Profit margins....
Seems many conversations on these forums relate to cost cutting corners taken by RV manufacturers'... undersized tires / wheels / axles , electric vs. disc brakes , insulation materials, frame ty...
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cdlaine,
Most North American people are in the same boat and mindset as you say you are. The ever constant quest to buy the cheapest of anything which forces most of the good quality manufacturers to cheapen their products to compete with the other cheaply built products on the market or go out of business. At the same time, the workers strike, demand, etc to force the employer to ever increase wages and benefits which throws gasoline on the already burning hot fire. It's a crash course on how to decimate and ruin an economy and it has. Add in ever increasing taxes and stifiling regulations and a host of other costly killing factors like giving many freebies and aid of some sort for nearly half the population and look what we've created now. Not pretty is it? The chickens have come home to roost!
Cheap price and quality design, materials, and construction are very very seldom found in the same sentence. Even less in products in the marketplace. However, that's what the buying public wants and they are not and will not be getting it.
Adequate profit is NOT a dirty word, it a "must happen" requirement. No profit and the doors WILL close!
Most of the stuff sold here in our country etc is imported from 3rd world countries and you'll find gobs of them in nearly every home. Who here worked and was paid to produce those items? This in turn forced the domestic manufacturers here to move manufacturing overseas to compete or close their doors. Your reference is to RV so, in RV's, some like Carriage and several other high quality manufacturers refused to build cheap junk and most of the them are no longer in business today. I'll bet you can name 50+ past quality manufacturers no longer in business or who now import all or most of their products or the components in them. We did it to ourselves and "Walla" we're not happy now with our success?
Most North American people are in the same boat and mindset as you say you are. The ever constant quest to buy the cheapest of anything which forces most of the good quality manufacturers to cheapen their products to compete with the other cheaply built products on the market or go out of business. At the same time, the workers strike, demand, etc to force the employer to ever increase wages and benefits which throws gasoline on the already burning hot fire. It's a crash course on how to decimate and ruin an economy and it has. Add in ever increasing taxes and stifiling regulations and a host of other costly killing factors like giving many freebies and aid of some sort for nearly half the population and look what we've created now. Not pretty is it? The chickens have come home to roost!
Cheap price and quality design, materials, and construction are very very seldom found in the same sentence. Even less in products in the marketplace. However, that's what the buying public wants and they are not and will not be getting it.
Adequate profit is NOT a dirty word, it a "must happen" requirement. No profit and the doors WILL close!
Most of the stuff sold here in our country etc is imported from 3rd world countries and you'll find gobs of them in nearly every home. Who here worked and was paid to produce those items? This in turn forced the domestic manufacturers here to move manufacturing overseas to compete or close their doors. Your reference is to RV so, in RV's, some like Carriage and several other high quality manufacturers refused to build cheap junk and most of the them are no longer in business today. I'll bet you can name 50+ past quality manufacturers no longer in business or who now import all or most of their products or the components in them. We did it to ourselves and "Walla" we're not happy now with our success?
