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RE: Abrahamsen VS Electrocompaniet...

Posted by RGA (R) on June 27, 2015 at 02:17:18

In Reply to: RE: Abrahamsen VS Electrocompaniet... posted by AbeCollins on June 26, 2015 at 08:43:26:

Your complaint is valid except that numerous Western companies have been doing the same things over the years. The only difference is when you buy the Chinese knockoff you are paying knockoff prices - when the Americans do it they bend you over. (Ahem like buying $399 laser disc players adding $25 worth of parts and charging $5k). Indeed, even when Ming Da uses the knock-off so long as the knock-off actually works properly you pay your $699 for a tube amp and you kind of have to know you're not getting the best parts. So they silk screen Rudycon on top of some mainstream cap - but it's probably fine.

Indeed the product has a better than average chance at being at last "safe" because unlike the west, when a company sells products that are deadly there is real punishment. The western company that sells deadly products - nothing happens - court battles for years - appeals - and then some sort of fine - which is usually a pittance. In China - they find you guilty and take the CEO around back shoot him in the head and bill the family. So if I get electrocuted because some putz President of the Chinese amp maker deliberately cheaps out and sells dangerous goods - I will at least have the pre-satisfaction to know that he'll be shot. In the US - nothing. Zero zilch nada - they get a fine and will make the fine back by not paying their oversees slave labour force for a couple of weeks.

I never liked the idea of corporations being called people - you can shoot people, you can lock a person up and seize all their assets when they do wrong.

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