Comments on: Made In China = Bad?

By: Rahul

Rahul — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:45:40 +0000

guys, china dosent care what the intellectuals have to say about their goods, if they sell they are good and if they dont they are bad, simple as that.
from my past experience let me tell you the same product if made in the US, Malaysia, Korea lasts longer than in china

and as a policy now i dont buy stuff made in china , but many a times i dont have a choice….

its sad but lets pay a few bucks extra and send the chinese products back where they came from

By: Spies Inside Your Computer « Shay 2.0

Spies Inside Your Computer « Shay 2.0 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:43:40 +0000

[...] was just convicted this week – these things are happening. Combine that with the fact that some of the most popular machines on the market today are all made in China, and you can see how this could [...]

By: elcidi

elcidi — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:51:58 +0000

Mayra,
the price for the Macbook Air is the same whether it is made in China or else where. I would think that most of the Macbook are made in China nowadays.

So, the bargain is a scam I think. Please be careful, maybe the site is just trying to abuse you to get your credit card account, etc. Or maybe they sell second handed or refurbished one. As Far As I know, There are no Macbook Air for like $500.

By: Mayra

Mayra — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:21:10 +0000

I went into a website called my electronics or something like that. I found a macbook air for like $500USD, I want to know why? and is it safe to buy it from there?

Also, they have a online chat technician and the person told me that the price is so low because the product was made in China. I kept asking questions like, does it have warranty? Will the language would be english? and all that…

What do you all think??

By: patkilby

patkilby — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:03:39 +0000

When it comes to manufacturing, countries like China make inferior products. To be able to produce electronics cheaply they skimp on skilled labor, quality control processes, and fault tolerances. Most US manfacturing facilites operate within a 1/64″, while many Chinese parts loosely hold to 1/4″. If we knew more about the actual cost it took produce an inferior product just to save a couple hundred bucks would we feel less inclined to buy this garbage. We can’t afford to be ignorant when it comes to the human and enviromental cost.

By: DougSter

DougSter — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:05:20 +0000

Unfortunately, some brands end up with a bad rep based on only one marginal product. For example, we in the electronics repair trade often referred to Magnavox products as “Maggot Box” POSs, but many of their products were real tanks. My HVAC tech calls my Janitrol heatpump air/heat system a “Junkitrol”, but it’s worked perfectly for ten years.

Let’s be careful about painting with the broad brush. I just retired a FoxConn motherboard that I simply thrashed in a testbed system and it always worked without a hiccup. Age just caught up with it (P4, AGP, etc.) as it will eventually catch up with me.

By: Saverio

Saverio — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:38:26 +0000

An excellent article. I totally agree: What counts is who designs and commissions the product, not who actually makes it. This is a very good example on how American corporations externalize their production cost, which obviously include waste, and in my opinion it’s criminal (by the way, thanks for the YouTube link). The link below gives a rather clear picture about the story of consumer products.
http://www.storyofstuff.com/

By: Greg Zeng

Greg Zeng — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:10:27 +0000

All communists lack legal justice, human rights, and theft of non-communists (Nth Korea, China, etc. The legal things they do are the tip of the iceberg. My in-laws in China buy local products far inferior, very unsafe, than the few items that reach export quality.

Ebay that I bought from Hong Kong retailers (made in Hong Kong) were cheap, fragile and easily broke. Famous brand-names that are sold on Hong Kong streets are generally forgeries, made in China.

“Made in Taiwan”, Malaysia or Singapore are almost as good as the Japanese, made in Japan. When communist disappears there, perhaps they’ll emulate the USSR. On the secondary industries that used to be in the first world (UK, USA, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, EUROPE, etc) … the planet is moving into more refined industries eg Australia & Japanese ownership of USA’s mass media industries.

India’s engineering efforts recognize this. The Chinese in Communist China are so corrupt and dumb, that they still kill the educated people (eg my grandfather & father-in-law). Her After 180 years living in Australia, they still have their very extensive secret police network spying on myself amd my families.

By: Harsh Joshi

Harsh Joshi — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:14:11 +0000

Well, i somewhat seem to agree to what you say here. In India, there HAD BEEN a sudden flow of CHINESE manufactured electronics about 8-10 years ago. CD-Players, Fans, Toys, Torches………name it and you have it.
These goods are still available in a huge amount in the local markets…. with some INDEX FINGER SIZED Torch-cum-Cigarette Lighter. Thats what these chinese goods are referred to as. And the cost, 10 INdian Rupees [About 2/9 of US$ as 1 $ = 45 INR]
But what this abundance of goods has done is any and everything produced LOCALLY and CHEAPLY is sold off as CHINESE, even if it has been manufactured just in the workshop next street. Chinese goods, even if good, get a bad name due to these FORGED items.
Bottom Line, A Bad product might be made in China…..but every Product manufactured there need not be BAD.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:44:17 +0000

Amen Dan !

It’s about time someone spoke up for the good old US of A ! I had to read through almost all of Dave’s “replies” about how it’s “quality of product” and not “where it’s made” that counts before I found someone willing to tell it like it is….

Maybe we should ask all those unfortunate people who have lost their jobs because their company no longer has any moral values and are “outsourceing” their products to China how THEY feel about “quality” and “where it’s made” !

Todays corporations don’t outsource to China to benefit the consumer. They do it to line their fat pockets. America suffers as a result. Even Wal-mart puts the screws to the American public. They price their products from China just marginally below the competition and the rest of the “savings” go into the corporate coffers.

By the time American’s wake up, it will probably be too late. China is doing more than “eating our lunch”. They are (sooner than you think) going to own this country.

I agree that it is becoming more and more difficult to “buy American” but we all need to re-invest in our own country before it’s too late………..