Chinese sellers on Amazon hawk spittoons as fruit baskets to foreigners

Also traditionally used as chamber pots, the bowls, known as ‘tan yu’ in China, have been seen online marketed as ‘Chinese traditional antiques’
An investigation found the Amazon sellers were mostly based in mainland China, according to addresses attached to sellers’ profiles

25 Feb 2021 - 1:25PM

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Chinese sellers on Amazon hawk spittoons as fruit baskets to foreigners

25 Feb 2021 - 1:25PM

Also traditionally used as chamber pots, the bowls, known as ‘tan yu’ in China, have been seen online marketed as ‘Chinese traditional antiques’
An investigation found the Amazon sellers were mostly based in mainland China, according to addresses attached to sellers’ profiles

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