WONDERFUL! Aluminum Chinese Wire

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
"look for a company selling a better product (it could even have been made in the same factory, but to a higher quality specification)"


Lesee, three thousand for airfare. Say a grand or so for hotels, six seven hundred dollars for chop suey, rice and fish, a few hundred for taxis, and don't forget to tip the interpreter...

Totally blind are purchases. Total mysteries, are parts purchased until packages are opened and items tested.
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Can't say I've ever visited the factory where the item I was intending to buy was made, along with the competitors' factories, before making the purchasing decision. Yet, the purchases have rarely been blind.

There are ways to figure out what's good and what's not that don't involve personally visiting the factory (where I wouldn't know what to look for anyway):

- Product reviews on Amazon, and elsewhere. (Amazon has inexpensive LED lights that work in trailers, some with very good reviews, some less so.)
- For some things, Consumer Reports. (Not LED lights for trailers though. :) )
- For other things, there are other places where people leave reviews. Googling specific models numbers will often turn something up. If it doesn't, then I either don't buy, or buy knowing that if I get junk it's because I was being overly cheap - shame on me.

If the price is significantly lower than most competitors, it's a fair bet corners were cut somewhere. (For LED lights it's usually the color - warm white is more expensive per lumen than cool white (bluish). The wire is a new one though.)