them on the price of tshirts!

I'm happy with good healthy competition, like with other Zazzle sellers. But Temu?

[Jadendreamer13]

I don’t buy anything on Temu. They are notorious for stealing other creators’ work.

[NZBrenda]

I'm a poor pensioner. Temu is the only way I can get anything other than the basic necessities of life.

[NZBrenda]

I don't buy clothes from Temu. I buy things I need for my home. Tools, couch covers, and the odd gift is all. Temu has a lot of different sellers on it, like alibaba. I guess there are good and bad operators on there, just like everywhere.

[NigelSutherland]

I suspect it's a Google AdWords panel that Zazzle incorporate for the revenue it can bring. They should have the ability to block certain advertisers, especially competing businesses. 

[orientcourt]

I agree,  they must be making good income from these sites otherwise why would they go there! 🙄

[NZBrenda]

I expect you are right about it being Google AdWords. But they really should exclude an outfit like Temu who with the variety of products they have would compete with almost everyone on Zazzle. Not good for us. We get a pittance from each sale as it is and to have to compete with Temu is just not on.

[Barbara]

I scanned through some of your tees, those of others, and some of my own but saw no outside ads at all. I checked my ad blocker just to make sure, and it's not blocking much of anything on Zazzle. Now, the question is why are you seeing those (reprehensible) Temu ads while I'm not?

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[Jadendreamer13]

Possibly they are ads targeted to her since she buys items on Temu?

[Barbara]

Maybe a Temu cookie on the computer?

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[NZBrenda]

That's a possibility. I'll clear cookies and see if it helps. Thanks.

[NZBrenda]

That's definitely possible 🙂 thanks.

[PenguinPower]

Could be because you've never bought anything or clicked on a Temu ad before... Google loves to pummel you with things you've been looking at, even things that you've already purchased. 

[ColsCreations]

I get the ads in the MP, never on individual product pages or Collection pages.
This at bottom of main St. Pats page:

This at bottom of a home & living page:

and this at bottom of a wedding search result page:

So it's more like the ads are based on how they relate to the current thing you're looking at, not targeted to your past browsing history.

[Barbara]

I tried every which way in the MP and got no sponsored ads. Nada. I must have set up my AdBlocker Plus so those ads don't show. I don't remember doing this, and there's nothing in its dropdown tools to indicate this, but it's the only thing I can figure.

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[NZBrenda]

The worrying thing is - just because some of you can't see the ads, does not necessarily mean others coming to your shop can't see them. You may have said you don't want to see them but they may still be visible to potential buyers. That worries me.

[ColsCreations · Accepted solution]

If you are on the Zazzle home page and click the St.Pats Day link at top, you get this page:
https://www.zazzle.com/st+patricks+day

Using that page as test, I get the ads on the bottom in Firefox, Chrome and Edge, the three most popular browsers 😮 (not counting Safari). I do not get the ads in Opera, Brave or Vivaldi. So yeah, going to depend on the viewer's own browser, settings, and any third-party blockers & such they might have. The ad revenue generated must outweigh the risk of possibly sending shoppers off elsewhere.