Recently I was quite delighted to find out that galaxus.de has a "country of origin" filter. The delight quickly faded when I realized that it was quite unreliable, e.g. one size of a USB stick was made supposedly made in Germany while another was supposedly made in China (which I found quite unbelievable). To be fair, they do write "Specifications may include unverified machine translations."
Does anybody know of a (tech or other) online shop where this works? Or tipps how to quicker navigate real and fake/mistaken "country of origin" labels?
Galaxus on their website: https://www.galaxus.at/en/page/transparency-regarding-countries-of-origin-34177
But unless the majority of value was added in branding for some variants, I don't understand why the 64GB variant of https://www.galaxus.de/en/s1/product/goodram-ume3-usb-30-128gb-eco-friendly-128-gb-usb-a-usb-memory-sticks-17543048 is "made in germany" while the 128GB is made in China.
So I assume their "machine translation" hallucinates at some point.
One could argue, that the majority of value is probably in the flash chips and/or flash controllers and as such the country of origin is probably always Taiwan (or another Asian state)