How are these chinese ebayers able to sell stuff so cheap?

For example I bought a charging USB cable for my iphone 4S for 5 dollars and only one dollar shipping from CHINA! I get that labor in china is cheap but not that cheap…

The markup on those things is unreal. You are probably buying direct from the manufacturer.

The convenience store near my office sells USB cables for around that same price.

First off the stuff they sell is not nearly as good. Even their chords are known to start fires, but people buy anyways thinking its the same and just cheaper. Its cheap shipping because it comes over in massive quantities and its something that weighs almost nothing.

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