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Let’s start the economics 101 lesson at the factory floor. A $20 jelly rubber dildo is manufactured in China, not by a dildo designer, not by a sex toy maker, but by the same factory outlets as are manufacturing countless soft vinyl toys and dollar store gadgets for the North American market. The sole expertise that the manufacturer is offering is the ability to pour vinyl into multiple molds and then employ cheap labour to insert pre-assembled toy-quality motors and switches into the cavity. The manufacturer who secures the contract to churn out these rubber dildos is not the one who makes the best sex toy, it's the one that ships at the lowest per unit cost. At the point where that jelly rubber dildo rolls out of its mold conveyor belt and off of the factory floor its cost is about $1. So, pre-packing and pre-export, your $20 jelly dildo contains $1 worth of material, labour, and assembly cost.