For $2.50 a pair?
That's the trouble with Maine. People from away always trying to outwit us ... and succeeding. No way José am I sellin' you them sneaks for $2.50. You're just going to have to give me more of the $39.99 you're goin' to sell'em for. In fact, I don't give a hoot what you sell'em for, longs I get somethin' like $6.50 a pair for'em.
BTW, if they was sellin' retail in Shanghai for $2.50, those wily ex-laundrymen musta been makin'em for about 35 cents!
I once did a job for an outfit that was importing bikes from China. With 20 American employees and 1 small warehouse, they were creaming about $15 Million a year ... and growing. Drop ship to major retailers and pick up the check. They were buying themselves expensive ($1,000 and up frames) Euro bikes, taking pictures of'em and sending digitized isometrics to China, where they could make a reasonable (sorta) facsimile for next to nothing, ship it all the way here, and retail it in WM for O say, $239.95 and make a $70 profit! Their turn around time on a new model was astoundingly short.
One Chinese bike factory was also a prison. "Good news for You! You make 10 bike today Wong, you get two bowl rice, and best of all, you are no longer a kidney donor!"
Point is, maybe this outsourcing will have to stop when none of us can buy anything ... no matter how cheap. Remember Henry Ford and his $5 a day? Maybe we ought to try a little of that.