Comment on I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308
fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There are six components to this grill scrubber and at least two are from foreign source. The chain mail is from China and the top knob is from Costa Rica. He also said the handle string is of unknown source. I’m bit disappointed that he just slapped a Made in USA label on it and called it good. For 75 dollars I expect a bit better.
I wish Destine did a better cost breakdown of every component of the scrubber and how he ended up with the $75 price tag at the end. He did that with the chain mail but didn’t discuss the cost associated with any other part of the process. That leads me to believe this video was more leaning towards making money rather actually trying to get to the bottom of problem with manufacturing a product in the US. Sadly I’m left disappointed.
aidan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I think thats a kinda dumb purity test when they clearly did put a lot of effort into actually trying, and I don’t see why its better if they threw away the supply they already mistakenly bought.
fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No I’m not suggesting that he throw away perfectly good materials. I disagree that he put a lot of effort into really trying. There was little to no follow up after discovering the parts weren’t from US. There was no attempt to contact the American chain mail supplier about limited capacity. Why is it that they can only supply so little amount? What would it take to increase capacity? Is it lack of people, machinery or investment? We don’t know because it wasn’t in the video. Same thing with the knobs that came from Costa Rica. There was no follow up. He didn’t even try to source knobs made locally. He just said he will later. He started out the video sounding like he was determined to figure out a way to complete task of trying to make a product made locally but he kinda just gave up and decided to just ship the product as is. The video started out as an education video but slowly turned into a marketing video. I find that disappointing.