Amazon sells Chinese baby pots as a traditional fruit basket

 Millions of Chinese internet surfers were shocked to see an item used as a baby potty and spittoon in China being sold on Amazon as a 'traditional fruit basket' to gullible foreigners - also for a princely dollar amount.
Advertised as a "1960s Chinese Traditional Fruit Basket" that could be used as a chic "table decoration" to store fresh produce, ice cream, or wine, the attractive jar of ducks on the side sold on Amazon for $ 61.96.
Amused Chinese who came across the product page, however, quickly pointed out that the jar was not made for fruit storage and was instead used in China as a spittoon or a baby potty.
"OMG! Almost every Chinese aged 35 and over knows this is a typical portable potty, mostly for kids," warned one Amazon user. to know the original purpose. "
This product is a portable toilet. Please don't buy it for food, 'another user wrote, while others called the misleading product page' disgusting 'and' offensive ', calling for its removal.
For some Chinese users, the real scandal was the $ 61.96 price tag, with the Global Times reporting that the item is sold in China for the equivalent of just $ 4.
The product page has since been taken down, but not before the blunder went viral in China, with the "other ways a spittoon is used" social media topic on Sina Weibo reportedly over 50 million views.
Weibo users jokingly expressed concern about unwitting foreigners sending fruit in the jars to their Chinese friends, noting that "no Chinese people would feel happy to see a delicately wrapped spittoon with fruit in it."
It is currently unknown whether the "traditional fruit basket" was sold as a joke by a Westerner or a Chinese.