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If you guys want to attack me for starting this post and keeping allive so many times... go ahead.
Max - I am doing something about it... I own a US Company that deals in Original Japanese products... but that wasn't obvious enough for you!
KOREA (North/ South- who really gives a F*#@) has been threating to Nuke the US for the last 2 years. Vietnam Kicked our asses, and China helped. Go back to school, and turn on CNN. Now back to the real topic...
I personally dont think buying a product that is produced under low quality environments and/ or sweat shops is worthy of being used on my car, or my customers. However some large companies like HKS my have some of their products outsourced to other countries, but the large majority of the part is produced by HKS. Just like your car (look on the door) should say something like 90% made in Japan/ 10% made in USA. My car is Japanese therefore the parts going on my car are as well... that has been my logic (and others). Correct, If you are buying e-bay special parts or the cheepest parts available... then No, your not my target customer and I can agree with Apex-i on that... and Yes a Brand Name or Label does bring a sence of security to the quality of the product. The Ebay special RAS and Cooling panel was never tested for quality, more than likely just a chopped copy of an original and you have no clue where it came from (China or some guys backyard). Does it get the job done? Maybe, but all we really know is that it Looks the part.
Toyota and Nissan have jumped ship and have several large plants in the US which employ several tens of thousands per plant. Some cars are 100% made for the US market only.
I have thought about producing my own parts, and I am highly skilled to do so. However, at this time, I do have bigger obligations. I have been working with Mike @ Kognition Design on producing parts.
How in the hell can can the US market compete when China pays some $0.90/hour to some povern family. even if it takes 24 hours to produce 1 part thats onlt $21.60 in labor... material is cheeper also. Americans know that if they have skills they expect to get paid for them... welders get about $20/ hour (just for reference)... thats about 23 hours of production work in China. The only way the US market can compete is to manufacture by robotics, that way the turn over is greater and generally better quality. This is a very very deep topic.
Correct, customers dont like to wait, but when your dealing with a Company that is not willing to Jump ship to America, then you have no choice. For whatever reason the company has (finnacial/ expansion/ language/ production/etc...) it doesn't matter. You as a customer can bitch and complain all you want on why Yashio Factory/ URAS/ JUN/ etc.. are not here in the US... However large you feel the demand may be for those companies may be.... stop... go back and read this entire thread and tell me how logical it would be to bring over a 40ft container!!!! We all want what we can't have, and once its made available we loose interest... plain and simple.
Peace
Drew
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