Poor quality chinese imports, still a worry with every thing thats landing her

Here.

Don't complain.........just don't buy it. They'll stop sending it then ;-)
Cheers Craig..............

You are such a hard person to satisfy.........LOL

You have to laugh about it don't you.

One of the company's we own is a manufacture and about 3 years ago another company started brining in cheap versions of our products.

3 years ago there was 2 other company's in Australia manufacturing products in our market and guess what now there is only us left, Lucky for us the manufacturing side only accounted for about 20% of our total company's activities but out of that 20% we have lost 75% of that products market share.

Approached a lot of the retailer who distributed our product and most said the same "your product is far superior to the Chinese one but it's three times the price and people would sooner buy the cheaper one".

We did surveys about our products and found the end user would pay more for a better product...this is different to what the retailers told us at the start.

When we approached the retailers with these facts most changed there story to "Oh yeah but the place down the road sells the chinees ones and we have to compete with them".

The stupid thing was they had no problem clearing our products and they made more $$$$ profits from it but they still thought it was better to compete with there opposition with cheap products then to up sell the customer to a better product.

To many people think if they can save money buy buying a cheaper product of lesser quality and saving then selves money they are happy.

There are a lot of ways Chinese manufactures save money and it's not labour alone.

Cable ties are a good example, the price of nylon used in making cable ties increased three fold over night so instead of the manufactures and the wholesalers putting up there prices...they went to cheaper nylon and now 50% of the cable ties we use we send back because the brake.

We are now using cable ties three times the price of the others.

Long live quality product and the Australia standard of living.....because soon both will be gone for good.



Regards Richard

Yeah well what you say might have some truth to it. Don't forget though that it wasn't all that many years back when we frowned at Made in Japan, then it was Malaysia, then Taiwan, now China. Don't get yourself into a sweat over it, only a matter of time before made in China will probably be the one we all clamour to get. Funny mob aren't we !!!

Don't buy Jap bleep , Ozzie made is also bad..! Don't buy European and certainly not Chinese..

Ummm, After all that, you can buy whatever you want..

What really p1sses me off that we have no choice. Try to get for example cordless drill made not in China. Extremely difficult. AFAIK only most models from Bosh and some from DeWalt. And some Bosh model (made in Switzerland!!!) actually cheaper (!!!!) then equivalent from other manufactures made in China. Obviously it is much cheaper to produce in China, but manufactures do not passing saving to as, thus we ending with getting cheap cr@p from China and sometimes paying more money then proper stuff made somewhere else. And “buy brand, not country of origin” philosophy does not work – I have numerous first hand examples when even exactly the same models differ dramatically when “made in China” versus “made somewhere else”. I personally not buying anything China-made if I can source something else.
Cheers