Can I has duck banana?
January 30, 2022 10:21 PM   Subscribe

I want a 100% reliable, not sketchy, preferably more ethical than Amazon way to buy the duck banana yard ornament haunting my Instagram ads. All links via Amazon, etsy, Walmart, etc point me to the same Ali Express clones that look like crap.
posted by Grandysaur to Grab Bag (4 answers total) 4 users marked this as a favorite
 
I hate to break it to you but a solid 80% of the products in you Insta ads are in fact AliExpress crap, not great products cloned by AE for the crap market. I get ads for hair drain blockers and they are just resellers of the same silicon product from AE -- there is no magical Ur drain blocker.
posted by DarlingBri at 11:05 PM on January 30, 2022 [6 favorites]


Go ahead and buy the thing off AliExpress unless you are morally opposed. I had been getting bombarded with ads for a goose sweater for weeks, so instead of buying it at markup from whatever retailer was advertising on Instagram, I found the sweater on AliExpress and bought it there for half the price. And you know what? It's a perfectly fine sweater, and damn cute. Nearly all these sellers are just reselling inexpensive AliExpress items at markup anyway, you're most likely getting the exact same product cutting out the middle man.
posted by phunniemee at 5:17 AM on January 31, 2022


Best answer: The original banana ducks are public sculptures in Dubai (I haven't been able to track down the maker) and not mass-produced as far as I can tell, so anything you're actually going to be able to purchase will by definition be a knockoff. I would be surprised if high-quality reproductions existed anywhere.
posted by wreckingball at 8:46 AM on January 31, 2022 [4 favorites]


Do you have access to a 3D printer? You can print it and paint it/weatherproof it etc. yourself.

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/home/funny-banana-duck-model
posted by methroach at 11:46 AM on January 31, 2022


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