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Wikipedia has a good summary for anyone unfamiliar; it's a $120 phone whitelabeled and sold for $500.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umidigi_A9

Love the irony that the "American Conservative" Freedom phone is just a generic phone from a Chinese tech company...

Reminds me of the cooler company Blue Coolers, whose entire business model is that they source from China to compete on price against USA made Yeti coolers. The company almost didn't make it, until they had their big break selling thousands of coolers at a trucker rally. The truckers loved the cheap coolers, even though they are only cheap because they are undercutting USA made coolers with Chinese ones. False consciousness in action! Source for this story via clips of a the reality show "I Quit" in this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZqt2bPZT1w

This is interesting and thanks for sharing.

I don’t think it’s accurate to describe Yeti coolers as USA made though: https://www.allamericanmade.com/where-are-yeti-coolers-made/

For USA made, I found Cordova, which I recommend especially because they use a denser foam, so you get more storage capacity for the same exterior dimensions: https://shop.cordovaoutdoors.com/48-qt-adventurer/

Oh thanks! Yeah all I know about this situation is what was in that youtube video, but this is good to know.

There is so much money to be made selling stupid people things that align with their biases.

Leverging Stupidity ... welcome to my Ted Talk.

Hmmm, do you know what ... time to jump on that bandwagon!

Doing what, don't be a tease.

You will have to pay for a ticket to go to the conference. /$

Yeah, it's so funny to see that people who believe a domestic manufacturing base is important have been so utterly defeated that there's not a single US-made phone they can buy. Well, except the niche Librem 5, but the leaders of the "conservative" movement are mostly swindlers, so they picked a cheap phone they can mark up more.

They lost what they valued, their leaders are selling them out, everybody laugh.

There's nothing more American than exercising your freedom to be an uninformed consumer and get swindled

"No one ever went bankrupt under-estimating the intelligence of the American public"

Isnt the entire amazon marketplace doing the same? Marking up cheap white label alibaba products by a couple 100%s and selling it to americans?. And then bragging about making millions with "dropshipping"

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