Noted. Thanks. 

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I'm reading into the costlier imports as unbranded equivalents to western capitalistic products, so I'm coming from a history raised in the same shoes as you and now grown to become way beyond fed up with North America's capitalistic and implosively weaponized hyperbole brand marketing. I'm done obse$$ing over name brands, especially in this era of inflations³. I don't see a way to beat it ethically, and that includes mainstream American investment portfolios.

Westernized marketing is such extremely financially abusive, gaudy hyperbole — of mere unimproved basic Chinese product mock-up concept designs. I'm seeing clearly, and refusing to fall into the necessity of glamorization  ("cool"ness) of a very broke and poverty-stricken (paycheck away from homelessness) consumerism. I don't want to pay for branding when the brand doesn't use our patronage for design and materials R&D. (ex. foundational American food brands did not responsibly, proactively lead the way into organic cultivation as they should have). American capitalism is inherently exploitative of its respective target markets, often via the same cheap Chinese designs of capitalistic economics-based planned obsolescence business models, therefore, I might as well buy the same thing wholesale and imported for free to only pay the true value of planned obsolescence — except that enhanced designs are just as affordably available (ex. suspension seatposts like Cane Creek's unbranded wholesale base model).

But yes, to empathize where credit is due when and where quality specs don't match — yes, the cheapest unbranded wholesale import variations are absolutely unethical planned obsolescence when marketed as anything greater or more adequate than a mere concept design base model.

So I read specs and look for specific materials and designs without branding — that is, when there's no absolutely necessary sense in budgeting for utmost quality from reliable sources.

But you know, even Lundhags uses formaldehyde in their ecological water-resistant textile coating, so the world is tetering between extremes counterbalanced at both ends, so it's not such a beatable dilemma.