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'''[[Wikipedia:Shopee|Shopee Pte., Ltd.]]''', commonly known as '''Shopee''', is an e-commerce website, founded in 2015 in Singapore, operating primarily in southeast Asia and Latin America. Shopee operates under [[Sea Ltd]], which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the $SE ticker.<ref>https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SE</ref> | '''[[Wikipedia:Shopee|Shopee Pte., Ltd.]]''', commonly known as '''Shopee''', is an e-commerce website, founded in 2015 in Singapore, operating primarily in southeast Asia and Latin America. Shopee operates under [[Sea Ltd]], which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the $SE ticker.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sea Limited (SE) |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SE/ |url-status=live |access-date=19 Mar 2025 |website=yahoo! finance}}</ref> | ||
Shopee serves as [[Amazon]] for the East outside of China, being named the largest e-commerce platform in southeast Asia, with almost half of the the region's $47.9 billion in total gross merchandise volume in 2023 being attributed to Shopee.<ref>https://momentum.asia/product/ecommerce-in-southeast-asia-2023/</ref> | Shopee serves as [[Amazon]] for the East outside of China, being named the largest e-commerce platform in southeast Asia, with almost half of the the region's $47.9 billion in total gross merchandise volume in 2023 being attributed to Shopee.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ecommerce in Southeast Asia 2023 |url=https://momentum.asia/product/ecommerce-in-southeast-asia-2023/ |url-status=live |access-date=19 Mar 2025 |website=Momentum}}</ref> | ||
Shopee is known to engage in unethical behavior similar to Amazon. While Shopee does not sell the majority of its products directly and relies on a vast number of sellers to shape its online marketplace, the fact that unethical or illegal practices have been allowed to continue for years and are still present to this day without any intervention suggest that Shopee is complicit in misleading customers. | Shopee is known to engage in unethical behavior similar to Amazon. While Shopee does not sell the majority of its products directly and relies on a vast number of sellers to shape its online marketplace, the fact that unethical or illegal practices have been allowed to continue for years and are still present to this day without any intervention suggest that Shopee is complicit in misleading customers. | ||
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Shopee enables its sellers to completely change a listed product in title, description and images, while retaining reviews of the originally listed product. This allows sellers to boost newly launched products which would not yet have any buyers, to have glowing 5-star reviews off the bat. | Shopee enables its sellers to completely change a listed product in title, description and images, while retaining reviews of the originally listed product. This allows sellers to boost newly launched products which would not yet have any buyers, to have glowing 5-star reviews off the bat. | ||
[[File:Shopee manipulated product listing carry forward old reviews.png|thumb|Product review hijacking example: Multiple 5 star reviews on the Shopee product page of a Dell UltraSharp U4025QW monitor dating back as early as June 2021. The Dell UltraSharp U4025QW was announced on January 3, 2024 and "available globally beginning February 27, 2024."]] | [[File:Shopee manipulated product listing carry forward old reviews.png|thumb|Product review hijacking example: Multiple 5 star reviews on the Shopee product page of a Dell UltraSharp U4025QW monitor dating back as early as June 2021. The Dell UltraSharp U4025QW was announced on January 3, 2024 and "available globally beginning February 27, 2024."]] | ||
In the pictured example of a Dell UltraSharp U4025QW monitor, there are multiple 5 star reviews on its Shopee product page dating back as early as June 2021.<ref>https://shopee.sg/%E3%80%90Same-Day-Delivery%E3%80%91Dell-UltraSharp-40-Curved-Thunderbolt%E2%84%A2-Hub-Monitor-U4025QW-i.231994510.7691275253</ref> The Dell UltraSharp U4025QW was announced on January 3, 2024 and "available globally beginning February 27, 2024."<ref>https://www.dell.com/en-sg/blog/meet-the-new-five-star-certified-monitors-for-eye-comfort/</ref> | In the pictured example of a Dell UltraSharp U4025QW monitor, there are multiple 5 star reviews on its Shopee product page dating back as early as June 2021.<ref>https://shopee.sg/%E3%80%90Same-Day-Delivery%E3%80%91Dell-UltraSharp-40-Curved-Thunderbolt%E2%84%A2-Hub-Monitor-U4025QW-i.231994510.7691275253</ref> The Dell UltraSharp U4025QW was announced on January 3, 2024 and "available globally beginning February 27, 2024."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Yoon |date=3 Jan 2024 |title=Meet the New Five-Star Certified Monitors for Eye Comfort |url=https://www.dell.com/en-sg/blog/meet-the-new-five-star-certified-monitors-for-eye-comfort/ |url-status=live |access-date=19 Mar 2025 |website=Dell Blog}}</ref> | ||
==Forced app download== | ==Forced app download== | ||