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Re: [Spridgets] CHINA CRAP?

To: "'Brad Fornal'" <tequila.brad@gmail.com>, "'Steven Guterman'"
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] CHINA CRAP?
From: "Bob Gardner" <rdgard@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:33:37 -0800
Brad,

 

You are right, but that is not China's fault! 

 

b

 

Robert D. Gardner



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From: Brad Fornal [mailto:tequila.brad@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 3:26 PM
To: Steven Guterman
Cc: Bob Gardner; spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] CHINA CRAP?

 

Not gonna happen, the UAW will not allow it.

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Steven Guterman <an5.sprite@gmail.com>
wrote:

Bob,

 Watch out American car manufacturers  unless they learn how to make a
quality product at a
competitive price.

Steve


On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Bob Gardner <rdgard@cox.net> wrote:

> "So what does that say about the crap from china?
> USA beats the hell out of ANYTHING from china."
>
> I only sort of agree with you.  HF carries mostly very cheap stuff, mostly
> from China.  Most of it works great, one or two times and if you want
> something that will service you well for a life time, spend the right
> amount
> and buy quality stuff.  OTOH, some of my tools I only use once or twice a
> year.
>
> IMHO, the reason the China stuff is crap is not that China can't make
> quality stuff, it is because the American companies that go to China with
> the specifications that they want in a tool to buy insist on making them
to
> a "very low Price Point" so they can sell them here and make a profit.
>  Here
> or there, pot metal is less expensive than carbon steel.
>
> I only have been to Hong Kong, but there, everything worked great, the
> quality of the goods I shopped for was great and not what I would call
> cheap.  Given, I didn't shop any tools but the "quality of life" I saw in
> the hotels, the public transport, the clean city streets, everything I
came
> in contact with was better than the same thing in New York, for example.
>
> Check out the slide show someone sent me to see that the Chinese can
indeed
> do "state of the art" work.  The bridges are beautiful.  (OOPS, I don't
> know
> if I can send an attachment.  Maybe someone else knows how to find a link
> to
> this.)
>
> Just my two yen worth!
>
> Cheers,
>
> bob
>
> Robert D. Gardner
>
> Gardner Productions LLC
> Film and Video Production since 1978
> 619-460-1000
> www.gardnerproductions.com
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