How come I can buy a box of 100 fuses in a nice plastic divided box, and get them shipped all the way from China for £2.50 when just two of the same fuses on a piece of card cost £1.89 in halfords???
Yet if we try to post something to China it'll be more than £2.50 postage!!!
China doesn't send your item out as an individual item.They are packaged with hundreds of other items in a large cardboard box and that box is sent to a collecting house with hundreds of other similar sized boxes. Boxes are opened and individual items that have been prepaid in china are then posted to you.China huh!
The worldwide shipping statistics are not surprising that china and us are top 2 for export GB not even in top 20 but for imports GB no7 in worldIn EU Germany unsurprisingly top in both imp and exp but GB 2nd in imports but only 7th in exports
They're on a win win as well, 'cos if it's faulty, or just shite, there's no way you're gonna splash out to return stuff, you'd just bin it.
Quote from: darrsi on 31 January 2017, 01:28:47 pmThey're on a win win as well, 'cos if it's faulty, or just shite, there's no way you're gonna splash out to return stuff, you'd just bin it.Totally agree, I bought from China what was supposed to be X Mini Speakers. I have had the X Mini's before they are brilliant little speaker and you can daisy chain several together and get a really full sound out of them. Trouble is my daughter keeps nicking them, so I bought these two from China, they were delivered after about two weeks they really look the biz plug then into my iPod and now I see why they were only half the price of the one I bought before. They are a complete fake, they were never made by X Mini, they are really tiny sound and the cones buzz like a demented wasp. As darrsi says it would cost me a small fortune to send the buggers back with insurance on them, and a lot of returned stuff never gets there, Missing in transit do you have insurance Sir. In the bin with them.
Yeah but who's the silly ones in that situation? The ones that pay £500+ for a branded product just because said company says that's what it's worth, or the one buying the same product Sans branding (aka fake) for a fraction of the cost because that's what it actually costs to produce.If all these companies didn't take the piss with their prices then people wouldn't buy fake copies. I know you get what you pay for with certain things but most of the time you pay a serious extra chunk just for branding
Quote from: Dudeofrude on 01 February 2017, 06:12:45 pmYeah but who's the silly ones in that situation? The ones that pay £500+ for a branded product just because said company says that's what it's worth, or the one buying the same product Sans branding (aka fake) for a fraction of the cost because that's what it actually costs to produce.If all these companies didn't take the piss with their prices then people wouldn't buy fake copies. I know you get what you pay for with certain things but most of the time you pay a serious extra chunk just for branding Its the muppets who think they are getting a cheap iPhone when they are actually getting an Android phone and wondering why the thing doesn't like iTunes etc
Haha yeah but then they realise they were lucky as they have ended up with a decent phone instead of another shitty apple product
Yeah and that's a fair enough point with companies like halfords but apple made 7.8 BILLION in 3 months!! They could sell their phones at 1/2 the price and stI'll make 3.7 billion. Fucking disgusting