Sam Fenwick
speaker
941 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Sam Fenwick’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 9 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 4.
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So most of that fortnight's 2 million units were fans, not air conditioners, around 90% of them.
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The air conditioners were the other 10% at roughly $400 per unit.
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And as we sit here talking today, the temperature in Paris where you are is what temperature is it?
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Have you managed to buy a fan?
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Or are they all sold out?
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And when something becomes a necessity and there isn't enough of it, what happens to the price?
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So that's 10% across the market.
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Now, my colleague Gideon Long has been looking into where that 10% actually comes from.
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And that, Gideon, brings us on to the issue of resale, doesn't it?
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And we have seen some wild prices on some of these resale sites.
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What about eBay?
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Did you bid for that?
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Have Amazon and eBay said anything about this?
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So who's profiting?
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Well, not, it turns out, the company that made the thing in the first place.
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Here's Tobias Strobel again from the Chinese manufacturer Madea.
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Tobias says Medea is already planning a big increase in orders for next year.
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So it seems a box of cold air has become like a ticket, not a cup final ticket, not a sold out gig ticket.
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It's a ticket to a good night's sleep.
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And like any ticket, once the box office is empty, the price is whatever someone is willing to pay.
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