Market / Supply Chain Economics

I'm looking into the myth that all things made outside of the west are trash and all things inside are God tier, but can't find anything other than "China quality control bad and Americans work harder because muh craftsmanship"

Sorry if this is a little off topic or the wrong place to post, just curious

I look endlessly for parts on alibaba, rn for solar batteries. And I have tried to ship for parts like cooling fans but then I am bitten by shipping at the end....

Now I find myself having to inquire about each part because the prices listed aren't accurate.

How to get what I need?

Months ago a ordered over $100 of components to complete a custom watercooling rig/loop for my workstation which I have begun to document in !gem and which should be completed shortly by the end of this year.

But I am still waiting for most of them which have been stuck at the 'customs clearance complete" stage for quite a while. Now most of those have been marked as complete in aliexpress and I have 15 days to file a dispute.

I will shortly try to pull up their tracking numbers and see if there is movement in the next couple of days. But I think I need to do the dispute.

Protectionists stop being lil *****.

They offered $65 + $16 shipping. The Instinct MI25 is not much more, $130, and just better. I will prob not even use the S9150 much unless I need the FP64 for something because it's relatively slow and power hungry.

I hope this community is ok for this site.

Edit: wow unixsurplusnet (ebay) is selling it for $99. gonna wait till the end of the year prob when I finish the workstation.

they have good hard drive and PSU deals too.