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The other issue is American quality has gone down the tank. 10-15 years ago I’d look for American quality over Chinese, but nowadays I prefer the Chinese manufa
by nyjah 2y ago
The other issue is American quality has gone down the tank. 10-15 years ago I’d look for American quality over Chinese, but nowadays I prefer the Chinese manufacturer almost 100% of the time. Not always the case but anecdotally chinas quality has gotten better while American stuff has gotten worse.
- queuebert 2y agoWe must buy different things.
- TylerE 2y agoI will absolutely concur with American products getting far worse. Everything is cost cut to the bone.
- doubled112 2y agoWith few exceptions. In general, if I’m going to buy something that’s going to last 2 uses, I might as well just buy the cheapest one.
- Workaccount2 2y agoIt's not so much that it is cost cut to the bone, but that the expertise is being lost. I can tell you with a straight face that american manufacturing is being held up right now by grey beards pushing back retirement because young people have zero interest in manufacturing boiler conduit fittings. You can crash course an IT cert and come out making more money than you would ever make pressing steel couplers.
- TylerE 2y agoNo, a lot of it really is just obvious cost cutting. Things like replacing metal fasteners with plastic ones that break or strip easily.
- wenc 2y agoYes. People associate Chinese manufacturing with low quality products, but I feel those people misunderstand systems. It's not Chinese manufacturing that is low quality. It's really the sites like Temu and Shein that create low quality products -- because of their aggressive pricing, they create a cascade of systemic cost pressures on manufacturers, who have to cut corners. AMZN on the other hand probably provides more headroom and reduces cost pressure on manufacturers. If you know how to shop on Amazon (avoiding 3P sellers, and only getting 4 star and above products), you generally get high quality products. I've only rarely gotten anything bad from Amazon (from Chinese manufacturers). I've bought Chinese products like Anker batteries, Thermopro thermocouples/sensors, Jigoo (weird name I know) dust mite vacuum, Tapo camera, Levoit humidifier, Cosori air fryer, and little clever tools like toothpaste tube squeezers and the like. They've all exceeded expectations. (I recently bought a Insta360 Flow Pro 2 gimbal, also a Chinese product, and it's amazing).
- fragmede 2y agoChina makes quality things, they just keep it for themselves, and ship their crap to us.
- eru 2y agoIf you are willing to pay (and know where to look), you can get good quality from China just fine. Most iPhones come from China after all.
- vaccineai 2y agoThat's hilarious. The most popular grocery stores in Shanghai right now are Costco and Sams, with lines everyday out the door, not Chinese grocery stores. Chinese citizens don't want to buy cancerous food products for example.
- HPsquared 2y agoComparative advantage in action!
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