WEN inverter generators on woot.com today only

2oldman wrote:

wanderingaimlessly wrote:
There is decent stuff made in China, along with the drek. It's a matter of the spec they are required to build to..

It is, or was, my understanding that it's just the final assembly that happens in China. The design and specs come from here, or in Honda's case, Japan, which is more important than simply putting the parts together.

But whether Chinese companies build something worth owning, or nothing but garbage, is still a question of the spec they either build to, or work from.
If the company that plans on marketing the product plans to sell based on price only, they look for cheap, in the extreme.
If they want return buyers for a product line that is intended to still be there in 5 or 10 years, they build looking toward a higher end product.
WEN has been around since 1951. The company is not , by design, a flash in the pan.