Braun: Made in Where?
Yesterday, as we were walking through the city arcades, a friend of mine bough a spare blade for his Braun shaver. A usual thing, nothing special:
However, the reverse side of the pack caught my attention. Most of people would say that there is nothing special either:
Let’s have a closer look and comfort ourselves: it costs $70, but at least it says it is made in Germany.
It also says something about Lu Chun Road, Shanghai and China in the paragraph with strange letters, but why should that bother us? It explicitly says “Made in Germany” in English. Moreover, the Chinese address may be the address of an importer or a distributor.
Maybe. But if you know that the “strange letters” are Russian and try to translate the first tree words, you will find out that “Сделано в Китае” means “Made in China”:
It’s interesting now, why the Russian paragraph is the only one that honestly says where the product came from instead of reminding the customers that they should spend another $70 in 18 months, as it is done in English, German, French and Italian? And why English-speaking customers are told lies?
2 June 2010
