• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Weirdly enough, the washing machines I’ve seen here in China aren’t that cheap, like 800-1500 USD price range, and they tend to be much smaller than the US ones.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Stuff made in China for domestic use bears little to no resemblance to the stuff that Chinese factories are contracted to make for export.

      So much so that two doors down from my work is a place that does a booming business whose sole purpose is to allow people in China to purchase made-in-China stuff that’s only sold in the US that they can’t get at home and ship it back to China. It sounds absolutely asinine but there’s a huge market for it and those guys are busy all day long packing stuff up and cramming into shipping containers to send right back to where it was made… but can’t be bought.

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        7 hours ago

        Incredibly clever, businessfolk & manufacturers in China. Some will tell you “hoverboards” were essentially invented in the bars of Shenzhen.*

        Are external factors preventing them from selling directly to the audience you’re describing?

        Edit: *source