Well to have a listing site is pretty simple. Wordpress plugins do that. £1 domain £9 hosting from godaddy for a year or similar . All the rest is user traffic and user led. Money roll in? Where's the money roll in part come me from? It's a consumer site . It should be non profit. The problem is now HUKD has investment and a profit motive it will protect its position stopping any more deal sites emerge and will now distort the market to make profit. The poorest consumers will pay higher prices and the idea of this site will be completely lost. Can't you see it's completely at odds. It's a monopoly unless someone now makes a huge investment or we are protected by government. But where's the incentive for that? And it would not have been this way if our HUKD data ownership was protected by law . It belongs to those people who spend hours searching for deals. HUKD are now making money from other people's work. Directing them away from the cheapest goods in some cases and profiting. It's theft by any measure.
Also, I'm not particularly bashing Gearbest. You can probably get the exact same things though on eBay and Alibaba slightly cheaper. But both eBay and Alibaba also have their mark ups. You do realise in the long run buying direct from China will be an extremely bad thing for the UK. Not bashing you either as I do it too. When we have completely dismantled our manufacturing industry , China will of course rise our prices - and install tariffs on all goods and shift all the wealth to China. This will degrade our standard of living and leave us beck and call of China. An autocratic state that doesn't share at all our values. And we will be forever in debt and unable to catch up as we lack the access to resources China does. China would turn round tomorrow and deny us accessing resources or refuse to deal with monopolies controlling them .
Have you ever questioned how and why you can buy something from China cheaper than the cost of any UK post?? So a good travelling half way across the globe costs less than a first class stamp? You not see Chinas game plan here? They are changing our economy to suit themselves because we don't intervene in markets we are totally blind to the cliff we are approaching.