NEW DELHI: Just over two hours after Donald Trump was fatally shot at during a protest in Pennsylvania, online Chinese shops began selling memory T-shirts with images that illustratively depict the assassination attempt just as the former president escaped.
Li Jinwei, a seller for Taobao, stated:” We put the T-shirts on Taobao as soon as we saw the news about the shooting, even though we had n’t even printed them, and within three hours we saw orders from both China and the US.”
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The use of online printing technology, which made it possible to print and list T-shirts for sale pretty fast, increased production and sales. According to a Guangdong-based business called Xinflying Digital Printing Generation, their digital printing devices may produce 8 election-related T-shirts per minute.
Data from the Chinese cross-border e-commerce platform DHgate showed the transaction volume of election-related souvenirs had grown over 40 % month-over-month since January, with over 110 % growth in March.
Because of the T-shirt factories ‘ ability to quickly produce the goods using their online publishing features, they were able to achieve this quick return on the Trump shooting. Li’s shop in Hebei province may complete a T-shirt in about one minute.
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