
January 14th, 2004, 04:48 AM
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Re: OT Do you care were the products you buy are made
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Originally posted by Narrew:
true for the short run, but some jobs are customer service where we Americans will get to the point of not putting up with talking to people they can not understand or has such a low knowledge of what they are talking about, people will go elsewhere.
A subsidary of BristolMyer made orthopedic implants, they move machinery to Costa Rica for the lower cost for workers, BUT they did not have the ability to run the computer controlled machines so it was a year or so later that all the machines came back.
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Of course you are talking about high tech companies selling specialized equipment to other professionals. It probably doesn't apply so much to the Chinese Co making pLastic dog crap
I wonder if people even think about where something is made when they find it is crap. ie I've had 2 fairly new HP printers crap out on me lately. I never really thought about were they were made till now. I just looked on the bottom. - made in China. Hmm my busted scanner is made in China too. Of course all that means is there are pLastic parts in it. Around here if it's got any pLastic in it chances are it's made in China
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