"SteveH" wrote in message
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| Capitol wrote:
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| The low cost Chinese
| manufacturers are now very good in most cases at producing a reliable
| product in the TV market. If you look at the number of failures on a
| production % basis you will likely find that they are better than most
| big brand names which actually have no sales volume!
|
| As someone who used to make a living out of selling consumer electrical
| goods, I can tell you that cheap goods have a _significantly_ higher
| returns rate than a good-quality branded product (note, I don't just say
| branded, as a lot of the big brands do 'budget' ranges which are just
| rebadged cheap brands).

The Wal-Mart factor?

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