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The real question is why people buy such products, and the answer is because the quality for that specific price point is decent. When you buy Anker for exampl
by rvnx 1y ago
The real question is why people buy such products, and the answer is because the quality for that specific price point is decent.
When you buy Anker for example, you are buying, pure China products, but still a very good choice.
Many US companies choose to manufacture in China because the tooling is more advanced than in other countries + scalability is high.
If you buy a 2 USD dress don’t expect it to be super high-quality but at the same time the price is reasonable for that.
- Ekaros 1y agoAnd often when I am charged 5x or 10x for something here I have no idea if the manufacturing price was 2x or 3x and thus higher quality with better QC and so on. Or does that money just go to bunch of middle-men and to bottom line of the local seller.
- fakedang 1y agoAlso the factory that produces the $2000 luxury dress is often the same one producing the $2 Temu version. The former has a specific yarn, strict QC, lifecycle audits, the works. The latter uses the cheapest available yarn, no QC and crappy packaging.
- blub 1y agoPure China products with Western QC on top and somebody to sue when things go wrong. Turns out this matters. But it’s still better to buy made in EU/USA.
- RealStickman_ 1y agoMy favourite example is cables. I can either buy a Chinese-made product locally, or get a similar quality for a tenth the price on Aliexpress.