Quote Originally Posted by imdying View Post
China is quite capable of producing good quality goods, they just build things to a price. Thing is, everyone specs things out on price, not quality. Just because it's made in China doesn't always make it crap.
Unfortunately... I agree they are able to produce good quality goods, however they don't.

Example; My work imports pens from China and you maybe thinking not alot can go wrong with pens and pens are are cheap anyway... well you are right to a certian degree. Instead of puting the price up and keep the quality up. (after we had finally got the quality to something we could sell in the local market.) What the did was change the mold, and use cheaper plastic and less of it, lowing the quality and in many cases making the product useless... we had a whole shipment like this (200,000 pens) it was just poor quality control

But they are only pens I here you say... that they are, and we sell them to you cheap pens. However not just your cheap platsic ones, but the more expensive metal pens they you as the end user could end up pay $10 to $20 per pen. (sad thing is I know how much the actually cost ) If you pay that much for a pen you expect it to work and be of a reasonable quality.

Heck I saw on trade me some plastic pens that we printed and they were asking $6.50c each for a plastic pen when we only sold it to them for $0.65c (and thats with a 2 colour print) its not worth that, and we class it as a cheap throw away pen...

my point, if you buy cheap you get cheap... real cheap, but just because you pay more, you may still get cheap... check, and research before you buy..

Chiness..
  • Lead paint on toys
  • Anti freeze toothpaste yummy
  • chemicals in clothing
  • poor quality engineering (them pocket chopers etc)
  • cheap warehouse junk...
  • lord knows what else...