>>So, fellow forumeers, what gives?
I am not sure of the economics of this, nor how anyone can make a profit, but in downtown Santiago there are many Chinese importers / Retailers. I know a couple of them quite well.
They sell counterfeit stuff where I can't see any profit in it. They'll sell a 32GB USB stick which when you try to use it will fill up at 2GB. I'd have thought that after making a USB stick, packing it, shipping it and retailing it then for £10 there'd be no profit in it.
Ditto all Apple equipment from cables, chargers to earpods. It's all crap. Spares for cars, bikes and scooters, especially electronic stuff.
But it's not good stuff nicked, it's s*** stuff copied.
I have a little bluetooth receiver designed to be plugged into the phono/input socket of just bout anything in order for my phone to play audio through it. A great little device. I have two; an original one which I paid about £8 for and a Chinese fake for which I paid about £3. They look on first glance identical. The knock-off is cheap s*** and doesn't work very well. But how on earth was it worth it?
Teh only thing they seem to put much care into is the labels. And my Chinese friends tell me that those are often stolen. Or at least purloined from an otherwise legitimate factory.
My long winded point being that these days I assume that anything from China is a knock-off. I just don't always care.
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