Bargains are good, I like them too, but it's sometimes fairly easy, if you know a little bit about how these things work, to spot the ones arrived at by exploitation.
Take a product at a remarkably low price, take off the VAT, take off the retail margin, the wholesale margin, the import duty ( if manufactured outside the EU ) the shipping costs, the manufacturing margin and the raw material costs, and have a stab at what was left to pay the poor sod who made it.
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