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China is paradoxically filled with brilliant engineers making genius products, and mediocre engineers making products whose listings appear to be genius. I fuc

• jacquesm 3y ago
  That's a great observation. I've bought stuff there that I could not even believe was as cheap as it was, I thought the price must be a typo and for sure it'll be adjusted. For electronics the pricing tends to be lower than the BOM at maximum volume discount when sourced from a large Western supplier. And the vast majority of it just works, though I've had one or two duds. But you need to be sharp when it comes to things that plug into a wall socket, open them up to inspect that they are safe.
  • chpatrick 3y ago
    I think electronics are just super cheap to make and they're overpriced when sold abroad.
    • distract8901 3y ago
      Electronics are crazy. Depending on the amount of skill and/or effort you have available, there is an enormous spread of possible implementations at different price points. For instance, I develop a product that we sell for $2500. When the company brought me in, the raw cost of the electronics was about $250. Right now I've got it down to $50, and I expect it to fall to $20 or $30 once we start producing at scale.
      • i386 3y ago
        You’d want to hope your margins are that good distributing and marketing physical products. Gets expensive particularly if you’re retailing it and the retailer chain wants your margins for the honor of distributing with them!
• permo-w 3y ago
  I think we can describe that as just being filled with lots of engineers
  • RajT88 3y ago
    Fair.