Post #68685
2025-12-16 09:08 UTC
Replies (3)
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@BlackAura@lemmy.world 2025-12-16 19:35
I mean I’m sure it was a mix. There are a lot of stories out there about how if you didn’t stay on top of your outsourced factory they would look everywhere to cut corners to save a few extra cents here and there. You (used to?) have to constantly check production quality and make sure nothing was changed out for a low cost part or lower cost source material. Otherwise your product quality falls off and you’re losing money on warranties and repairs and losing customer goodwill. The other thing that happened is these factories, once they had your design, would make the same thing with lower cost parts / materials as a knockoff and sell it unbranded, as they don’t care about US or European IP Laws. Word might get around that “hey you can get the same brand X product as brand Y or from Aliexpress and save 50%”. Now they’re undercutting you, and you lose customer goodwill because people think your product is overpriced. Then the knockoff fails and they are happy they never bought your product in the first place because they think yours would have failed too.
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@bountygiver@lemmy.ml 2025-12-17 03:11
Or rather it has always been you get what you paid for. People buy the cheapest option China can offer and surprised it’s has the cheapest quality they are offering.
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@digdilem@lemmy.ml 2025-12-17 11:23
Not just America - all Western countries did. We made it expensive to manufacture goods due to labour costs and well-meaning but crippling environmental protections and couldn’t compete on price.