Originally posted by uchase/webpry wrong, buy from whoever delivers the best for your money or you will not survive the competition. think patriotic and you'll go down in style.
Originally posted by xclusive I say support the quality of a product and if the US is lacking they should improve and then they will win...
The quality is not the issue, it's these overseas developers who charge rediculously low prices and devalue the entire marketplace. Just like if someone buys a plot of land on your upperscale block and decides to put in a nice trailer to live in.
"I buy American and when American breaks I buy American again"
- Drew Carey
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Hm... you know, I think that aside from my office chair (which is, admittedly, a very nice leather and chrome affair that makes sweet, sweet love to my asscheeks whenever I sit on it) I don't have any US products here... or at least, none that I can easily identify.
My laptop is a toshiba, my cel phone is a samsung, my landline phone system is northern telecom, my Sony TV and I drive a Toyota.
Oh! I have an Xbox! That, at least, was ASSEMBLED in north america... I think...
Can you even buy American-made products at Wal-Mart?
What will the people do in those small 'all-american' towns that John Cougar Mellencamp sings about? ... where Wal-Mart has destroyed all the competition and is now the only place left to shop?
Originally posted by uchase/webpry wrong, buy from whoever delivers the best for your money or you will not survive the competition. think patriotic and you'll go down in style.
Actually a lot of people don't mind paying more for local economy
Originally posted by rayadp05
I rebooted, deleted temp files, history, cookies and everything...still cannot view the news clip. All I see is that fucking gay ass music video from "Rick Roll". Anyone else have a different link to the news clip?
Pay for the cheapest labor, then you get...
the cheapest results. If that's what you are looking for, then it's a good deal.
Pay for the medium labor cost, then you get...
the medium results. If that's what you are looking for, then it's a good deal.
Pay a premium, then you get...
premium results. If that's what you are looking for, then it's a good deal.
People charge for the results that they expext to have delivered. People pay for the results that they expect. Anyone offering premium delivery/product/support at an el-cheapo price is lying to you. Anyone offering premium delivery/product/support at a premium price and doesn't deliver premium results has lied to you.
Find someone you believe you can trust, set a price point, and expect delivery of the product according to that price point. You pay cheap, you better expect to get cheap results. You pay premium, you better expect to get premium results.
Originally posted by Baal You Get What You Pay For. Business 101.
Pay for the cheapest labor, then you get...
the cheapest results. If that's what you are looking for, then it's a good deal.
Pay for the medium labor cost, then you get...
the medium results. If that's what you are looking for, then it's a good deal.
Pay a premium, then you get...
premium results. If that's what you are looking for, then it's a good deal.
People charge for the results that they expext to have delivered. People pay for the results that they expect. Anyone offering premium delivery/product/support at an el-cheapo price is lying to you. Anyone offering premium delivery/product/support at a premium price and doesn't deliver premium results has lied to you.
Find someone you believe you can trust, set a price point, and expect delivery of the product according to that price point. You pay cheap, you better expect to get cheap results. You pay premium, you better expect to get premium results.
Originally posted by rickholio My laptop is a toshiba, my cel phone is a samsung, my landline phone system is northern telecom, my Sony TV and I drive a Toyota.
Oh! I have an Xbox! That, at least, was ASSEMBLED in north america... I think...
Does your Toshiba have an Intel processor in it? Those are American, made in America.
Your Toyota may not be an American brand, but it was most likely assembeled in America.
Not everything with a foreign brand name is built overseas. Just like not everything with a domestic brand name is built here. The auto industry is a great example of this.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire
Originally posted by NickHimself Does your Toshiba have an Intel processor in it? Those are American, made in America.
Your Toyota may not be an American brand, but it was most likely assembeled in America.
Not everything with a foreign brand name is built overseas. Just like not everything with a domestic brand name is built here. The auto industry is a great example of this.
The processor is indeed Intel, but intel has fabrication and assembly plants the world over, including denmark, costa rica, china, the phillipines, malaysia, ireland, israel... It may not necessarily have happened in the US. I'm not about to pull apart my lappy to check the manufacture code on it to confirm that, however.
And my Toyota was assembled in Canada. I know, I visited the plant where it was made (it's in Cambridge, Ontario FYI). I was fully aware of its point of origin. Many of the parts that go in there are forged in the US, many of them using canadian steel. They also assemble Lexus at that particular plant. Hm... what's the plural of 'lexus'? Lexuses? Lexae? Lexii? Meh.
I did find something that was a little more obviously US in manufacture origin... my HP laserjet!
Originally posted by Pornweaver This thread is mainly in reference to the "adult" industry.
adult or corporate business, no one is stopping US companies in getting into cheap labor. other countries are getting equal competition that the US has to offer on a much lowered manpower expenses.
I am not an american but I would love to buy US made jeans, sports goods, etc. However, last time I saw a pair of US manufactured Levis was at least 7 years ago....
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