steve_cronin
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We are told that the world has changed and our role as a manufacturing nation has changed because companies can source goods cheaper from China where "production costs are lower" and we must get used to our role of being suppliers of High Tech items and sophisticated services.
Does anyone here own anything more than 2 years old that was made in China?
My dinghy cover supplied by Marine Superstore lasted five weeks before in disintegrated and blew away. Of the two Random Orbital Polishers i took out to Corfu last month, neither is working. The first burned out after less than two minutes use. The second after two days refused to switch off once the trigger was released. Yes. you've guessed it - Made in China! My son rang last night to say that the trainers which he'd bought against parental advice had only lasted two months before the soles started coming away from the uppers!
Now I don't mind supporting an emergent nation but I refuse to see our manufacturing base destroyed by people making crap.
They are very cunning these people. What they make LOOKS exactly like the "real" thing which obviously fools the buyers of companies like our chandleries and Tesco but sadly, we the users end up with rubbish that just outlasts the warranty.
My boat cover looked like those once sold by Plastimo & another Scandinavian manufacturer who's name I've forgotten but it was made of a totally inadequate spec fabric which wasn't UV stable.
The first polisher brandeed "Sealey" had brush holders made of soft cheap plastic which just simply weren't up to the job - the supplier told me that he had received many back. the second polisher's trigger spring had lost it's temper. Someone on here a few days ago told of a Dyson cleaner that packed up prematurely and that too was of "re-located" manufacture to China.
How safe would you feel in a lifejacket "Made in China" when floating in the English Channel one dark cold night?
I always try to buy quality on the theory that I'm really only spending the difference between the best and the "standard model" but since all this imported junk from China has closed down the quality manufacturers it's nearly impossible to get anything of quality anymore - the factory closed down long ago.
I thought that we are living in a new age of reducing waste & rubbish. Surely then goods should last at least as long as they did when manufactured here. How can we pass on the role of "World's consumer goods manufacturer" to China when all they know how to make is sham goods?
Steve Cronin
Does anyone here own anything more than 2 years old that was made in China?
My dinghy cover supplied by Marine Superstore lasted five weeks before in disintegrated and blew away. Of the two Random Orbital Polishers i took out to Corfu last month, neither is working. The first burned out after less than two minutes use. The second after two days refused to switch off once the trigger was released. Yes. you've guessed it - Made in China! My son rang last night to say that the trainers which he'd bought against parental advice had only lasted two months before the soles started coming away from the uppers!
Now I don't mind supporting an emergent nation but I refuse to see our manufacturing base destroyed by people making crap.
They are very cunning these people. What they make LOOKS exactly like the "real" thing which obviously fools the buyers of companies like our chandleries and Tesco but sadly, we the users end up with rubbish that just outlasts the warranty.
My boat cover looked like those once sold by Plastimo & another Scandinavian manufacturer who's name I've forgotten but it was made of a totally inadequate spec fabric which wasn't UV stable.
The first polisher brandeed "Sealey" had brush holders made of soft cheap plastic which just simply weren't up to the job - the supplier told me that he had received many back. the second polisher's trigger spring had lost it's temper. Someone on here a few days ago told of a Dyson cleaner that packed up prematurely and that too was of "re-located" manufacture to China.
How safe would you feel in a lifejacket "Made in China" when floating in the English Channel one dark cold night?
I always try to buy quality on the theory that I'm really only spending the difference between the best and the "standard model" but since all this imported junk from China has closed down the quality manufacturers it's nearly impossible to get anything of quality anymore - the factory closed down long ago.
I thought that we are living in a new age of reducing waste & rubbish. Surely then goods should last at least as long as they did when manufactured here. How can we pass on the role of "World's consumer goods manufacturer" to China when all they know how to make is sham goods?
Steve Cronin
