Made "Chubby Birdlet"
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Made "Chubby Birdlet"
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https://youtu.be/62_okXMtJ1g
I see the video is marked "Includes paid promotion". It's perfectly OK to post here, and I like that individual video content creators are increasingly getting fairly compensated for their hard work. How does the process work? Does Banggood.com contact you? Can you reveal more details? Is the money any good? Is it a worthwhile strategy for other popular video creators to pursue?
I have tried couple to answer... but when i have tried to publish my "novel"..
"..token has expired"
and all what i have wrote disappears. I'll try again later. :)
Actually.. They didn't pay me. I use that sometimes to avoid comments from "..cheap advertising.. " and that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
Some manufacturers have contacted me with email. I think its good to have your email easily to find.
With Banggood they asked if i want to try some of their tools, i choosed some and they sent them. Simple as that.
I just promised to check them out, and use them with the way i want.
I haven't taked money so far... but i know its possible to get real payments too. I just hink thats too tricky, taxes and that.
Interesting. Seems like banggood is becoming more prominent lately. I'd like to see the bitcoin tip model mature a bit.
One thing annoys me with the Banggood.. They don't allways mention the brand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
So, its impossible to review tool if manufacturer varies.
I got an rotary tool wich was sold with the brand "Drillpro". One that i got, was labeled to be "Buli"
It looks same like the one in the picture, but if you want to buy another one, how to be sure that you get similar one?
As I understand it, branding works differently in China than in the West. Their intellectual property protection laws are notoriously weak. Therefore, it isn't profitable for companies to work on developing a brand for decades, when someone else can just easily copy it. More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intell...perty_in_China
I didn't think about that. That explains it, but laws like that are like shooting yourself to leg. Why to improve anything if anyone can just take your ideas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
Btw. Handle from that Chinese rotary tool fitted perfectly to Dremel Fortiflex. Lol.
Jon and Tuomas,
During the last two years I have bought from Banggood some of their hand tools and a variable low temperature soldering iron (digital display allows dialing in the tip temperature). This is not an endorsement for them but so far everything I have ordered from Banggood has good quality and the prices are very low.
I am temped to buy some of their very inexpensive carbide inserts for taking the initial clean-up cuts on plasma cut steel parts and save my Kennametal and ISCAR inserts for cutting after the slag has been removed. I buy most of my Kennametal and ISCAR inserts with "Buy it Now" from eBay but the Banggood inserts are still 1/3 to 1/4 the price.
Paul Jones
It really makes you wonder what the market will look like in 5 years. Are brick-and-mortar Harbor Freight stores next on the chopping block?
Jon,
I hope the brick-and-mortar Harbor Freight stores will remain a viable enterprise. I get a lot of enjoyment and ideas just walking around these stores. I am sure my buying habits are not helping them but it is more for my time management. The one commodity we don't have a lot of is our time. I see Macy's is hiring an eBay exec to be their next president in September and one reason was to improve the speed of decision making at Macy's. The eBay exec is hands-on type of guy and in fact he became an eBay top-rated seller in order to experience the selling first-hand and then improve the experience for other sellers on the site.
Paul
Thanks for that Paul, I didn't know that. That's a rare CEO that actually gets down in there and experiences his company from the "workers" POV.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Jones
One of the THE best upgrades I did was upgrade to a Foredom. The flexibility and power(I got the most powerful one I could find off eBay used) is light years from the old Dremel we've had forever.
To what Tuomas said, it is hard to understand the lack of brand loyalty/support. That's what makes buying Harbor Freight tools in store hard. You see in a lot of instances two and sometimes three of the same power tool laying side by side with varying prices and colors. Not until you go online do you see there are different ratings on them. Some suck, and the other is great. Obviously because there is a different "factory" making the same thing in China. Not until I read that book Poorly Made in China did the whole thing make sense. It is truly the Wild West over there with outfits coming and going because they are chasing their niche I can only guess.
But you have folks copying a tool they don't know or use for a market they don't understand except they see a possibility of profit. If they do it right and the distribution happens they hang around and when something happens like the market is flooded and orders go down, they hop to the next one completely abandoning it. Maybe somebody else will pick it back up, more than likely not.
It's not how I would do it, but this manufacturing by ADD seems the way now. Customer support and the ability to maintain the machine/tool into the future is not in any way a concern. And in this world of diminishing resources and volatile economic trends it seems to be getting worse.
The last couple of times I've been in HFT there has been a trend away from metal working machines. The metal beader went away, 9x20 lathe went away. Several others. Guess they flooded their market. Luckily Grizzly has picked up the ball and still sells their version and supply parts.
I have no idea where it will go but if they keep messing w/China I can only see drastic change. Good or bad it will be a mixed lot for sure.
