Spittoons for $61! Mosquito nets for $409! These Chinese “local” products are popular overseas

Do you still remember LV's snakeskin bags, Chanel's hand warmers, and Puma 's crystal shoes?

Now something even more destructive has appeared...

Recently, a product sold on Amazon in the United States caused domestic netizens to burst into laughter. It was a traditional Chinese spittoon , and it was priced at more than 60 US dollars .

What is shocking is that there are foreigners who use it as a wine vessel...

Take a look at its product introduction, it's amazing : 1860s Chinese traditional fruit basket, Chinese antique, kitchen table decoration , enamel bowl, fruit / vegetable / produce basket ... This " antique art fruit basket " represents China's traditional culture and is a symbol of a happy life. It is not only suitable for your own home, but also suitable as a gift for friends and relatives to move to a new house or wedding.

Foreigners like to use the Double Happiness spittoon, which was a best-seller in China in the 1980s. Whether it is for drinking beer or using it as a fruit plate, they believe that the big red "Happiness" character on it has auspicious meanings.

Foreigners use Chinese spittoons to drink beer

Cheers with a spittoon

Use a spittoon to hold fruit

Netizens burst into laughter at the unexpected popularity of the Chinese urinal transformed into a fruit basket abroad ...

One seller said, "It is offensive and reprehensible to sell a potty as a food container. It should be removed from Amazon."

Actually, don't look down on spittoons. According to historical records, spittoons first appeared in the Zhou Dynasty, with a history of about 3,000 years. The earliest spittoons were bronze, and later there were spittoons made of various materials, such as stone, bone, iron, glass, pottery, porcelain, enamel, jade, stainless steel, etc.

For sellers, this provides a direction for product selection , using the differences between Chinese and foreign cultures to select products . Things that are looked down upon by Chinese people may not be the same in the eyes of foreigners. They may think that these are relatively novel things.

Another thing is how to package it . Only by telling a good story can you " attract " foreigners . The listing of the spittoon is well written. No wonder it attracts so many foreigners. Xiaozhi checked on 1688 and found that the wholesale price of the same product is about 10 yuan . If the quantity is large, the price will be more favorable. The price of this spittoon on Amazon is 61.96 US dollars (equivalent to about 400 yuan), which is more than 40 times the premium !

In recent years, while Chinese people are going on a shopping spree around the world, some Chinese products have also crossed the ocean and entered the daily lives of foreigners. Here is a list of Chinese products that are looked down upon by Chinese people but snapped up by foreigners.

Before the 2016 Olympics, the Zika virus was spreading in Brazil, which caused the mosquitoes here to be extremely harmful. The clever Chinese team members used a "magic weapon" - mosquito nets. They didn't need to be fumigated by mosquito coils or worry about any insects suddenly falling. The team members all slept soundly. The mosquito nets were much more convenient than other mosquito repellents.

Maybe we Chinese people think this is nothing, but the foreign media were shocked when they saw these mosquito nets.

Because they had never seen it before.

Foreign journalists were stunned: there is such a magical thing in the world. The Spanish media "AS" used the "national magic weapon" to describe the mosquito nets of the Chinese gymnastics team. Australian women's basketball star Elizabeth Cambage also shared photos of the mosquito nets on Twitter.

After that, there was a rush to buy mosquito nets abroad, causing the price of mosquito nets on Amazon to be as high as $409.23 !!!

When it comes to Warrior shoes, you may be more familiar with the names such as " stinky sneakers " and " rubber shoes " . In the 1970s and 1980s, those white sneakers with red and blue patterns and yellow cowhide soles were seen everywhere on the streets.

However, no one would have thought that this cheap street stall product, which has faded from people's sight for many years, has become a " hot item " that European and American fashionistas are scrambling to buy in recent years. The " ugly duckling " of smelly sneakers that once sold for 20 to 30 yuan has transformed into a "white swan" that enjoys the treatment of an international big brand and is worth 50 euros .

" See you tomorrow, Dabao, see you every day " , this slogan is familiar to many Chinese people. Although Dabao SOD honey, which costs only 20 yuan , is a must-have for many Chinese people, it is rarely " reused " .

However, in Japan, a bottle of Dabao costs more than 2,000 yen ( about 120 yuan) , but some foreigners who come to China will bring a bunch of cheap " Dabao " back home.

Speaking of Chinese products that are praised by foreigners, the spicy sauce "Laoganma" cannot be missed. On the social networking site Facebook , there is a "Laoganma" fan homepage founded by Simon Stahil . The most common question among "Laoganma" fans around the world is: where can I buy "Laoganma"? The social networking site Twitter also has a large number of loyal fans of "Laoganma", and some shocking "standard" ways of eating it are constantly being released.

Many Chinese supermarkets abroad sell Lao Gan Ma, which costs 2-3 US dollars per bottle in the United States and 2-3 euros in Europe. Locals generally believe that it is cheap and good quality. However, if you buy Lao Gan Ma online on Amazon, the price ranges from 10 to 20 US dollars , so it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a luxury product.

In 2019 , a video of a black girl explaining the ghost money from Tiandi Bank went viral abroad.

He also shared it on Twitter. Once this tweet was released, Chinese ghost money instantly exploded abroad, was sought after by countless foreigners, and dominated the global underworld overnight.

These lovely foreigners even gave the ghost money a name - " ancestor money". How popular is this ancestor money? Let's take a look at the data of the cross-border e-commerce platform at that time:

Some people even started online knowledge payment by using ghost money, just to teach you how to burn paper money online...

There are many products like this, which are not listed here one by one. Interested sellers can explore the business opportunities here. After all, the premium is very high, and it is a good way to make money.

(Source: Cross-border Live)