> I gladly buy from local EU businesses, but not if they're just a middleman charging an unreasonable fee for importing Chinese-made products. I bought LED str

> I gladly buy from local EU businesses, but not if they're just a middleman charging an unreasonable fee for importing Chinese-made products. I bought LED string lights from a local company (Clas Ohlson in Sweden), and very similar looking lights from Temu. Clas Ohlson: wires isolated from each other and running perfectly parallel to each other through the entire string. A nice power converter. Lights all identical, properly secured. Made in China. Temu: wires nearly touching each other in multiple places. No power converter, you plug the thing directly into the power socket. Lights embedded every which way. Made in China. Quite often those "unreasonable fees" are for quality control