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Does any Chinese crap from Alibaba or equivalent sell in the
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Does any Chinese crap from Alibaba or equivalent sell in the West at all? Or is it just a meme?
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>>1101697
do you ever buy anything you faggot
its all made in the far east
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Yeah just build a marketing team and decent logo.
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>>1101697
Girlfriends dad used it. Or one like it I am not sure.

Purchase #1
>Dude has a hard on for 3-D
>Seriously loves it
>Saw a 3-D projector going for like a thousand dollars
>add claims its a multi thousand dollar theater grade projector
>dude buys it
>Gets a plastic square the size of a small toaster with 2 projector bits
>Manual is written via google translate
>Can get 2-d working
>3-D is supposed to work by pluging it into a pc and having dual screen rigged to play movie in both screens
>Can never make it work

Purchase #2
>same site
>supposedly awesome Laptops for like $400
>I verify that laptops sound great and would be worth 1200-1900 legit.
>PayPal purchase, because supposedly can be undone if you bitch at paypal (My advice for what little its worth, he wanted to use western union to wire cash)
> last minute dude switches to cheaper one (200 ish)and they only use western union
>lost $200


Conclusion:

Sometimes you may be able to get stuff that may be OK or crappy. Prepare to be screwed and try to take what countermeasures you may. And for gods sake don't let the allure of 700% profit blind you.
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>>1101733
This. It's not as easy as before though. A friend of mine used to make a fortune on eBay but the prices wars drove his profit margins into the ground. He still makes side money doing it buy not nearly as much.
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I've seen many Alibaba products on Amazon and they sell pretty well
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