Professor Shark posted:

Are there any documentaries on Chinese business practices that I could watch? Also, that BBC Chinese episode is down, anyone have a link to it?

Blistex posted:

People were filling cargo containers with milk powder from Australia and New Zealand and making a fortune when the milk scare was at its height. A big container that would go for $20 USD would sell easily for 2-3x that. Chinese parents are still willing to pay a good premium to make sure baby formula doesn't kill their kids, even though some of the culprits were executed and testing happens on a daily basis.

Edit: The problem is that Chinese suppliers are willing to risk a lot to make another 1% profit. Guy I knew who had a laminate flooring factory in a Chinese prison was talking about a guy who had a supplier in China he contracted to make oil pipe parts. They sign the contract, the guy produces a batch, and they all pass inspection. A month later the next shipment isn't to spec and are useless. The metal is wrong, the fasteners are the wrong size, and the holes for bolts are in the wrong place. He drives to the factory to talk to the boss and it's closed. They're not making poo poo. The boss is in his office and with the exception of himself and his secretary, the factory is abandoned. Seems he subcontracted the work out to someone cheaper. They hop in the car, go to the subcontractor's factory, and same thing! He subcontracted it out to some other place.

The same thing happened with those Fischer Price toys with the toxic paint. The initial factory started cheaping out and subcontracting the paint. They got screwed over when their subcontractor subbed it out again, and the supplier they got gave them lead paint.

Professor Shark posted:

Are there any documentaries on Chinese business practices that I could watch? Also, that BBC Chinese episode is down, anyone have a link to it?

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Stick Insect posted:

There are now limits in place on the amount sold. But this is per transaction, so they can just queue up again and repeat the process while someone else guards the earlier purchases outside of the shop. Repeat until all the shops in town are completely out of stock. Some shops no longer put them on the shelves and require customers to ask for them. Other shops got caught selling extra powder at the back door for inflated prices.

Kavak posted:

Sticking to your native foods in a foreign country is the kind of poo poo a kid does, like when I visited Germany a decade ago. I'm still kicking myself for not eating at the Hofbräuhaus every night.

Trochanter posted:

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ozza posted:

Darkman Fanpage posted:

those are ladyboys

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"They think it's OK because the breasts are not real," says Wu wearily.

waitwhatno posted:

how much does imported milk powder cost in China? is it really more expensive than fedexin' it over from all across the world?

waitwhatno posted:

how much does imported milk powder cost in China? is it really more expensive than fedexin' it over from all across the world?

Zzulu posted:

What's all this about milk powder?? WHat have i missed

waitwhatno posted:

I just can't believe that no one in western companies has figured out a way to make money from this. There must be a reliable way to check if a product is untempered at home, right? Maybe involving buttcoin encryption and shady electric wiring?

JaucheCharly posted:

Would you do that, if you know that the guy that you bought the powder from subcontracted the stuff out ad absurdum, so that you can be sure there's rat poison, lime or a lethal dose of heavy metals in there? You could as well book your own funeral instead.

Medieval Medic posted:

lol all three have mao's face

steinrokkan posted:

Your funeral has been subcontracted to a latrine digger outside Lhasa.

waitwhatno posted:

I just can't believe that no one in western companies has figured out a way to make money from this. There must be a reliable way to check if a product is untempered at home, right? Maybe involving buttcoin encryption and shady electric wiring?

JaucheCharly posted:

Thx. I've always wanted to have my casket launched into an open sewage canal. Or is it cremation in a trash bin?


You can check out the lenghts that chinese go to produce counterfeit drugs. The pharma industry would surely buy you a new adidas tracksuit and some sneakers if you come up with way to make counterfeiting and tempering impossible.

waitwhatno posted:

I'm gonna be the idea man, if you do the ppt presentations

tokenized product codes; slap one outside on the box to scan with your smartphone, slap one inside the box. the one inside the box can only be checked once and is invalidated after that. it also tells you what randomised hidden dye they added to this box, if you want to go the extra mile and buy their patented chemical dye reagent set. website for all of this is hosted in the us.

I think this is doable with costs <1000$ per box of powder. any investors?

The Twinkie Czar posted:

China has modernized in the worst way if smuggling formula from across the world makes more sense to them than breast feeding.