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This is one way to mitigate knock off products from China. If the shipping costs come up to the norm, they won't always (if ever) be the cheapest product so the
by caseysoftware 7y ago
This is one way to mitigate knock off products from China. If the shipping costs come up to the norm, they won't always (if ever) be the cheapest product so the real one will win out more often.
Various products will have different tipping points where it just doesn't make sense to ship and/or they aren't getting enough sales to justify it.
Personally, I like it and it seems like everyone wins.. except people who undercut the real product with cheap, inferior knockoffs.
- entropea 7y agoNonsense, not everything from China is a knockoff and there are a lot of genuine non-copied products. How weird to think their economy is just "inferior knockoffs".
- wolco 7y agoResources aren't copied and value-added products like steel aren't either although techiques to produce or grow may be. Please cite some examples of geniune products. China is known for making existing products cheaper. The techology area is mostly copy-paste.
- j-c-hewitt 7y agoAlmost any top brand you can think of manufactures extensively in China.
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- thfuran 7y agoRather a lot of name brand stuff is also getting shipped from China.
- larkost 7y agoYes, but it is being shipped in volume containers. That is both more efficient all around, and much easier for the customs inspectors to find and divert counterfeits than in waves of individually packaged items.