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I'm curious. Did you ever send an order to China? So if I make a thing that can't be digitally copied easily I'm safe???

• riskable 10y ago
  Bespoke everything is the future of retail goods. Imagine if every product on Amazon was custom made for you. A Chinese seller could do it sure but you might get suspicious of the 4-6 week shipping time and it would be blatantly obvious where it was coming from. With the cost of 3D printing, CNC, and laser engraving dropping faster than a Miami facelift it's inevitable.
  • dredmorbius 10y ago
    I think you're vastly underestimating the economies of mass production and the complexity costs of even templated or made-to-measure items. Yes, you'll see some degree of custom manufacture, as exists now in furniture and a few other areas. But in too many cases, the costs of mass production and available efficiencies are simply too great to compete with. Apple's devices, as an example, are not custom-specified, but are offered from an exceptionally small number of variants.
• benmorris 10y ago
  To answer your question no we don't ship to China. Ripping off our main image was enough to recreate our product (poorly).