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Re: Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur

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They make $350 sheets. Think about that for a second. $350 for cut and sewn planes of linen.

I was all about it until I saw the price. Elevated for no reason. They sell it a premium price point to just give the illusion of extreme quality. It's made just like any other linen bed sheets you can buy with a few buttons to connect the top sheet to the duvet.

Someone could make a duvet with some buttons and sell it at 1/10th the price.

Re: Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur

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They make $350 sheets. Think about that for a second. $350 for cut and sewn planes of linen. I was all about it until I saw the price. Elevated for no reason. They sell it a premium price point to just give the illusion of extreme quality. It's made just like any other linen bed sheets you can buy with a few buttons to connect the top sheet to the duvet. Someone could make a duvet with some buttons and sell it at 1/1…

OK, why not you? If this is so easy? You remind me of the people that laugh at modern art, in the MOMA, and say, "I could do this myself." Think beyond the first derivative.

Re: Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur

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They make $350 sheets. Think about that for a second. $350 for cut and sewn planes of linen. I was all about it until I saw the price. Elevated for no reason. They sell it a premium price point to just give the illusion of extreme quality. It's made just like any other linen bed sheets you can buy with a few buttons to connect the top sheet to the duvet. Someone could make a duvet with some buttons and sell it at 1/1…

> 1/10th the price.

they always said talk was cheap, but you've handily put an exact figure on it - 90% off!

Re: Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur

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" All we had to do was download an app and click on some mysterious Chinese advertisements to top up our data. "

This is the sort of shit that keeps network security people awake at night. I bet they enabled third-party app downloads on their Android phones and uninstalled some unknown .apk

The future business leaders of America... fuck...

Re: Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur

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They make $350 sheets. Think about that for a second. $350 for cut and sewn planes of linen. I was all about it until I saw the price. Elevated for no reason. They sell it a premium price point to just give the illusion of extreme quality. It's made just like any other linen bed sheets you can buy with a few buttons to connect the top sheet to the duvet. Someone could make a duvet with some buttons and sell it at 1/1…

Actually, if you price us up against other _linen_ bedding you’ll see that we’re incredibly competitive. Something comparable would cost upwards of $600.

Once you factor in the fact that linen lasts up to 10x as long as cotton the price becomes much more stomachable.

Re: Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur

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They make $350 sheets. Think about that for a second. $350 for cut and sewn planes of linen. I was all about it until I saw the price. Elevated for no reason. They sell it a premium price point to just give the illusion of extreme quality. It's made just like any other linen bed sheets you can buy with a few buttons to connect the top sheet to the duvet. Someone could make a duvet with some buttons and sell it at 1/1…

OK, why not you? If this is so easy? You remind me of the people that laugh at modern art, in the MOMA, and say, "I could do this myself." Think beyond the first derivative.

Well for the art example, just because someone could make a piece of art doesn't mean they have any interest in doing so. I could squirt paint randomly on a canvas, but it would be a huge waste of time.

Re: Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur

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post #5

" All we had to do was download an app and click on some mysterious Chinese advertisements to top up our data. " This is the sort of shit that keeps network security people awake at night. I bet they enabled third-party app downloads on their Android phones and uninstalled some unknown .apk The future business leaders of America... fuck...

> The future business leaders of America

"All we had to do was download a program and we got free Internet" seems similar, and the dialer-scam was used widely throughout the US.

Re: Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur

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post #5

" All we had to do was download an app and click on some mysterious Chinese advertisements to top up our data. " This is the sort of shit that keeps network security people awake at night. I bet they enabled third-party app downloads on their Android phones and uninstalled some unknown .apk The future business leaders of America... fuck...

The previous sentence about SIM cards:

"We tried to buy 3, and we were told they were free."

Welcome to not-America. I think the free data reloads are a sign of how cheap mobile bandwidth could be.

Maybe they can bring back that practice.

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