DougE wrote:
China is going through the same cycle as Japan. Initially everything from Japan was junk. Now it seems to be the best. With China we'll just have to suffer through this transition phase and hope it's not too long.
A well respected educated friend told me that China is committed to selling you something only once and at the very possible lowest price. They doubt your business will return and they don't care. They go to great lengths to copy a normally quality product in the cheapest way and sometimes will play around with the brand name. If you aren't careful you will think this "brand" is good but on close inspection you see it is spelled slightly different. This is why many American companies go to China for production. Cheap junk comes in as a result. They have an abundent cheap labor force with no EPA restrictions.