cheaply made stuff?

[supermanlives]

I remember when acme was pumping out goods. still had one of their juicers until a few years ago. you used to be able to fix stuff rather easier and more to the point it didn't break so easy. errr well so I bought new razor cordless wahl. lithium ion or whatever fancy battery. used it 2 times and was recharging it . when I hit cord accidentally it dropped 2 feet to lineolium sp? and became a puzzle!!!!!!!.got most back together but razor head aint happening . tiny plastic shit and spring and prob a few microscopic pieces I cant find. lol well I got a 70$ lithium ion battery now lol

 

[HidingInTheHaze]

I try to avoid super cheap shit from china.

I think the worst idea anyone ever had was having china make everything.

They suck, their materials are usually inferior and low quality, they have no environmental standards, no labor standards and their shit is usually toxic.

 

[supermanlives]

well 70$ aint that cheap . wahl has decent stuff usually . my last wahl lasted like 8 years I think. hard to find shit not made in china or some other shady manufacturer. it aint a deal if I have to buy em every year. lol. I wish usa would make stuff again. I wouldn't mind paying more ,especially if you could get it fixed locally like it used to be. I remember when last tv shop went belly up years back. sad day indeed

 

[Wiggs Dannyboy]

Product quality has been flushed down the toilet for years now. A big reason is that the manufacturing quality control has basically been forgotten, but another reason, in my opinion, is that the consumers nowadays don't hold the manufacturers accountable for making such shit.

Go to Amazon, and read reviews on a variety of products. I do this frequently, even if I'm not going to purchase from Amazon, just to get some kind of idea if the product in question is decent (I know, forget for a moment how many fake reviews are included in the bunch). SO MANY PEOPLE who review a product as being bad never suggest that they are going to return their recently purchased piece of shit...they instead indicate that "they will never buy this product again!", and then speak about a totally different product from a different manufacturer that they purchased to replace the first.

They don't hold these companies that are selling shit accountable at all. Nowadays there isn't any expectation of quality like there used to be. Everybody has taken on a "throw-away" mentality, and it's biting the consumer in the ass.

Boils down to..."ya get what ya deserve." If we accept shit, we gonna get shit.

 

[Downinthehollow]

I have the ACME Challenger Juicer, my pops gave it to me when I went to college and to this day is still running great. Only thing I don't like about it is it takes a little time to clean it out.

Also first post...used to be on here 2006 and overgrow before this.

 

[Stoner4Life]

I try to avoid super cheap shit from china.

I think the worst idea anyone ever had was having china make everything.

They suck, their materials are usually inferior and low quality, they have no environmental standards, no labor standards and their shit is usually toxic.

agreed!!! 100%
took the words right outta my mouf
double K++.......

 

[Wiggs Dannyboy]

I try to avoid super cheap shit from china.

I think the worst idea anyone ever had was having china make everything.

They suck, their materials are usually inferior and low quality, they have no environmental standards, no labor standards and their shit is usually toxic.

agreed!!! 100%
took the words right outta my mouf

double K++.......

I agree with yuse guys completely, best to avoid buying anything from China or similar places.

But...good luck finding stuff not made in these overseas hell holes. I remember 10 years ago trying to buy presents for my family members who are against prison labor, etc. I could not find but a few things that didn't have China on the label, and they didn't happen to be what I wanted to buy. I gave up on that.

Sure, you can find a few things not made overseas, but almost everything is made overseas nowadays. If you are able to find merchandise made in the US, or Canada, etc. it is quite rare, and usually very expensive in comparison. This is much easier to do if you are making a nice living, but so many folks in the middle class have seen their annual compensation just keep getting less and less.

It ain't easy.

 

[rives]

Acme is out of business? Who supplies Coyote with shit to go after Road Runner with?

My refrigerator/freezer just gave up. It was a top-of-the-line Whirlpool (theoretically not Chinese shit, and damn sure not cheap) that lasted 1 week less than 13 years. It had replaced a GE model that came with the house, but was 32 years old when it was swapped out, still fully functional, since the interior was going to hell because the plastic had gotten so brittle.

 

[supermanlives]

we need to make cheap copies of Chinese shit to get even.maybe tinfoil woks. lol didn't Chinese show up at Olympics with fake nike gear?

 

[dank.frank]

the problem is the idiot consumer based society we live in...

MOST people are rather HAPPY when something breaks. Not at first - but then they realize how excited they are to get to go out and buy something new and hurry out to purchase the latest gizmo - and they only expect it to last 2 years. By then, something new will be out they will want - and they don't bother to re-sell it because, well, everyone else wants the brand new tech too - so, goes the vicious cycle...

Manufactures don't have to change their standards because no one desires to own a singular object for very long - so items only have to last as long as the fickle consumer desires to own them...

It's disturbing. Like black Friday - the mass consumerism on that day makes me physically sick to my stomach...and embarrassed to be a part of this generation.

There used to be this goal to make things LAST - and THAT was what defined a quality purchase - an intelligent purchase. The notion of it being the last one you would ever need to purchase in your life time - made you an intelligent consumer and made companies respected for producing such items...

But - when the economy is driven not by quality but by output and sales figures used to inflate stock prices to make some corporate board members a bit more money on their annual returns - well, quality went out the window in the name of increasing consumer spending...and repurchasing...

The whole thing is a sham..."The American Dream"....scoff, choke, spit...



dank.Frank

 

[LEF]

I know what you are saying guys.

Everything just keeps breaking !

 

[SPG*]

Had a cheap plastic stop-watch from china for several yrs still going strong.
I won't touch it but the alarm goes off at 8.16am every morning THATS how I know it
Still works

 

[hayday]

My coffee maker broke this morning.3 months old P.O.S.
I'm always afraid of new shit just because of situations like this.

 

[Max Headroom]

it's not the lack of quality control! the faults in the products are INTENTIONAL!
it is called PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE and is the reason for the awful lifespan of products from cars to electric toothbrushes.

why are stupid built-in batteries in everything instead of changable ones? because with those batteries you can control precisely when the product becomes obsolete.
fuck the industry for pushing this crap on us and wasting enormous amounts of raw materials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfzQzGNYaiU

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

 

[Gelado`]

Once upon a time "Made in Japan" used to be synonymous with cheap crap. Guess what, the Chinese are getting so rich that THEY won't even buy cheap Chinese crap anymore. I see production shifting elsewhere by 2030 or so...then China will be in a recession of its own! China's growth is already slowing down, but they saw it coming and have prepared for it. Smart SOBs...

 

[motaloca]

just wait till we make shit here in Cambodia. So far we only manufacture shoes an clothes for nike puma etc.
the problem is the system, work your ass off so you can buy cheap shit you dont need and breaks after a year.
if shit doesnt break, there is no growth and if there's no growth, there are no hardons on wall street.
shit is too cheap to repair. so buy new shit. throw away your tv cause a 2$ part broke, no problem the next black friday will get you another piece of shit tv.
i won't even start on the environmental problems this causes. Ever been to China?

 

[Gelado`]

Cambodia is definitely going to go factory...friend of mine was just out in Siem Reap and the changes in the last decade have been immense. Our kids (or grandkids) are going to be laughing at cheap Cambodian crap pretty soon.

 

[HidingInTheHaze]

Im such an old man, even tho Im not that old. Growing up with my great depression grandmother made me the biggest cheapskate on the planet lol. Back in the day cars would last 50 years, now you are lucky if your car makes it to the end of your loan before it starts breaking and rusting.

 

[Wiggs Dannyboy]

it's not the lack of quality control! the faults in the products are INTENTIONAL!
it is called PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE and is the reason for the awful lifespan of products from cars to electric toothbrushes.

Although I stated in a previous post that it was bad quality control, I have to take that back, it was a poor choice of words on my part. Max's statement here about planned obsolescence is what I should have said....all the shit we are being sold is not any kind of an accident. I recently had my nice big microwave oven go kaplooie on me (right past the one year warranty), the numeric control pad went bad, it wouldn't turn off at the specified time. Cheap part, fucked the entire works, getting it fixed would have cost more than buying a new one.

So, I have to decide whether I should go purchase a new one, and while thinking about it I realize that I could go to one of those "rent to buy" stores that are complete rip offs and rent the same microwave for a year and end up spending about the same as renting it for a year as buying it new.

Fucking A!

I decided to go without a fucking microwave oven.

 

[HempKat]

There used to be this goal to make things LAST - and THAT was what defined a quality purchase - an intelligent purchase. The notion of it being the last one you would ever need to purchase in your life time - made you an intelligent consumer and made companies respected for producing such items...

Ah yeah, the gold old days, back when American made, always, always meant the best. Back when people got paid a living wage rather then a minimum wage and fringe benefits with 100% employer paid healthcare were standard for almost every job. Back when companies cared as much if not a little more about image then they did about the bottomline. Back when a wife could stay at home and be a mother and we weren't plagued by all the social ills we face today.

The sad thing is to many of the younger members of this site (under 50 years old) that world may as well be a fairytale for all they've ever known. Even those of us in our 50's only experienced the tail end of that reality.