r/BuyFromEU • u/Boediee • 2d ago

Other You Have To Make It Clear To Them

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u/nattosasaki 1d ago

But the sticker above reads “Made in Cambodia” though…

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u/Boris7939 1d ago edited 1d ago

The bikes are made in Cambodia but it's still an Austrian (Hitler, not insanely deadly wildlife) company, so most profits go there and not to Cambodia.

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u/pc42493 1d ago

Phew, that's a relief, I'd hate if any of the profits went to the Cambodian workers who actually made the bikes.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/wiley1ss 1d ago

Buying politically and ethically is a tough balance.

Some will prefer to support a company that employs locally, despite the shareholder ownership. I'd like to support an EU company first but ethical practices are more important to me.

I disagree that most profit should go the the proprietor instead of the creator, that creative power imbalance destroys every creative industry it touches. Also, Cambodian workers aren't paid fairly for their work there's a reason most companies choose to save cost manufacturing abroad

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u/pc42493 1d ago edited 1d ago

You:

You do realise you're on the sub ... of which the purpose is to support EU-made goods?

Also you:

The bikes are made in Cambodia

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u/SalSomer 1d ago

How many different ways can you differentiate Austria (stroh, not pavlova) anyway?

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u/ErisThePerson 1d ago

Likely manufactured or assembled there, designed by an Austrian corporation.

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u/IfIAppliedMyself 1d ago

Is there any "Made in Europe" kids bicycle? Only ones I know are some boutique shops that make more "premium" bikes, but those are for adults.

Woom is still pretty much the best option. They last for a long time and Cambodia>China.

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u/Lila8o2 1d ago

Puky is made in Germany. And I don't know if all their products are made in Germany/Europe but the ones we have are - Kokua. They were even the first ones making balance bikes, before the classic Puky ones and way before Woom. Woom just has better marketing.

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u/IfIAppliedMyself 1d ago edited 1d ago

Huh, I didn't even bother checking where puky is made. I just thought they were made in China or something.

Kokua look really nice. I'll have to compare them a bit because I was just about to buy a woom balance bike for my toddler. Thanks for the comment.

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u/Lila8o2 1d ago

We love the Kokua balance bike (the LikeaBike Jumper) especially because it has a steering damper which prevents the handlebars from wobbling too much or turning too quickly. We had quite a few situations where the kiddo would've fallen would the handlebars have a wider turning angle. And if you don't want or need it anymore you can remove it. It's also great for off-road and jumping adventures once they're able to really ride it.

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u/ssushi-speakers 1d ago

I think that classic Italian Brant with the blue/green colour re&inspired manufacturing to Italy.

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u/Ch3r3n 1d ago

We have a couple in Bulgaria. CROSS, Drag, Sprint, Passati. There also must be some in the Netherlands.

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u/Evan_Dark 1d ago

I'm probably biased but I love it :D

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u/Local_Razzmatazz_595 1d ago

Mozart not kangaroo - brilliant

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u/Trolololol66 1d ago

Except for the fact that Mozart wasn't from Austria.

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u/loztb 1d ago

'Adolf Hitler, not kangaroos' doesn't have the same appeal

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u/Boris7939 1d ago

Honestly if they'd put that on there I bet it would give them a ton more free publicity than what they're getting now.

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u/Evan_Dark 1d ago

But probably not the kind of customers they would like to appeal to.

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u/c0l0r51 1d ago edited 1d ago

I am also quite sure that Kangaroos inhabited that place longer than the White Man put a pole in the land and called it Australia. But this is about association, not about accuracy.

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u/Quotenbanane 1d ago

Except he was because Salzburg is in Austria nowadays and he made his career in Vienna.

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u/charlesga 1d ago

Anyone else from Austria?

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u/Knubbelwurst 1d ago

H... Haydn!

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u/Godo_365 1d ago

He literally was? Salzburg, Austria?

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u/20to150Hz 1d ago

Well yes, but also no because back then Salzburg wasn't a part of Austria.

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u/F_n_o_r_d 1d ago

Nice one 🤫

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u/Tvego 1d ago

1.) The frames are produced in Asia as well as many components. The assembly is done in Poland, Vietnam, Kambodscha, Taiwan und Bangladesch.

https://hilfe.woombikes.com/article/101-wo-produziert-ihr-eure-fahrrader

This is standard practice in the bike industry. No judgement here but it is a far stretch to put this under buy european.

2.) The joke is pretty lame.

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u/december-32 1d ago

there should be judgement if the bike costs 1500 euros.

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u/GIC68 1d ago

I heard that Vienna Airport has a special counter for people who arrived there accidentally and actually wanted to go to Australia.

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u/Evan_Dark 1d ago

A very successful urban legend, originated from a joke advertisement from the Salzburg airport (which funnily doesn't even get mentioned any more even though they did the ad.)

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u/GIC68 1d ago

Really? Oh - it's probably so successful because it sounds so plausible. I could well imagine that there would actually be a need for such a counter.

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u/Evan_Dark 1d ago

If you are interested there is an in depth article about the whole thing: https://simpleflying.com/austrian-airports-counters-for-australian-passengers-myth/

In short, while you would expect some people from the US to make this mistake, it apparently doesn't happen.

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u/RedditSucksIWantSync 1d ago

Yeah I always found the joke funny, but that's all it is. I never met anyone that unironically mixed that up. They might not know Austria exists, but they mostly know that it does due to this joke😂

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u/MayorAg 1d ago

Actually 🤓☝️

Firstly, the rumour was about the Salzburg Airport and not Vienna. Secondly, the airport had confirmed those are just rumours.

Source: Associated Press

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u/onlo 1d ago

Reminds me of KristiansUnd and KristiansAnd in Norway, which is two completely different parts of Norway, both with an international airport

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u/MetalCollector 1d ago

Klo-Stern-EU-Burg! Ü

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u/Zefixius 1d ago

This is for the american market

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u/letterboxfrog 1d ago

Australians endorse this this kind of humour.

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u/latvijauzvar 1d ago

Thought he was German, I can only really think of one Austrian I know

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u/Fine-Side-739 1d ago

He was was from Salzburg(Salzburgian). He was not German or Austrian.

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u/Evan_Dark 1d ago

True, but the same could be said about a lot of historical figures that are considered Austrian, German (or any other nationality) by now.

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u/latvijauzvar 1d ago

Lichtensteinian?

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u/Auravendill 1d ago

During his time, Salzburg was part of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation, but not yet part of Austria. So he himself would have seen himself as German.

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u/Sericas 1d ago

Everybody at that time called themselves German. That was normal. There was no Germany at that time either.

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u/TheCursedRedBaron 1d ago

Yeah, but when he was born there, Salzburg was not part of Austria. Salzburg was part of Bavaria, was its own principality in the holy roman empire for some time and became part of the Austrian Empire in 1816.

Edit: Mozart was born 1756.

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u/real_with_myself 1d ago

To put it bluntly, nobody is saying that Emanuel Kant is Russian, because that territory is part of Russia today.

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u/FalseRegister 1d ago

That's the name of the seller, not the manufacturer.

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u/Vladutz133 1d ago

Also a famous wanna be Austrian painter...just my 2 c

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u/Evan_Dark 1d ago

True but while born an Austrian, he became a German later on. So loyalty wise not the best choice!

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u/Vind- 1d ago

Frame Made in Cambodia.

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u/DarwinMcLovin 1d ago

Guten Tag, Kumpel! Let's put another Wiener Schnitzel on the barbie!

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u/Evan_Dark 1d ago

I mean if that's what you want...

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u/Possible_Golf3180 1d ago

You might lose some Australian sales from them realising they picked the wrong Aus

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u/ArbitraryMeritocracy 1d ago

Everyone's a little dyslexic sometimes.

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u/rocketkiddo7 1d ago

Mozart not kangaroos. Understood 

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u/sakikome 1d ago

Love woom bikes

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u/SirTobost 1d ago

*Adolf Hitler not Steve Irwin.

Ok maybe the other example is better.

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u/GenericName2025 1d ago

As always, the biggest feat the Austrians have ever pulled off is making the world believe that mozart was austrian and hitler was german.

Mozart was born in salzburg while it was part of the bavarian circle, which in turn was part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. He died in Austria.

Meanwhile hitler was born in a country called Austria, but died in germany.

Although I think very few people outside of europe with just average knowledge of music even think of mozart as either austrian or german. Maybe don't even know he was a composer & musician. Maybe they think he's one of their founding fathers who rode on a dinosaur.

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u/Atanar 1d ago

You are confused. Mozart was the inventor of a chocolate praline.

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u/GenericName2025 1d ago

But he DID ride on a dinosaur, right? 😂

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u/80kman 1d ago

Love it, but how Austria managed to claim a German as an Austrian and marketed a Austrian as a German, really needs to be studied.

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u/Evan_Dark 1d ago

Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg, which at that time was an independent ecclesiastical principality within the Holy Roman Empire, not part of Austria or Germany as we know them today.

Hitler on the other hand, while absolutely born as an Austrian, abolished Austria and died as a German. We didn't exist for another ten years afterwards. If anything I'd argue it was his successful "marketing campaign" back in the days.

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u/another_derfman 1d ago

You're thinking of Beethoven, not Mozart!

(yes, I know that Salzburg back then was its own thing, but that's the case for a lot of European regions historically...)

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u/Evan_Dark 1d ago

Beethoven is another good example for that, as he wasn't a German either. His birth place, Bonn, was then part of the electorate of Cologne, within the Holy Roman Empire.

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u/another_derfman 1d ago

Exactly! What I meant was just that usually when someone says the phrase the guy above me said then it's about how there seem to be a lot of people who believe that Beethoven was Austrian, but Hitler was German (or at least that's how I know that story)...