I Spent $500 Ordering from China: Here’s What Actually Arrived I’m not one to follow trends blindly. In fact, I usually avoid anything that’s hyped up on social media. But when I started seeing the same sleek, minimal white sneakers everywhere for $200 a pop, I had a hunch: they probably came from the same factory that sells them for $20 on Chinese wholesale sites. So I did what any curious middle-class collector would do—I clicked ‘add to cart’ on a few platforms and waited. This is the story of how I spent $500 on Chinese goods, what arrived, what didn’t, and why I’m both a convert and a skeptic.…