On 19 Apr, 16:15, Kent Paul Dolan <xanth...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> You just love to be a bigot, don't you Ken?
Yes, but I write as I find. Where you used to find goods of decent
quality in the shops here, now much of it is made in China, and of
poor quality. Join the dots and draw your own conclusion.
> Realize then from that history that poor quality is
> _not_ a producer-nationality-based product feature
> cast in stone, but is instead a market-driven result
> of the willingness of vapid-brained lazy consumers
> to waste money to purchase dreck quality rather than
> first consulting Consumer Re****ts or similar review
> media that help consumers distinguish the crapola
> products from the worthwhile ones.
Wrong. The consumer has no choice. All the products of cerain types
(like bathroom ware) on offer are made in China, or other third world
countries with no experience of manufacturing (like wooden furniture
from Venezuela.) The problem is not consumers (end users) looking for
cheap dreck. It is purchasing -- sorry, logistics -- managers buying
cheap dreck in China and passing it off to consumers as quality goods,
and at an enormous profit. And the problem is Chinese slave-owners
offering to manufacture cheaply any good, whether they know anything
about it or not. Don't blame the end users. We want goods that will
remain fit for their purpose for a reasonable period -- indeed, we're
entitled to exactly that by law -- and we want them to be made in
Britain.
Or Germany, of course.
Ken Johnson
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