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Bruce Sinclair

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Bruce Sinclair:
.. sadly these days, price is not an indication of quality. Neither is a
brand name. Particularly since high and low priced, and "brand" and non brand

products are largely made in the same factory.

It ain't necessarily so. In my 10 years living in Asia I found that the
quality products were designed by U.S. engineers and manufactured in
high-end facilities. The cheap junk was often farmed out by
packagers/exporters to family workshops, forced child labor in schools,
etc. The maker got a crude diagram and boxes of the cheapest available
parts, and assembled the items without oversight or QC.

Then your experience differs from mine.