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As it has been explained to me, many products made in China are more expensive inside China because of the Value Added Taxes. A good example was my HP laptop that I bought in Canada. When I priced the same model in China, it was more expensive.

I prefer to do my tech shopping in the west.

Speaking of shopping in China, my ISP gave me a surprise. We use WiFi here and have three PCs online at any time. The ISP blocked our access because they detected we were using more than one PC on the line. They also said we couldn't use a router. They run a script that checks packets to see if more than one IP address is on the connection. They also detect routers, presumably by checking the Time To Live in the packet. So we had to change our account to permit two machines. Now we run with fixed IP addresses, two of them, and have to be careful not to have certain computers on when others are being used. I wanted to set up one PC as a router and somehow fiddle with the TTL so we could have as many PCs running at the same time as we wished. But I got distracted by going to Thailand.