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Not entirely surprising. Dustin (Destin?) from smarter every day tried to get some chainmail from India. Ended up being drop shipped from china

• Tadpole9181 1y ago
  And, to be clear, it was falsely marketed otherwise. They only realized because it was still in the Chinese boxes. That seems like outright fraud to me, but it doesn't seem like they're going to challenge it based on the video?
  • salawat 1y ago
    Lot of it comes down to where the factories are built. Building fabs is hard and expensive. And when the U.S. has assigned Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China, which in the oughts, ballooned investment in facilities over there and streamlined shipping... And not much else it was intended to do, but that suited the businessmen's interests just fine. Why wouldn't the Indians pull a fake it til ya make it? Hell of a lot easier than actually doing the thing and competing... Even though that's kinda the whole point of capitalism. But we abandoned that long ago, and the Silicon Valley types and VC types in particular have sworn off it. Dollars and monopolies first. Competition (and lower prices therethrough)? Nah. A sucker's game they say. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_normal_trade_relations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_normal_trade_relat...
    • Tadpole9181 1y ago
      I guess I'm a sucker and an idiot, because my answer is simply "because it's wrong". Not to mention, illegal, and them not reversing the transaction only allowed the bad actor to profit. I'm not excusing them, just like I'm not excusing a scam call center that steals from the elderly.
      • owebmaster 1y ago
        A scammer's easy answer is to say that everybody is scamming, not only them.
  • Saris 1y ago
    It is fraud, but it would likely be difficult and expensive to legally go after the company in India.