Sick Of Buying Chinese Junk!

[needausername]

If you buy clothes you better try on every shirt and pair of pants. They are not held to any standard.

Yep. I Stopped ordering clothes online and when I go to a store the first stop is for a tape measure to measure the waist of pants, length of sleeves, etc. All the while I figure if I can't buy American, I can buy Continental, then Hemispherical, etc., trying to stay away from Chinese goods. Both Northern Tool and Harbor Freight are boycotted for tools and I'll order direct from US companies.

That being said, I know I'm blessed to have the choice to make. Many do not.

[trebor44]

Having worked in a wide variety of production and service sectors and having listened to the rants about products that are from the lowest labor cost countries I find this almost laughable if it were not so sad. Products are about profits not quality, some folks balk at high quality products at low cost. There is plenty of junk with the "Made in America" stamp. Remember the comments about beer cans welded inside the doors of USA made vehicles? It is up to the buyer to beware of their purchases, avoid the junk if you can. BUT sometimes it is the only game in town. Many top brands are made in China because of their lower labor costs, but they to are losing out to even lower cost labor markets and this is the never ending cycle of finding the cheapest labor and materials that will pass QC. If a product fails QC the solution is quite often to lower the standards to avoid a loss.

[mrrch]

A lot of production moved due to corporate greed.
Build it as cheap as possible to maximize profit.

[jcwit]

Guy's take a look at where the laptop/computer is made!

[shooter2]

I am not sure it is a socialist plot, or a plot of any kind. However, I too think there is a huge advantage to having mom at home.

JMHO, but there are two factors that contribute to the issue. First, our government spends far too much and our total tax rates are at the point where it often takes two incomes to live. Second, the tendency for millenials is for two or more cars and a big house. Is short, they spend too much.

Damned near everything is taxed. For example, 40% of our water bill is tax. I am nearly 80 years old and still pay taxes.

Term limits might be a good start. No retirement income after your 12 Years are up.

As a last resort we might have to follow Thomas Jefferson who said "from time to time our government must be refreshed with a revolution". At my age the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. The younger generation has there hand out and no sense of patriotism whatsoever.

and there is so much more...

[turtlezx]

NFTA has ruined this country and it wont be regained

[Four-Sixty]

China is a huge polluter. I heard a claim that the amount of damage they've done to their environment outpaces the wealth they've created.

Why don't enviornmentalists boycott China for all the polluting they do?

[walltube]

Canada!
Canada manufactures 1st. rate automobile replacement parts for American automobiles. Canada also manufactures, and supplies, OEM parts for newly assembled American automobiles. I've bought new, Canadian manufactured engine replacement parts for my 2001 Chev 350 c.i. powered van. Most recently, the belt tensioning pulley assembly(made in Canada) via the web at a lesser price than new-car dealer cost. A few more $$$ compared to 'off-shore', but so what?! It's North American made stuff. Merely ask and\or demand Canadian made parts if'n USA made parts are not available.

Canada has been our best, most reliable trading partner for many years. And, our only genuine friend and ally on a shared continent. Canukian Beer t'warnt too shabby either..

Ya'll be nice to one another,

Wt.

[Yodogsandman]

Toyota is the only American manufactured parts vehicles made and assembled in the USA now. All other car manufacturing parts are made some place else and assembled here.

BTW, my dog developed a soccer ball sized tumor on the rear leg and had to be put down from eating chinese dog food sold at wallymart.

[bdicki]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-chin...sis-1466618934

[leadman]

I just bought a new Norcold RV refrigerator that runs on propane or 110v for our motorhome. Big "Made In USA" sticker inside the door. I made some modifications to the controls so had the circuit boards out. Guess what, made in China on them.
I don't believe that the low quality of Chinese products is new. I remember name in the old movies for the small Chinese sailing ships. JUNK.
The distributor of the axle parts expressed his sympathy for my situation, but that is all. The manager I know at O'Reilly's won't be back at the store until Thursday. I did get a full refund on the cost of the parts but I am going to push for my labor and extra gear oil I used.

And a little off this subject, but why has the price of engine and other oils dropped along with the price of gas? A quart of gear oil is almost $8 now and most engine oils running from $2.50 to $5.00.

I'm heading to northern Az to spent some time in the woods looking for elk.

[starmac]

You can blame it on politics or dorporate greed or anything else for that matter. None of them sold us down the river, the American public that demands cheaper goods have, plain and simple, the manufacturers do not have a lot of choice, unless they are only after the extreme high end clientele.

Several years I was in a truck, trailer parts suppliers business and wanted some chain hooks, by federal law the ones I use have to be grade stamped, and I can't use cheap ones. They laid some chinese ones on the counter, this is in a place I did thousands of dollars of business with on a regular basis, and they know I would prefer american products. I ask my friend if he didn't have some Amreican made ones. He replied that he did, but I wouldn't want them, so I told him he was dead wrong and to bring them out.
He brought them out and laid them out, PURE junk made to compete with the chinese market, I left with the chinese ones anyway.

[dtknowles]

I........And a little off this subject, but why has the price of engine and other oils dropped along with the price of gas? A quart of gear oil is almost $8 now and most engine oils running from $2.50 to $5.00.

I'm heading to northern Az to spent some time in the woods looking for elk.

The cost of the Oil in a quart of oil is 25 cents at todays prices if oil was $100 a barrel it would be 50 or 60 cents you are not really paying for the oil you are paying for the refining, marketing, additives, profit and other business costs.

Tim

[jcwit]

Chinese junk, take a look where a Nikon camera is made.

I do not consider them junk!

[mold maker]

I just had the third master cylinder installed within 30 days.
Yep Made in China. The extra labor involved cost way more than the part, but that's all there is available.

[Reverend Al]

Up here in Victoria they are rebuilding a main bridge that spans our inner harbour, the "Johnson Street Bridge". The project has been delayed because the order of steel that was ordered (from China of course) to rebuild the bridge didn't pass testing for strength! (Good thing they tested it first ...) Now they are waiting for a replacement order of steel that hopefully will be up to code, but the project is now WAY behind schedule ...



http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle30497337/

[longranger]

I have a good friend who is an engineer for Whirlpool, "The Chinese will build/make anything you want as well as you want it made for the right price". Companies moved off shore more for,less Gov. regulations,Unsustainable Union contracts,tariffs on required materials/ingredients, we have 17,000 tariffs on imported goods,let that sink in.
No one ever started a business thinking "I want to make money for everyone but myself ".

[osteodoc08]

Napas slogan should be "Napa or nothing" and promote US parts.

Sad thing is, most probably don't care.

[jonp]

I just had to do a wheel bearing hub in my CRV. I checked all the parts stores for a USA or Japanese bearing. No luck, the only one I could find was made in China. Most people are only getting 20K miles out of these Chinese bearings. Junk!

Replaced the suspension and steering on mine. CV joints and shafts, inner/outer tie rods, upper and lower ball joints etc..I went to 3 different parts stores and all were made in china so I came home and ordered the stuff online from am auto I think it was, for half the price. I figured if it was made in china I might as well save some money. All the parts fit fine and seem ok to me but I'm not a professional and I can't say how long they will last.

American consumers demand cheaper goods so are getting them. If you want to pay more then you can if you hunt around. The days of 100% made in America for everything are over which is why Trump claiming to bring the jobs back is a farce.

[PB234]

Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOWrqR_QFfg

Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_lfxPI5ObM

See a lot of manufacturing jobs.