What what WHAT????!!!

[JERRY2KONE]

Guys your missing the real point here. This is probably just like the whole RCM slipperential deal. One company more than likely designed and produced their unit from scratch and some Chinese copycat bought one and duplicated it, selling it for a fraction of the price. This is exactly how China became such a rich country, by ripping off American designs. Our politicians have allowed this to go on with their open trade policies putting money into their pockets as well. BUT with our economy now in the toilet which are we more likely to purchase???

Originally Posted by JERRY2KONE

Guys your missing the real point here. This is probably just like the whole RCM slipperential deal. One company more than likely designed and produced their unit from scratch and some Chinese copycat bought one and duplicated it, selling it for a fraction of the price. This is exactly how China became such a rich country, by ripping off American designs. Our politicians have allowed this to go on with their open trade policies putting money into their pockets as well. BUT with our economy now in th etoilet which are we more likely to purchase???

Says the man ironically living in Asia

[JERRY2KONE]

Originally Posted by Freezebyte

Says the man ironically living in Asia

Funny you say that. We do not even shop outside the military base. Allot of people purchase the latest DVD movies on the Korean market place for $3 to $4 a piece ripping off the American movie industry. We have a DVD collection of about 800 and everyone of them are original USA DVD's purchased on the US market. We do everything we can to support our country even if that means passing up on what look like good deals or exact copies of US products. The major problem there is no matter where you purchase from Macy's, Sac's, Sears, or any other American company if you look close enough you will find things that are made in China, Taiwon, Korea, or Maylasia. If we see products that appeal to us we always check for where it is made, and if it isn't made in the USA it goes back on the shelf.

Video comparison of innards of clones

[reno911]

Originally Posted by JERRY2KONE

Funny you say that. We do not even shop outside the military base. Allot of people purchase the latest DVD movies on the Korean market place for $3 to $4 a piece ripping off the American movie industry. We have a DVD collection of about 800 and everyone of them are original USA DVD's purchased on the US market. We do everything we can to support our country even if that means passing up on what look like good deals or exact copies of US products. The major problem there is no matter where you purchase from Macy's, Sac's, Sears, or any other American company if you look close enough you will find things that are made in China, Taiwon, Korea, or Maylasia. If we see products that appeal to us we always check for where it is made, and if it isn't made in the USA it goes back on the shelf.

I wish i could do the same. However, everything seems to be made where the labor is cheap. You would think with today's American economy that would mean labor is cheap in the States, but it is not. Even at minimum wage a shirt made in the US costs more to produce than in another country. As for the outsourcing.

As for the chargers go, I am sure that 90 percent or more of them are all made in the East. So for one Eastern company to copy and sell a product cheaper than another Eastern manufacturer I couldn't really care, unless that design was designed and produced in America first. If the company designs a product and decides to take advantage of the cheap labor in another country I fell they should not be surprised if their design gets duplicated. However if, like Mike, a product that is designed, produced, and sold in America gets replicated by a company outsourcing it's labor to the Eastern world, that is in my eyes a legal conflict and I would be pissed.

The only high paying part of any manufacturing process these days is in the designing stage. Just for an example, Apple. 100% of it's products are designed in the US, and these jobs are of the highest paying in the Silicon valley. However those designs get shipped off to an outsourced manufacture to complete the finished product.

My question for you is, how is the moral of an Eastern manufacture employee? Seeing as you live amidst them. How do they live and work? Miserable? On strike? If you answer no, than you have answered the very reason we outsource everything. They know we are dependent on them, and frankly they are more grateful for the labor than we were. Nowadays it makes me wonder if we did have this labor return to America, whether or not we would be grateful for it, and the American populist would be okay with the higher price of goods made in America.