Bottled air being sold to the Chinese at $32 a bottle!

[madoka]

I guess it's one way to reduce the trade deficit.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/29/bott...ada-nz-fetches-over-30-in-smog-hit-china.html

How much are people in smog-hit China prepared to pay for fresh air? At least 219 yuan ($31.80) for a 7.7-litre bottle of "pure, hand-bottled, pollution-free, oxygen-rich air from New Zealand" – which works out to 1.2 yuan per breath, according to Chinese media.

The bottled fresh air offered by about half a dozen online retailers is become a "thriving business" as people struggle with choking smog in the northern areas of the country this winter, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.

The report said retailers were selling "unpolluted air" from New Zealand and Canada in bottles. The bottles even come with breathing masks attached.

Prices of bottled air varied according to their places of origin, according to the report.

A 7.7-liter bottle of "pure, hand-bottled, pollution-free and oxygen-rich air from New Zealand" normally costs 699 yuan, but thanks to a hefty discount it is being sold for 219 yuan per bottle.

This worked out to 1.2 yuan per breath based on the retailer's claim that each bottle contained enough air for the buyer to take at least 180 gulps, the report said.

At least two bottles of the New Zealand air have been bought in the past month.

Another 7.2-litre bottle of "Vitality Air", reportedly collected in Canada, costs a mere 108 yuan.

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[sandorski]

 

[Newbian]

Just be careful and don't buy bottle fart air by mistake.

 

[JTsyo]

Are these bottles compressed air or at 1 atm? I suppose this is a better trade to be in for them than animal parts.

 

[PottedMeat]

i swear this has been posted before - maybe by OP even

 

[cbrunny]

How do you hand bottle air?

 

[madoka]

i swear this has been posted before - maybe by OP even

That article only came out two weeks ago. So nope, you're wrong.

 

[sdifox]

How do you hand bottle air?

Hand air pump duh.

 

[RandomWords]

in highschool we all were put in groups and told to create a product and present them as a commercial. My group came up with the idea to sell bottled air... my teacher thought we were lazy and it was a horrible product. That was 20 years ago... shows what she knew!

 

[Newbian]

i swear this has been posted before - maybe by OP even

The story is over a year old and it's been discussed before.

 

[madoka]

The story is over a year old and it's been discussed before.

Not on this site.

Prove me wrong.

 

[Newbian]

Not on this site.

Prove me wrong.

A quick google comes up with multiple news posts over a year old about this topic and it's been talked about before here somewhere.

An example:

http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=threads/the-imf-good-or-bad.2166607/#post-31742984

 

[microAmp]

i swear this has been posted before - maybe by OP even

I agree, I've seen a bottled air post before.

 

[madoka]

A quick google comes up with multiple news posts over a year old about this topic and it's been talked about before here somewhere.

An example:

http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=threads/the-imf-good-or-bad.2166607/#post-31742984

Oh please, a single four year old post from some guy joking about bottled air vending machines doesn't count. Plenty of guys posted about bottled air as a joke.

 

[Naer]

Pollution in China= bottled air market

 

[sdifox]

https://www.amazon.com/Boost-Oxygen...&qid=1481517454&sr=8-2&keywords=oxigen+bottle

 

[Newbian]

Oh please, a single four year old post from some guy joking about bottled air vending machines doesn't count. Plenty of guys posted about bottled air as a joke.

These news stories about bottle air being sold is old also in china.

 

[Newbian]

Pollution in China= bottled air market

Just don't buy ones made in china.