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Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank

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258 points arnon | 1 comments | 21 Sep 25 12:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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cenamus ◴[21 Sep 25 13:07 UTC] No.45322381[source]▶
20Ah for 23 bucks? Seems like it's almost too good to be true. Wouldn't surprise me if it was just half that, would explain the price and weight.
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NedF ◴[21 Sep 25 21:49 UTC] No.45326979[source]▶
> Wouldn't surprise me if it was just half that,

This was openly crowdfunded in Japan. Please explain the lie/scam for us? How does Makuake rip people off?

https://www.makuake.com/project/haribo_dcglobal/

Is this comment anything more than the normal shit HN negativity?

Nihilism is so cool, thinking is so hard, if I try I might fail.

Sure you might be right. Just want to know where the scam is here?

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1. numpad0 ◴[22 Sep 25 10:04 UTC] No.45331235[source]▶
Makuake is supposed to be a crowdfunding site but it's more of Groupon now. Lots of "projects" are just rebadges from AliExpress, profiting from the fact that English proficiency of Japanese consumers as well as appetite for foreign sold product is effectively zero, virtually unexisting those websites.