"NOT MADE IN CHINA!!"
I would like to share a document with you I was recently given, somethings are debatable in some issues but a good chunk should be payed attention too.
The LED DelusionV2.pdf
Sometimes I get people asking me why I say "NOT made in CHINA!!!" on a lot of our advertising when it comes to products we distribute on the Sign Syndicate like our infamous NC LED's.
The answer has always been simple.
China manipulates their currency which provides a disadvantage when it comes to trade, it's unfair, unequal trade. American companies who have gone to Chinese plants for production for decades...think "Engineered In America, Made In China" philosophy has always resulted in playing musical chairs because unless you have an engineer, someone you can trust to watch these plants and observe or conduct your own quality control on a daily basis, more often than not things get changed up to cut costs. More often than not, that enforcer for quality control most likely will only show up quarterly or yearly.
Standards
Socialism versus Capitalism, who do you think has a higher incentive to do better?
Human rights, there is no such thing when it comes to China and how can there be under a dictatorship.
Chinese government/industrial hackers of our computer systems
It's clear until we greatly deregulate our own country so we can bring back jobs and production in our very own country, until that happens which will be hopefully soon we should be careful about who we buy from when we can as much as possible.
When it comes to our own electric sign industry, things maybe cheaper to buy Chinese BUT the quality is almost never there unless you have VERY tight quality control and when it comes to LED's from our own tests we have been running since 2008, we haven't seen it.
As that saying goes, "buy the best, and only cry once"