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Posted by Kimba W. Lion on 11/03/06 03:52
"traffik33" <traffik33@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I just bought a Manavox DVD player for $29.98 at Wal-Mart.
>How can they manufacturer parts, assemble, ship/distribute,
>and sell these players for $29.98 and make a profit?
Because they're made in China, where the workers get about a penny a month.
The whole player probably costs about 6 cents to make, and Wal-Mart gets
them for about a buck each.
OK, so I made up those numbers. But you get the point. If we still had
pre-Nixon trade embargoes on China, we'd be paying $425 for a low-end
player. And we'd be taking them to repairmen instead of considering them
disposable. Imagine that.
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