Just had an extremely revalating experience.

I’ve got my old Koss Porta Pro with broken cable, and I’ve been willing to replace it for some time. I had a though: huh, if everyone buys things on Temu, let’s look for it there. I spent literally hour trying to search for it, using all combinations of search terms and languages I know — all I got was “ready cables, just plug it in”. It was exactly what I wanted to avoid.

Then I head to allegro. One search term, and I got exactly what I was looking for. And mostly for the same price!

After thinking about it for a bit, and looking at differences, I can spot one thing: usually, products that are coming from Europe, are focused on getting your work done. No, or very limited attempt to hijack your attention to make you buy some shit you don’t want to buy (at least in my experience). At the same time most popular products from other places are trying to give you more: they can work as a good source for inspiration for things you might want, but not right now.

I guess this is generally a superpower of European products: you can get your work done. Though, they are not as successful, simply because “getting work done” and “selling more stuff” are quite opposite directions :)