Internet users of the Asian giant were also surprised by the price of the item, about $ 62, fifteen times more than it costs in China.
The American company Amazon sells a baby potty for children and presents it as a ‘traditional Chinese fruit basket from the 1960s,’ which has surprised millions of internet users in the Asian country, local media reported on Sunday.
The e-commerce giant indicates that the article has been the Chinese for decades too they used as a spittoonIt can be used to store fruit and vegetables, as an ice bucket, as a decorative element in the kitchen or even as a wedding gift.
The news went viral in China, where people shared it under the hashtag “other ways to use a spittoon”, reaching more than 50 million users on the Chinese social network Sina Weibo.
Some internet users are surprised that the object costs $ 61.96, as it can be bought in the Asian country for only $ 4 on the Chinese electronic trading platform Taobao, about 15 times less. However, there it is presented as a spittoon or portable urinal.
“Very interesting”
“I hope no one in other countries will buy this ‘basket’ and send it as a gift to their Chinese friends, because no Chinese would be happy to see a spittoon subtly filled with fruit,” writes one Weibo user.
$ 60? I can’t believe my childhood little jar is more valuable than meAnother netizen pointed bitterly at the product, which was very popular in Chinese households in the 1980s and 1990s.
However, there are also people who maintain the cultural difference when they are confronted with the product, that does not have to be a problem. “It’s very interesting to see how things can be used differently in other cultures,” says one user. “As long as buyers like it, it shouldn’t matter what it was ‘originally’ used for,” he says.
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