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[Varche]

Alibaba.com Launches on the US stock market today.

If they get their act together they will knock spots off Amazon.

Mrs V received a watch she bought from China today. Pretty enough. £1.29 including postage. I bought a spare wheel cover for the truck for £2.14 inc postage. How can Europe compete with that? In fact anyone know how the postage works? Often shown as "free" ? Chinese government pays it? The items come here via Swiss Post. Flown into Switzerland and then overland post from there? 

[omega3000]

Just looked on the site for wishbones , minimum order 100 "  That should keep me going for 2 yrs 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Alibaba.com Launches on the US stock market today.

If they get their act together they will knock spots off Amazon.

Mrs V received a watch she bought from China today. Pretty enough. £1.29 including postage. I bought a spare wheel cover for the truck for £2.14 inc postage. How can Europe compete with that? In fact anyone know how the postage works? Often shown as "free" ? Chinese government pays it? The items come here via Swiss Post. Flown into Switzerland and then overland post from there?

Sorry, but that is just too cheap and no doubt is being produced as genuine articles but really counterfeit out of dreadful factories where the workers are treated like animals without any union protection.

Why is it we in the west now expect to pay as little as possible but expect our own standard of living to be as high as possible. How hypocrite we are!

[biggriffin]

Alibaba.com Launches on the US stock market today.

If they get their act together they will knock spots off Amazon.

Mrs V received a watch she bought from China today. Pretty enough. £1.29 including postage. I bought a spare wheel cover for the truck for £2.14 inc postage. How can Europe compete with that? In fact anyone know how the postage works? Often shown as "free" ? Chinese government pays it? The items come here via Swiss Post. Flown into Switzerland and then overland post from there?

Sorry, but that is just too cheap and no doubt is being produced as genuine articles but really counterfeit out of dreadful factories where the workers are treated like animals without any union protection.

I would rather pay £1.29 than £129. and there working conditions don't affect my sleep at night, so please carry on with cheap goods for the western world.

[Varche]

Well no one else bid on the watch. So nothing wrong with snapping up a bargain. Traders in Europe buy the same thing by the shedload and then sell them "item in UK" as though it was made in UK for more money. Being realistic £100 watch probably only cost £5 to make anyway.

I tried for ages to get an identical spare wheel cover from a garage trading in Malaga. 35 euros(about£30). Every time I went his lock up was shut.

Chinese pound shops have taken over Spain and pushed the older 100 peseta type shops out of business.

[tidla]

There are plenty of companies in the uk that by cheap Chinese tat and sell it to the unsuspecting for a premium.

Sealey sell an oscilloscope for :

http://www.sealey.co.uk/PLPageBuilder.asp?gotonode=ViewProduct&method=mViewProduct&productid=15453

Bought the same item direct from china for £250.

Machine mart is another example. I no longer buy there branded stuff as some of it is just poor.