Fair enough but, even at around £5, still pretty cheap. However, as I implied (to sort of '#make a point') is that you may well have felt more confident about the product had you paid £51.38, per the listing I posted.I've just looked in my history and one of the 3 is coming up as not found, the other 2 are around £5 so either it's sadly been withdrawn or price has amended.
The note I made at the time: ... 3005 12p 169 ... 3005 & L 543 ... case 114 ... lead 24p
That 'point' is that many people still work think on the basis of very cheap' equating to 'rubbish' and 'very expensive' relating to 'excellent quality'
This reminds me of a 50+ year-old story which I may have told here before. When I was in the sixth form at school, we traditionally had 'Saturday Night Dances', in collaboration with our sister girl's school. However, despite several people having tried all sorts of measures and gimmicks, there were 'falling into decline (very poorly attended), to the extent that we were seriously considering stopping them altogether. I somehow found myself 'volunteered' to try to reverse this downward trend and, like others before me, tried all sorts of incentives and gimmicks, but with little effect.
As a 'last resort', I dramatically increased the price of tickets (by a factor of about 5 if I recall !), to a level which was verging on the 'unaffordable' for most school pupils - and attendance of the dances sudden;t increased just as dramatically. It appears that the tickets were so expensive that many people concluded that "they must be very good dances"!
.. which all goes to show that there were, and still are, plenty of naive and gullible people around. Not all 'Chinese tat' is 'tat', and a good few much more expensive products sold by 'reputable Western companies' are essentially the same products as the Chinese -badged ones, but 'enjoying' a vastly greater profit margin