Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: JAB Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss Subject: zero customers bought the USA model. Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 11:57:55 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: Reply-To: JAB MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 18:57:59 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="68ffb357228f0b2fa4768eb3986860f9"; logging-data="587504"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ZWG+m/uA7R6YqQfU3M7RF" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:2n+MNYZKew1C6kK2TmNOQ16lsO0= A business owner tested if customers would pay more for American-made. The results were 'sobering.' Afina founder Ramon van Meer wanted to see if people would buy a Made-in-USA version of his specialty shower head. He found it would cost three times as much to produce -- and raised the sale price by 85%. After several days of testing, a total of zero customers bought the USA model. ... ... Armed with real numbers, he set out to do a test with two identical products, with the only difference being their origin and, critically, their price: visitors to Afina's website were presented with the option of a Chinese-made item for $129 or a US-made version for $239. .... .... After several days and more than 25,000 visitors, he said he sold 584 of the lower-priced shower heads and not one single purchase of a US-made version. https://www.businessinsider.com/afina-shower-head-founder-tests-paying-more-american-made-2025-5 Think about that MAGA idiots....