Time to reduce Chinese product purchasing, folks

[crunky]

So I guess we can't say Changquish anymore ?

[Thorsteenster]

Do away with conglomerates, fawk the big guys, keep it all small guys.
I found this list Google'ing, pretty awesome...
https://afiavillage.com/rc-cars-made-in-usa/

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by Thorsteenster

Do away with conglomerates, fawk the big guys, keep it all small guys.
I found this list Google'ing, pretty awesome...
https://afiavillage.com/rc-cars-made-in-usa/

Are you kidding? Did you actually look at that list? It's one of those "review websites" that just posts Amazon links often to garbage products.

[wings_of_fire]

Originally Posted by Rotare

Id agree, it's ultimately the consumers driving the cheaper prices, not necessarily the 'greedy bosses'.

I work in consulting engineering, in both commercial and residential construction. We're continually squeezed on prices from our builder clients. To win a tender you literally have to go in with a break even figure. There's virtually no margins left. Our fees and hourly rates are cheaper now, then they were 20 years ago.

To compete and stay in business many of my competitors now off-shore engineering design and drafting work to Vietnam, China and now India. We've resisted doing this and prefer to keep as many locally employed people as possible, however the work is won on price.... not on goodwill from supporting our local community.

Recently I spoke to a couple of my builder clients, and literally pleaded with them to be reasonable on their expectation of pricing - the continual pressure of wanting more for less is driving everyone in our industry out of business.

They tell me it's not their intention to squeeze us so hard on price - but they have no choice. The end users, the home owners, are the ones forcing the pressure on price. A few years ago when someone was building a home they'd physically visit 2 or 3 builders, build a relationship, and decide on one. Now people just send an email to 50 builders, and pick the cheapest one.

No-one cares about quality, until there's problems later, no-one cares about where the construction materials come from, no-one cares who does the work...... so long as its as cheap as possible.

Unfortunately we're all guilty of this in some way, shape or form.

Capitalism and its effects. Having a higher valued currency is not always beneficial.

All these problems would disappear if 'One World, One Currency'. But that is not going to happen because greed is embedded deep inside the human genome.

[ferp420]

Originally Posted by wings_of_fire

All these problems would disappear if 'One World, One Currency'. But that is not going to happen because greed is embedded deep inside the human genome.

that is such a bad idea in so many ways it would cause so many problems that would result in a world war this idea is so bad they warned against it in the bible



what surprises me is that they thought about it thousands of years ago and still thought it was a bad idea to the point it was writen about

[Thorsteenster]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

Are you kidding? Did you actually look at that list? It's one of those "review websites" that just posts Amazon links often to garbage products.

So you're saying RC cars made in the USA are garbage.
Awesome, can't wait to see you on the trail rocking my proudly bought KOOWHEEL Remote Control Car 360 Rotating 4WD Off Road Double Sided Rotating Tumbling rock racer!


And yes, I was kidding...

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by Thorsteenster

So you're saying RC cars made in the USA are garbage.
Awesome, can't wait to see you on the trail rocking my proudly bought KOOWHEEL Remote Control Car 360 Rotating 4WD Off Road Double Sided Rotating Tumbling rock racer!


And yes, I was kidding...

OK I feel better now. I thought you did a quick Google search and then threw up a link here without actually clicking it - like some people would do.

[Thorsteenster]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

OK I feel better now. I thought you did a quick Google search and then threw up a link here without actually clicking it - like some people would do.

Nope, in addition to actually searching for things, I also view content of results.

But I did think I had something until I clicked the link...