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Strangely enough when I first saw the Orange Screw site I didn't think it was real because the only product measurements given are in old style imperial units.
by Lio 6y ago
Strangely enough when I first saw the Orange Screw site I didn't think it was real because the only product measurements given are in old style imperial units. Maybe real but not something I'd trust to order from.
It seemed suspicious to me that a site claiming to sell world wide with foreign currencies accepted wouldn't show metric units for their product.
I can't put my finger on why exactly but it just looked weird.
- scoopertrooper 6y agoNot defending US Customary Units, but is it unreasonable for a product to use the dominant form of measurement of the country in which it is manufactured and primarily marketed towards? https://www.orangescrew.com/pages/where-to-buy https://www.orangescrew.com/pages/where-to-buy
- Lio 6y agoAh maybe that's it. If they were geared up for a single market with it's own units that would be fine but this site is also selling to global consumers too. You can select language and local currency. It's like someone lifted the stuff from the US domestic website for a brand and started using it to sell worldwide without the brand knowing. Seeing something priced in my currency but measured in Smoots. :) It just looks... funny.
- marcosdumay 6y ago> primarily marketed towards That's the main part. Where it's manufactured does not matter, what matters is that by using US measurement unities, they are making an implicit statement that it's a US-only product. That right near an explicit statement that it's not US-only is somewhat confusing.