What is the most common specification mistake?
Short answer
Stating length in inches only. US retail sells in inches; the mould is cut in millimetres.
In detail
A buyer who sends inches and no millimetre target leaves the factory to round, and rounding is where a 5-inch bait becomes 4.9.
Where this answer comes from
Part of the product record Soft plastic formats: what the 2026 launches actually are (Soft plastic formats). The record carries the tables this answer is drawn from, the fields a factory needs before quoting, and an explicit list of what has not been verified.
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Sampled listings from the same product family (Soft plastic formats). Reference price per unit with the MOQ stated; a quotation against your specification governs a transaction.
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