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Old 01-05-2021, 07:29 PM
CubbyRI CubbyRI is offline
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On the topic of china quality, they CAN produce pretty good (consumer grade) quality. They are often contracted by new owners of formerly superior quality brand names to make essentially, barely functional crap badged to have consumers think they are really getting what that name USED to stand for.

Often, the Chinese are the last to be blamed for this area. It is the American "business leaders" looking for short term profits, and the American consumers themselves who never bothered to learn about real quality and "built to last". In fact the consumers are most to blame because if they didnt buy crap, no one would make it. If these apparent snafu's with this item resulted in a dead product and maybe a dead name brand, no one not even selfish young business hotshot types would dare to put green bananas out.

Not much we can do about this sad decline, except preserve some the examples of when a brand name actually meant something!
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