with all this tariff stuff, i keep seeing libs coping that we dont need chinese manufacturing anyway (lmfao) because “they can only make cheap garbage”
these people are so fucking stupid.
US companies are ORDERING cheaply made garbage to sell you at massive profits for themselves. that doesnt mean china is incapable of making good reliable shit. your companies dictate the quality of what they’re having manufactured there. they use the cheapest materials, the lowest level of quality assurances and checks, and this is all to save them money at the expense of the product’s reliability and at YOUR expense. you’re a piggy being fed the slop you paid for. welcome to america.
This is it. Websites like Taobao and 1688 are the Alibaba and Aliexpress for China internally and there is amazing shit on there. I’ve got a chrome extension that can scan photos to see if they’re sold on those sites and I can often find the same clothes at a 10x markup
What extension
Commenting for you as well because Lemmy doesn’t give notifications for other thread replies https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/1688-aibuy-official-globa/ecpkhbhhpfjkkcedaejmpaabpdgcaegc?hl=en-GB
Aliexpress has great stuff on it.
It’s like anywhere, it has great stuff but is also full of crap. With a bit of research you can find the good things on there
What extension
I use 1688 AIBuy https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/1688-aibuy-official-globa/ecpkhbhhpfjkkcedaejmpaabpdgcaegc?hl=en-GB
If you download the taobao android app it has the camera thing built in