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True but bear in mind that most of those things are made in China whether you buy them here or on Temu, or Amazon and may even be the same product from the same
by mytailorisrich 1y ago
True but bear in mind that most of those things are made in China whether you buy them here or on Temu, or Amazon and may even be the same product from the same factory.
Platforms like Temu allow you to buy essentially direct from China and to cut many middlemen.
In hardware you have state-of-the-art PCB and assembly providers in China, who don't "skip" anything compared to European ones. Of course you have bad apples, too.
So there is a balance between paying more for quality and subsidising inefficiency and middlemen.
- fxtentacle 1y agoI don’t think that’s a good example, because for common order configurations Aisler located inside the EU is actually cheaper than JLCPCB or PCBWay. Or was it your intention to point out that when Chinese companies follow all the rules, their price advantage mostly vanishes?
- mytailorisrich 1y ago> Or was it your intention to point out that when Chinese companies follow all the rules, their price advantage mostly vanishes? The opposite. When they follow all the rules their products are still 10x cheaper and end up sold here either directly through Amazon or perhaps just branded as a well-known European brand (especially for small appliances, many, many products are sourced from white label chinese suppliers). So effectively you end up paying 10x more just for the branding and middlemen.