Thread: The Chinese experience

Originally Posted by cba_melbourne

The chinese factories are very good at making exactly what you pay for. The problem are the dealers, that often mark up low price crap quality and make it look like the good expensive stuff. It is very difficult to tell the difference if you cannot see and hold the items. These practices ruin the reputation of everything Chinese. Then again, I remember back in the 60's everything Japanese had the reputation of inferior crap... and just 20 years later suddenly everything Japanese was premium quality. Chris

I'm sure there are dealers who do purposely buy low to sell high, but problem is mainly cultural as I see it, cut-throat capitalism/materialism, I imagine it won't mirror the Japanese miracle - in time frame at least.

Just received a container load the other day from there - non machining related. Some of the litany of woes, bad welds....cracking straight up, thin powder coating over weld spatter, defective galvanising....so poor it rusted in the container.....loading uncovered in the rain probably didn't help! Funny thing is quality has been on a downward spiral over several years from this company as they think the dumb foreigners won't notice the deception....and I won't go into the attempted transfer frauds....."repco".