I love how all these news articles about scams and security problems are always all "if something is too cheap to be true, that usually means there's something sketchy going on"
As if a normal person could possibly have any kind of reasonable idea of what stuff is 'supposed' to cost in this exploitative capitalist hellscape where every company lies all the time including the supposedly legitimate ones
Like, I am a tech nerd *and* a supply chain nerd and I still couldn't tell you what the actual manufacturing cost of a lot of tech stuff is, I don't know how anyone else is expected to figure this out
@joepie91 it's funny, since i think most people who are more than like, 20 years old or so probably remember the price of something that has dropped drastically due mostly to the cutting out of a middleman or other similar reasons.
like, glasses, hearing aids, cell phone service (in the USA, especially long-distance and internet), probably lots of other stuff all used to be super expensive and now there are a lot of not very expensive options at basically the same quality.
@joepie91 💠 you're not, you're just supposed to be culpable when someone finally gets one over on you
@joepie91 You are probably aware, but there are also a lot of variables which influence manufacturing cost, like unit count, material choice, supplier choice etc.
Most of these are not easy to figure out.