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The setting: Shenzhen / Huaqiangbei
Manufacturing keyboards means that we end up in southern China on a not-infrequent basis. Specifically, we spend a bit of time around Shenzhen, the electronics capital of the world. While there, we’ve always made it a point to spend a day or two wandering through Huaqiangbei, home to Shenzhen’s famous electronics markets.
When we first started visiting Shenzhen almost a decade ago, Huaqiangbei was a gritty inexpensive market area. These days, it’s a lot more upscale. If you haven’t been back in a few years, you might not recognize the place.
Heck, there are public pianos there now. And they’re in use a lot of the time.
If you haven’t heard of it before, Huaqiangbei (often abbreviated HQB by westerners) is a loose collection of a couple of dozen market buildings housing factory showrooms, resellers, and, increasingly, flashy retail shops selling just about anything electronic you can imagine.
Seriously.
There’s a luxury audio market with vacuum tube shops.
There’s a market selling 10+ year old used digital cameras. Through 2023, this market was dead every time we visited. This time it was mobbed and the prices were at easily 10x what they’d been the last time we were there. (Vintage digital cameras are having a global moment.)
There are drone showrooms, selling everything from “cheap toy drones” to “fancy DJI drones” to “things that look like they could fly all the way across New Jersey,” This picture is of that last type. And this showroom was entirely unattended in a weird mostly empty building slightly off the main drag.
There’s a market where you can buy used CompactFlash cards.
There are an uncountable number of iAccessory vendors who’ve made their shops feel like they were specced out in Cupertino, CA.
There are shops that just sell phone lanyards.
And there are shops that just sell phone cases.
Actually, there are at least two shopping-mall sized buildings that almost exclusively house phone case vendors. It’s a huge business.
There are shops that sell a wide variety of products of a given type, like the headphone store above.
And there are shops that sell only a single product, like this headphone store that was virtually next door to the last one.
Walking around the markets, it’s not uncommon to see shopkeepers assembling products in between helping customers. On Sundays, it’s pretty common to see folks assembling hundreds of authentic-looking boxes for products from major brands that you’ve absolutely heard of.
In between all the “regular” stuff in the markets, you sometimes find something unique or weird. Maybe it’s a cable that does something unexpected like light up, coil itself back together with magnets, or narc on its user with a SIM card and GSM radio hidden in the USB connector. Maybe it’s a weird toy built around a roller-skate bearing called a “fidget spinner” that hasn’t made it to the US yet. Maybe it’s a knockoff of a product your favorite company never actually made.
And that’s where the Box of Crap comes in.
So... what's The Box of Crap?
Eight years ago, Jesse was in Shenzhen with an afternoon to kill and posted to Twitter that he’d go on a shopping spree in Shenzhen if folks wanted to pay $50 and get a box of random crap in the mail.
Being in Shenzhen—the heart of Chinese electronics—is a sometimes overwhelming, often deeply weird experience. Thousands of entrepreneurs are all trying to make and sell the next big thing, or at least enough of the next small thing to keep afloat in the mercenary world of small-scale contract manufacturing. Innovation and schlock are side by side, with plenty of copying and cross-pollinating to keep it interesting. Sometimes it’s magic, sometimes it’s ten minutes ahead of the rest of the world, and sometimes it’s just crap. Our goal with this project is to bottle up a little bit of that heady mix and send it to people, all for a reasonable fee.
You can read the writeup of that first Box of Crap experiment on Medium.
That first time, we capped the project at about 15 boxes and were… badly underwater on the whole thing because shipping stuff with batteries turned out to be a lot more expensive than we budgeted. Also, we wanted to give everybody a fake Apple Watch and a drone.
Since then, the project has evolved. We no longer pack the boxes by hand, which means we’ve been able to sell a couple hundred boxes of crap at a go.
For the 2023 edition of the Box of Crap, we purchased everything directly in Huaqiangbei (which may be the biggest electronics market in the world) over the course of one very, very long day. Because we were buying 200 of each item, we got pretty good pricing, but we also quickly ran into banking issues. Both WeChat Pay and Alipay cut us off, since very few of the sellers had corporate bank accounts and the Chinese banking regulations are somewhat strict.
This time around, we still spent a very long day combing through Huaqiangbei looking for the best crap to stuff into boxes, but instead of placing orders on the fly, we bought individual samples and collected WeChat contacts and hundred-megabyte Excel pricelists from dozens of vendors.
Once we were back in the US, we started placing orders. Some stuff, we ordered from the vendors we’d met in Huaqiangbei. Some suppliers in Huaqiangbei had legitimately great pricing, but others… just didn’t.
When we were doing 15, 25, or 50 boxes of crap at a time, vendors in Huaqiangbei were absolutely our best possible suppliers. They’d give us wholesale prices for relatively small orders.
This time around, we were buying for about 325 of you. When you’re buying hundreds of something at a time, actual factories are willing to talk to you. We ended up doing the bulk of the shopping for the Box of Crap by finding factories on Alibaba. By tracking the stuff we saw in Huaqiangbei back to the factories that actually make it, we were able to get more crap into the boxes. At the same time, we’ve unintentionally confused some factory sales reps. We’ve needed to explain that we’re not a phone case store, that we’re not an esports store, and that we’re not a toy store.
The economics of this game
The way we think about the $100 Box of Crap is that we want to spend $50 on stuff from the markets for you, that shipping should cost us about $25, and that, at the end of the day, we should take home $25 per box.
We want you to get at least $100 of amusement out of your box. While we can’t really speak to the value of the stuff in the 2024 Box of Crap, if you were to try to buy it all on Amazon, we figure it’d cost you over $240, assuming you already paid for Prime.
This time around, we spent $15,355.20 on crap. That works out to $47.25 averaged across 325 boxes offered for sale.
We actually bought supplies for 330 boxes, since we want to be able to replace a few if they go missing or get destroyed in shipment. A couple of items, including the squishy toys, we had to buy by the carton, so we’ve got some extra rubber ducks and toilets sitting in a warehouse in China.
Because we did this Box of Crap in Q4, we’re running up against some of the highest shipping rates of the year. Our shipping cost is $16 per kilogram + a $2.75 per package handling fee.
Due to a bad guess about the weight of one item, we ended up with boxes weighing about 2.05Kg. That put us at $35.55 per box for shipping, a full $10 over where we’d wanted to be. Of course, we underspent on the actual stuff by $2.75 per box.
Putting all that together, we should come out of this making $17.2 per box for a total profit of $5590. (Not counting the samples we bought, travel, accommodation, time, credit card processing fees, and a bunch of other things.)
The big trend
The biggest theme we saw in the markets this year was "MagSafe everything."
Seriously. We can not do justice to how much the markets love magnetic rings. MagSafe is, of course, something that is famously an "Apple" thing. Since 2020, iPhones have had a ring of magnets hidden inside them to help align with a wireless charger… or other accessories. Some other phones have a steel ring in about the same place so that MagSafe accessories work with them, but the vast majority of Android phones do not. Heck, many of the things you might want to use with MagSafe accessories aren't even phones. But that hasn't stopped Shenzhen.
What’s in this year’s box
1. Ten "MagSafe everywhere" rings
- Cost: $1.02
- Shipping: $0.35
- Compare similar at*: $9.99 at Amazon
The market has come up with a very straightforward solution to the "problem" that not every object with a two inch flat surface is an iPhone with a MagSafe ring buried under its surface: 56mm steel rings with adhesive on one side. We loved this idea so much that we got you ten of them.
Got a phone case without MagSafe support? Or a phone without it? No problem. Just slap a ring on it. Heck, MagSafe your eReader. Or your wallet. Or a block of wood. As long as it's got a flat side, it's fair game.
Some of the MagSafe-compatible accessories in your Box of Crap also came with an adhesive-backed steel ring or two.
2. MagSafe handgrip
- Cost: $0.96
- Shipping: $0.38
- Compare similar at: $9.99
This one's pretty simple and self-explanatory. It's a collapsible handle for something you just stuck a "MagSafe everywhere" ring on.
There were zillions of phone grips in Huaqiangbei. Some were also fidget spinners. Some had a series of 3 or 4 rings that pivoted out to turn into stands. This one was a pretty basic example of the genre. We picked the transparent one so you can see how the magnets inside are laid out.
3. G200 Bluetooth speaker
- Cost: $5.18
- Shipping: $1.86
- Compare similar at: $15.99
It's a bluetooth speaker. Sure, there are tons of them out there, but, yup, you guessed it: this one is MagSafe! This one's also a phone stand. And the audio has a little bit more bass than what's coming out of our iPhones. And it has some RGB LEDs on it.
With the "MagSafe everywhere" rings, you can stick it anywhere.
4. Magnetic monitor mount
- Cost: $2.93
- Shipping: $1.76
- Compare similar at: $9.99
This is a little swing-out arm designed to let you keep your phone floating next to your laptop screen while you're working. If yours is anything like the one in our box, you'll want to use a screwdriver to tighten up the screw on the pivot before you attach it to something. (More on screwdrivers later.)
5. Phone chiller
- Cost: $4.20
- Shipping: $2.05
- Compare similar at: $9.99
These things have been around the markets for a few years, but we didn't really get it. It looked like a little heat sink and a fan... which, sure, it'll cool off your phone a bit while you're playing a fast-paced game, but a fan isn’t all that interesting.
This time, we stopped at one of the market stalls focused on mobile gaming gear and took a closer look. One of the boxes said "semiconductor refrigerator" or something along those lines. And that's when we realized that these things had solid-state thermoelectric Peltier coolers inside. The one we picked for you has some pretty LEDs and also has a temperature display.
It's MagSafe, but also comes with a wider flat steel disk for improved heat transfer.
6. Capacitive "finger gloves"
- Cost: $0
- Shipping: $0.06
- Compare similar at: $6.99
These things got explained to us as "for when you're doing hardcore phone gaming and your fingers get sweaty. These help make sure your phone won't be slippery.” That can't be the point of these cute little capacitive finger cots, right? I guess you can put them on over a pair of gloves to be able to use your phone with gloves on? All the gaming shops in the markets had these things. The biggest differences between the fancy ones and the cheap ones was that the fancy ones came in little metal tins and the cheap ones came in tiny press-to-seal bags. They ranged in price from about two cents to about a dollar a pair, when bought retail. When we asked for a price for a sample of the fancy ones, the shop-owner said it wasn't worth ringing us up and just handed them over.
The supplier we bought the phone chiller from had a side business in a whole range of these things, again with prices starting at a few cents each and going up to prices that didn't make a ton of sense. We asked for a quote for 330 sets of midrange finger gloves, explaining that we wanted them for the same customers who would get the phone chillers. They told us that they were including them for free as a gift for our valued customers. So, valued customers, please enjoy your gift of capacitive finger gloves!
7. 1.5 Meter self-coiling USB C cable
- Cost: $3.85
- Shipping: $0.86
- Compare similar at: $25
This one has magnets in it, but it's not designed to stick to the back of your phone! Although, upon testing, it kind of does? If you're really really careful and are trying to win an argument on a technicality.
More seriously, we've started to see these sorts of magnetic cables around the markets over the past couple of years.They've usually been very chunky or very, very expensive. One vendor quoted us upwards of $20 per cable as a wholesale price. The folks we got these cables from were much more affordable and upsold us to the "240W" super-fast-charge version of the cables for a few cents more than their cheapest option. The cable is only USB2, so it won't get fast data speeds, but it's supposed to charge devices ultra-fast. We haven't torn one apart, so we can't show off how they're arranging the magnets and also can't verify that the wires inside are actually the right gauge for all that power. But it's a pretty nifty trick to be able to throw a cable up in the air and have it land in your hand pre-coiled. And it does sit more neatly on your desk.
8. Bluetooth headphones
- Cost: $5.51
- Shipping: $1.92
- Compare similar at: $39.98
These neat headphones sort of remind us of a product we've seen somewhere before. They're very similar in design to something. It's right on the tip of our tongues. But we can't quite remember the name of the iconic consumer electronics company that makes a similar design.
Just last year, the markets in Shenzhen were flooded with similar headphones that looked almost exactly like the ones from the company we can't think of.
Heck, the markets had been flooded with those headphones for years. The design of the original headphones is so iconic that the consumer electronics company keeps.. on not changing the design.
And we suspect that that's become a problem for the Shenzhen ecosystem, which is desperate to push out newer and better fake products for people to buy.
So they've been innovating.
At first, there were headphones with cases that had a tiny little seven-segment display to spell out a couple of letters. And then there were headphones with full-color LCD touch-screens.
We almost bought you a different pair of headphones that looked like the ones in your box, but were the size of a couple of old audiocassettes and had a giant battery and a four inch screen. That headphone case showed your text messages, had a weather app, a Tetris implementation, a 2048 implementation, and the worst touch screen we've used in years. It was also advertised as having a music player. And if that set of promised features hadn't been 95% a lie, we would have gotten it for you. Because, come on, a headphone case with a full-on iPod in it? It would have been awesome.
This headphone case has a noise-cancellation toggle. (No, we can't hear a difference with noise cancellation on.) It also has a remote shutter for your phone's camera app, which seems potentially useful. And it has changeable wallpaper. And it has an app that can blast a piercing sound into either earphone in case you've lost it in the couch cushions. That app does have a helpful infographic telling you not to use it while wearing the earphones.
9. Chicken nugget Tetris game
- Cost: $2.19
- Shipping: $1.38
- Compare similar at: $21 on eBay
This is a bit of a weird one. And, given the context of the Box of Crap, that's saying something. We've included in your box a Tetris game shaped like a chicken nugget. It has full-color stickers directly printed on the nugget.
This thing is a knockoff of a McDonald’s Happy Meal toy. In 2023, McDonald's China released what Jesse considers to be possibly the greatest Happy Meal toy of all time: a fully licensed Tetris game shaped like a Chicken McNugget, packaged like a box of Chicken McNuggets.
Wandering around the markets, Jesse found a shop that had a couple of them in the window. Unfortunately, they were closed. They had a "Back later. hit us up on WeChat" message taped up to the door. So we did. We were surprised and elated when they told us that they could indeed get us hundreds of New-In-Box copies of this happy meal toy, which came with instructions, batteries, and a sheet of McDonalds themed stickers.
They sent us the invoice, with a picture of the game... and the packaging looked different. It was still clearly McNugget Tetris, though. We asked what was up and they explained that "Oh, that's just the English packaging." We zoomed in and enhanced and noticed that the directional arrows were different from the "official" version of the game. So we asked. And the response explained exactly what was going on:
"因为怕侵权所以改了些按键"—"I changed some buttons because I was afraid of infringement."
Yup! We got you a knockoff of a Happy Meal toy. The more interesting story is that it's profitable to knock off Happy Meal toys and sell them for less than $2.25.
10. 1150-in-1 screwdriver set
- Cost: $2.48
- Shipping: $10.00 (ow)
- Compare similar at: $9.98
This is the one we screwed up on. We had a couple dollars extra budget for your Boxes of Crap and after hunting around a bit online, we found a screwdriver set that looked pretty compelling. It's designed for taking things apart, and probably putting them back together, too. It's got all sorts of bits. It's got spudgers. It's got tweezers. It’s got a SIM removal tool. It’s got a magnetizer/demagnetizer. And we could get it for $2.48, which was pretty close to what we had left over for budget. Similar sets sell on Amazon for $10 and up. This seemed like a great deal.
What we failed to realize is that it weighs over a pound, which means it's costing us $10 to ship to you. That $10 is coming straight out of our profit on the box.
But it does seem to be a genuinely useful screwdriver set.
We contemplated just not shipping the screwdriver sets, but decided that we'd rather you have them.
We'll be more careful about shipping weights next time.
11. USB-C phone lanyard
- Cost: $1.45
- Shipping: $1.28
- Compare similar at: $9.99
In last year's box, we included something neat we were seeing in the markets: a phone lanyard that worked with just about any phone using a T-shaped insert that went inside your phone's case. At the time, we thought it'd be cool if, instead of a rope, they used a USB cable. We found one very fancy brand selling just such a thing at a trade show for, well, entirely too much money.
Flash forward a year later and these things were everywhere. Like seriously everywhere in the markets. They all looked identical, too. We tracked down a place that claimed to be a factory making them and not just a reseller, but the price was within just a few cents of the best price we could find in Huaqiangbei. Regardless, it’s a convenient way to tote your phone around and never be without a charge cable.
12. Multicolor eInk phone stand and card case
- Cost: $11.56
- Shipping: 1.98
- Compare similar at: $40
eInk phone cases are huge in Shenzhen this year. Dozens and dozens of suppliers had a wide variety of phone cases with an eInk screen (usually either "two color" black and white or "four color" with black, red, yellow, and white) and an NFC antenna cleverly placed in the case right near wherever the phone's NFC antenna is. The whole thing is designed to use the power it harvests from your phone's NFC to perform the eInk update when you use their app to blast a new picture onto it. There are a half-dozen (or more) case manufacturers making these things. Digging around inside their apps, they all seem to be using the same chipsets and panels. And all of the apps feel very similar, although each one feels like it was a snapshot of a vendor's codebase at a different point in the app's evolution.
The idea behind the product is that you can customize the picture on your phone case from an app. Because it’s an eInk display that harvests the energy from the NFC connection to power its display updates, it never needs a battery.
The phone cases are neat gadgets, but fail on one of our primary criteria for the Box of Crap: Items shouldn't depend on you having a specific model or brand of device.
We kept our eyes open and, lo and behold, we found an eInk item that met our specs. Yep. It's another MagSafe item. In this case, it's a wallet/stand. Or, more precisely, based on the box, it's a "DIY WALIEE"
It's the exact same eInk panel and NFC antenna that's in all of those phone cases, except it's designed to be a little bit more device-agnostic.
The WALIEE was the last item to arrive at our fulfillment warehouse because the manufacturer decided to revise the design after we'd placed the order. They tell us that the "new version" should be "100% reliable" on iPhone now, but can't promise that it'll be similarly reliable on "Samsung" because of something related to NFC antenna placement. Their explanation didn't make a ton of sense, but eInk and NFC are somewhat new to the vendor—they're a phone case manufacturer and electronics haven't historically been a part of their products.
We got curious how this thing is all put together and tore our sample apart. This is what the eInk display looks like stripped out of the case. You can see the flexpcb antenna poking out in the bottom right corner:
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This is the back of the flexible circuit board that doubles as the antenna:
We haven't reverse engineered anything about how your phone's NFC antenna talks to the screen. If you do, drop us a line!
13. RGB VU Meter
- Cost: $2.03
- Shipping: $1.15
- Compare at: $34.99 for 4, or about $7.50 each
It's got a microphone and a column of RGB lights. It strobes and blinks and glows based on your settings and the sound it can hear. It's also got a rechargeable battery inside and can be recharged with USB C. It comes with a tiny little plastic stand.
We saw these a couple of places in Huaquangbei. There, they cost about 100 RMB (USD10) if you wanted one. But if you'd buy 50, they'd drop to 10 RMB each, as long as you were buying at least 50. We found them for sale on Alibaba for just about the same price...and when we reached out to the factory, they said "oh, no, we don't do those." Nonetheless, ten minutes later, they got back to us: "How many do you want, boss?"
They were very happy to sell 'em to us. We picked the black ones (instead of the white ones) and sent our payment over. A day later, they pinged us again: "Did you want the ones you have to plug in or did you want the rechargeable model?" Being able to carry your blinky lights with you seemed like a good thing, so we asked what the uncharge was going to be to get the ones that are rechargeable... There was no upcharge. They were the same price. We don't even want to think about how cheap the batteries and charging circuitry must be.
What they didn’t tell us, and we only discovered doing this writeup, is that they sold us the Bluetooth app-connected version. Scan the tiny QR code on the instructions to install the app that lets you further customize the light show.
14. 150mm Digital Calipers
- Cost: $2.10
- Shipping: $2.08
- Compare similar at: $7.99
Everybody needs to be able to measure things. And calipers are a great way to measure size precisely. Jesse's a little bit embarrassed to admit that he's never learned to read traditional vernier calipers correctly and has always relied on digital calipers.
Well, these 6 inch (150mm) digital calipers cost us just $2.10. Almost exactly as much as those RGB VU meters above. The factory description claimed that the plastic measuring surfaces have carbon fiber embedded in them. We're not sure we believe it, but have no specific reason to doubt it.
They do, in fact, seem to measure things. Which is just great.
15. The rubber duck
- Cost: $0.90
- Shipping: $2.66
- Compare similar at: well, we couldn’t find a close dupe of this anywhere on Al Gore’s internet. You can pick up a rubber chicken dressed as a pirate for $8.95
On the rubber chicken factory's wholesale price list, this is described as a "viral screaming duck." We don't know what makes it "viral", but when we saw a rubber duck in the classic rubber chicken form-factor, we had to have one.
Edited to add: A customer reminded us what 'viral screaming duck' refers to and once they reminded us...Yeah, we absolutely saw it then and just managed to burn out those neurons. You can find the original video on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/68MbPEFR17
The factory doesn't sell these ducks retail, though. They sell them in cartons filled with 130 ducks. (Edited to add: Now, with our memories jogged, 130 ducks seems like a totally reasonable number of viral screaming ducks to buy at once.)
So we bought 390. Now each of you have a viral screaming duck! And we've got about 60 extra ducks hanging out in our warehouse in southern China. We haven't yet verified whether this form factor works well for rubber duck debugging.
This is all kind of burying the lede, though.
We now have a direct relationship with a rubber chicken factory.
We're not entirely sure what to do with this knowledge, but based on initial exploratory discussions, it would only cost about $500 to design a custom "rubber chicken" style toy. Once designed the initial order would have to be about 5000 pieces, but each one would only cost about $0.50.
16. Stretchy toilet
- Cost: $0.90
- Shipping: $1.31
- Compare at: we couldn’t find something very similar, but a $9.53 toilet-shaped stress toy is in the ballpark
Once we were ordering you rubber ducks, it seemed only right to get you another toy from the rubber chicken factory. In the end, it came down to a stretchy capybara or a stretchy toilet. (We don't know why, but capybaras are absolutely huge in the Chinese toy space this year. When Jesse visited the toy markets in Yiwu this year, there were capybaras everywhere. Toy capybaras. Stuffed capybaras. Capybara stationery. You name it, they had it.)
We're not entirely sure we made the right call in going with the stretchy toilet over a squeezy, stretchy capybara, but our 8-year-old is absolutely sure this is the best thing ever (except for robots). This is the first (and probably last) time we’re including something that looks like the box’s namesake. If it’s not to your taste, we suggest that you locally source an 8-year-old and make their day.
We thought long and hard about getting the toilets custom printed to read "Skibidi Toilet" but ultimately decided that we're too old to properly understand the joke and perhaps shouldn't encourage the youth.
One interesting thing we didn't buy you
On his first day walking around Huaqiangbei, Jesse ran into a "VR experience center" where you could spend 20 minutes using a Meta Quest 3, an Apple Vision Pro, or a "Vision SE"
You probably already know that the Vision Pro is Apple's flagship VR/AR/XR headset, but probably haven't heard a whole lot about the Apple Vision SE. Jesse sure hadn't.
That's because the "Vision SE" isn't an "Apple Vision SE". It's just a "Vision SE."
There were a bunch of kiosks in the market that had giant piles of "Vision SE" boxes stacked up. The boxes were all empty. With help from Ken, our local project manager, expediter, factory manager and all-around amazing man-on-the-ground, we got to talking with one shopkeeper who was selling the Vision SE. He explained that it was from a local company and was primarily sold "in person" and "not online" for obvious reasons. He didn't have a headset at his shop, but made a call to his supplier and they promised to send one over within an hour.
We chatted with him for a bit before someone showed up with two cases. One had the Vision SE inside it and the other had what looked like a knockoff of a Meta Quest 3. Jesse was told to try the Quest first as it was "better." And, well, it felt exactly like a Meta Quest device.
Jesse asked how they managed to make such a good copy and the guy who'd shown up with the cases explained that "No, no. That's a real Meta Quest 3. I wanted you to feel what a good device is like."
And then Jesse got to try the Vision SE. It was a run of the mill Android VR headset. The passthrough might not have even been demoed at all? But the display experience was actually pretty decent. Head tracking was excellent. And watching videos on a simulated 100" screen felt nice. The whole headset was a little clunky. Apparently, the $400 or so that the headset costs is pretty close to what their assembly cost is. At least for the Chinese market, the vendor intends to make their money by selling on-device content.
After playing around for a bit, Jesse took the headset off and chatted with the guy who'd brought the devices over. He turned out to be an engineer for the headset manufacturer. He was very up-front about the Vision SE being a terrible product compared to Apple's device, even though it's pretty advanced for the ecosystem that created it. He quickly followed up with "give us a couple of years, though, and you're going to be really impressed."
Wrap-up
Every time we go to Shenzhen, we find different interesting stuff to share. Some of it is amazing because it’s impossibly inexpensive. Some of it is amazing because it’s just weird. Very occasionally, some of it is actually useful.
We hope that you’ve enjoyed this little slice of weird stuff we found in the markets. If you got a Box of Crap this time around, we hope you get hours (or at least minutes) of amusement out of it. If you didn’t get a Box of Crap this time around, scroll down to the bottom of the page and sign up for our mailing list.
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Fine print
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