Ebay Digital Voltmeter- How Do They Do that

mena661 wrote:

myredracer wrote:
If you want a good, reliable, accurate and quality digital LED panel-mounted style voltmeter and that is made in the US of A,

Not the OP's question at all.

My point is that if you can get one from China for $2.67 including shipping, and a US made equivalent is approaching 20 times the price of the Chinese one, what kind of quality is it and do you really want one? I don't care how they can ship for such a low price, at any shipping cost, I don't think I'd want one.

Shipping on these mini panel display meters within the US is under $2 on ebay so the shipping cost out of China isn't drastically less. These panel displays are as low as $1.28 on ebay with free shipping out of China! After ebay and Paypal fees, other expenses and the item cost, what does that leave for shipping and the seller? Even if the original item cost is zero, how do they do it at $1.28?

Interestingly, when I originally searched for one of these things and wanted a domestic made one, everything that kept coming up on google was Chinese and it took some effort to find a US made one. If you look on ebay, you'll find they're pretty much all shipped from China except for a small handful.

Read "Bubble Packed". Cargo aircraft from China can haul a thousand epackets in the same space needed by one human. If you've ever seen a fully loaded container ship you would gasp. Holds packed to the inch and truck trailer containers stacked ten high on the decks. Container ship unloading is an art-form. A continuous line of TWO HUNDRED trucks. One after another. Its almost unbelievable.


VERY VERY VERY few articles are tested after manufacture. They spot test perhaps two per 400 finished articles. The large merchandise store I am helping out in, purchases customer rejects for two cents on the dollar and I lend my talent to see if the device is usable or repairable. Like the carton of clothes irons where OEM "forgot" to solder all the electronics to the PC board. The boards were epoxied. The items were shipped.

RJsfishin wrote:
The meter, was it $2.57 retail. including shipping,....how do they do that ?

You haven't seen how they work on assembly lines. Like robots. For $2 an hour, or less. No QC, no environment protection overhead. Shipping is probably half of that price.

Just funnin' Dutch!

Actually I used your link and re-read that thread - Thank You

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
"This topic was pretty well covered recently in this thread on ATC:"

Is this a Hall Monitor whistle I hear?

Not at all. Just adding a link to additional information that may be useful to some. :R

I bought a nice about $5 or $10 online digi volt meter, tested it for a few minutes a half dozen times, spent an hour in my camper carefully sawing a hole in the "kitchen instrument panel" for it, did a sweet install, and it failed 5 minutes after hooking it up. It's a good conversation piece: "What's that dark black square lookin' thing?" "It's the EGT output for the turbo encabulator. It's shut down right now.."

I'm going to check out the Datel option.

I just bought 3 of them. Thanks for the link. They likely sell so cheap cause it is a scam for harvesting our financial info.

And I just gnu someone was looking for an out of the ordinary voltage meter!


http://www.buyincoins.com/item/41033.html


My dad's bigger N your dad!

Mr Wizard has it, quantity quantity quantity. the only possible answer.
How many of us would be satisfied w/ pennies on a sale, even w/ the quantity.
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Yes that's correct
However the OP question was about single item purchased, and shipped individually from China
Meaning the China seller is making pennies ? Per item ?
And many many sales, certainly a busy industrious person, Not an easy way to make a living

It is basically a one part device... A few of them have been described on the internet and found to work fairly well.

A few episodes ago Ham Nation (twit.tv/hn) covered these types of devices. Alas, I'm not sure how many episodes ago.