he will be paying for repairs

none of that shit can be repaired. No parts availability. See most of the Chinese drop-shipped crap at Big box stores.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO2qmcO9Be0

Otherwise, lots of smaller quality home builders have been doing this for decades. They usually fly their client to China to tour around for a week or two, select all the stuff they want, and package it, and then have it shipped to the build site, which still comes in quite a bit cheaper than buying lower quality Chinese imports from the local market.

Granted, it only works if you have experience in home building or have enough cash to actually warrant furnishing a house with top quality stuff. But the last builder I talked to said the client spent about 20k on stuff that would have otherwise costed as much as 75k in the US, despite the more expensive option most likely being an inferior product imported from China.

Seriously, go into any existing furniture store. It is basically rebranded Temu junk at insane prices. The way its going, I'm honestly surprised everyone hasn't just given up and started using folding ABS plastic everywhere.

I want to read a story about how this guy does something like that. That would be newsworthy.

According to Harvard alumna Nancy Berliner (白铃安), during the construction, one incident involved a raccoon that entered the storage room. The Chinese craftsmen killed it with a shovel, skinned it, and cooked it for food.

But yeah, I thought this was going to be about having a house built in China and then loaded on a boat and shipped. A manufactured house or maybe a doublewide. But no, the guy just bought fancy house materials for cheap by skipping the middleman.

Clickbait.

Guy fills his house with stuff bought on Alibaba and Temu.