Chinese Packaging “Sheer Genius”
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Feb 12, 2013 18:29 JST
- Tags: China, Comparison, Food, Fraud, Image Gallery, Made in China, Marketing
The very Chinese ingenuity with which a souvenir foodstuff has been packaged is the latest made in China product to be securing praise for its “innovative” marketing, both in China and beyond.
More examples were soon exhumed:
Online there is some awe at the dastardly cunning seemingly exhibited by even the most humble PRC product – although even in Japan everything from games nested in gigantic boxes to bento with cunningly raised bottoms exploit similar tactics to a lesser extent, as the more fair-minded are quick to point out:
“It’s almost as if it were packaged by Amazon!”
“What a waste of genius!”
“Does it explode as well?”
“These guys only think of ways of cheating people, don’t they?”
“For a made in China product, this is actually quite an innocent example.”
“At least it isn’t poisonous.”
“At least the contents will not get damaged.”
“At least the balls aren’t hollow.”
“You’d think this would be a bit insulting to the person who was given it as a souvenir.”
“The seller, buyer, or recipient – who actually doesn’t lose face here?”
“If you can still eat it, it is OK by Chinese standards.”
“Come on, they do the same stuff in Japan. Those bento with raised bottoms you find everywhere, where about half the package is empty space.”
“In Japan, all eroge are packaged that way:”
“Taiwan is not to be beaten!:”
“Japan can still top that!:
“What about this – a $15,000 high-end Goldmund DVD player which contains a standard Pioneer DVD player:”
“Made in China drives:”
“More Chinese packaging:”
“The Chinese seem to have no conception of the notion of gaining the trust of customers or actually pleasing them, do they?”
“I can’t help but think they are more interested in cheating people than they are in profits.”
“It seems they really do think this sort of thing is clever, and not just in an ironic way. The person being cheated is to blame for being stupid, and if you’re caught you can just cut and run and do the same thing with a new company.”
“The whole Chinese economy is like this. The numbers they put out bear as much relation to actuality as this box does to its contents.”
“It really is a very Chinese souvenir, isn’t it?”
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Pretty much is what the videogame industry is doing as of late.
Lot's of hype, false advertising, untold removal of features, denial of DEMO or even trailers.
60 dollars later, you get an incomplete, downgraded, buggy, piece of shit backwards game with less content than previeous/older titles.
That you have to register online and you can only install it 5 times.
not to mention the DL and install of said online registration that makes your computer work harder. *cough*steam*cough*origin*
In some cases, yes. However, a good number of games today are made well and well worth the money. I just wish that they would update the backlog of PS1 and PS2 games so that they can be played on modern non-Sony systems by allowing a sanctioned emulator.
honestly, sony would never sanction an emulator, plus it could kill the value of vintage games, which im not saying is a bad thing.
the only way they would sanction one is if they could put DRM on it and force users to DL from PSN, and then they take 100% of all game sales.
lets not forget that the removed features are available as on-disc-DLC, making you pay for stuff you should have gotten already in the first place
In the end they are hurting themselves because they cannot build up a brand.
they don't need one, they change company brand/products once the previous prduct r sold out
China in itself is a Brand. See all the stuffs in Wall mart or other stores all have "made in China" Brand. So, yeah ftw China
I can't believe anyone would be stupid enough to genuinely make this comment.
yes, anon 21:42 your post sucked
Why build up a brand at all when you can just sell fried chicken as KTC or KVC.
Obama Fried Chicken FTW
haha I remember that one!
This has nothing to do with business regulation though, retard.
China doesn't build brands, they just use everyone else's.
Yeah, unfortunately for consumers, shyster businesses that do this put out a bunch of crap, sell it wholesale, change the name of their company, put out more crap, sell it wholesale, change the name of their company, put out more crap, etc...
wouldn't it just be easier to sell under the name of a company with a good reputation?
Yah I'd never buy any of those brands again.
You weren't going to notice which brands you buy to begin with.
They learned from the best. Capitalism at work.
This is a problem of free markets, not capitalism.
Despite what your American Dream(TM) propaganda might tell you, the two concepts are not tied together.
well, they try to teach you that in school, but apparently no one here has a GED.
Capitalism, Ho!
Think its just the Chinese consumer hasn't had time to get picky yet :)
Agreed. If I was living in China, I would demand to open the package before buying/paying to make sure I was getting what I should be getting.
If it turned out to be a scam item, I would immediately call the police.
And the police hauls your ass to jail for destruction of property?
In that case the store clerks can refuse to service you and demand you leave the property.
It's not their fault you refuse to read the packaging.
besides changing company brand/products they sometimes also manage to put the blame on the importers or other people. If you want to find out more about this topic I recommended you read this book http://www.amazon.com/Poorly-Made-China-Insiders-Production/dp/0470928077/ and you find out that this kind of thing is very common.
Funny slanty eyes and their antics being ass pained all the time because everyone else turned their women into cum dumpster for the world.
lel look at all these butthurt downvoters
they downvote so they dont have to read lame remarks made by ignorant jackasses. i actually want the 30 seconds of my life back for typing this out.
Don't you understand? Along with your food product you're getting premium packaged air! A current luxury in smog-filled eastern China!
It's a service! Service!
Not to mention all the paint chips and heavy metals you're not eating, assuming you had a full box of said food product..
And of course, less food product in package means smaller blast zone when this product inevitably explodes..
Brilliant. You made my day.
I build my own gaming rigs for myself and for clients
and THIS is exactly why I bend over backwards to use
only Japanese and Taiwanese drives and PSU's and any
other component you can think of. I don't want customers coming back and complaining I sold them crap when it fails.
BTW most of those low end brand name desk tops you buy
come with Chinese (PRC) PSU's in them and they are
utter garbage.
You do realize the parts are all made in China, right? "Made in ___" refers to site of assembly, and sometimes not even that, just site of packaging.
There is a reputable PSU manufacture of
a certain brand name which starts with a C
(don't want to get flagged for spam) who
makes it a point of advertising the capacitors
oil and otherwise and diodes etc. used in their PSU's are the highest quality Japanese and Taiwanese and not PRC manufactured ones they can get.
Their products reliability would testify to
that.
I don't know.... the Chinese PSU in my HP computer works pretty darn good, it's been nearly 2 years now and it's still going.
The problem with PSU's is that a good one is expensive compared to the crap one. A good PSU with a good reputation for a gaming class PC is anywhere from 100 to 150 dollars.
Too expensive for most for something that they never see.
Yes but when PSU's go they will most likely
take the MOBO,graphics card and maybe even
the hard drive with it.
That's a lot of bucks on a gaming rig with
each running about $200 to $300. So in my
case I'll pay the $100/150 plus you usually
get more voltage taps for multiple graphics
cards and SSd's etc.
The next time I hear so dumb fuck republican say we need to deregulate business, I'll point them to this page.
Then prepare for the mandatory "our businesses are not like that" speech. You can't argue with politicians. They will bury you under a mountain of fallacies until you give up or die of old age, whichever comes first.
True when I see stuff like this I'm very grateful of the regulations that exist in my country.
I think we need more regulations to stop over use of shady ingredients and dishonest mechanics.
over-regulation drives up costs by running up the taxes that pay the wages of the regulators. This leads to more cheating in an effort to shore up shrinking profits. At some point it becomes cheaper to bribe the regulator. Most Americans are smart enough to realize that corn flakes and potato chips are sold by weight, not volume, and don't pitch a fit when the bag is only half full, and they don't need a regulator to tell them that.
Under-regulation gets us China. I think I'd rather go with over rather than under.
Nice false dichotomy. Arguing against deregulation is not the same thing as arguing for over-regulation. All regulation drives up costs, but without sufficient regulation, you leave room for exploitative business practices.
You think the American public can deal with weak regulations? Then how do you explain the fact that most of their customer markets are de facto monopolies or cartels? How do you explain the low quality food they eat? How do you explain the overflow of illegal immigrants?
If the people are apathetic, then strong regulation is a necessary evil. The economy benefits more from healthy markets than from saving on bureaucratic expenses.
The items in the post are clear examples of fraud. Nobody wants to 'deregulate' that, you libtard moron.
Deregulation turns fraud into "smart marketing package" when companies aren't regulated then fraud is not longer a part of the vocabulary when its no longer considered illegal dumb shit.
I guess the concept of "Truth in Advertising" laws
hasn't reached the PRC yet.
my favorite has to be that sandwich hahaha.
Dat Sandwich...