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gvarsity · 12-10-2009, 03:01 PM

A lot of it is our own damn fault by chasing low low prices and driving all manufacturing to China where there is no quality control, no safety oversight and no pride. Our justification to often is but hell it's so cheap when it breaks you just by a new one.

I myself struggle to live that way. I try to buy used/antique often times and when I do have to buy new I tend to buy fewer things that are way better made. I.e. the crib we bought for our daughter was 30%+ more money than the box stores but it is 100% renewable American hardwood made to order in Oregon by artisan craftsman with no petrochemical paints or stains.

I'm not trying to be smug it is I just couldn't handle shelling out 300$-400$ for a piece of assembly line crap fiberboard from China. My grandchildren will be able to use this crib (assuming they don't change the safety rules) and I'm not worried about it being recalled or my daughter getting poisoned by the paint etc...

It is like people getting an aristocrat instead of something of Cigarbid. Sometimes when it is important you have to find the real deal and pay for it and not settle for the mega-manufactured crap.

12-10-2009, 03:01 PM	#15
gvarsity still crazy Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 621 Trading: (15)	Re: Why not Walmart? Rant alert. A lot of it is our own damn fault by chasing low low prices and driving all manufacturing to China where there is no quality control, no safety oversight and no pride. Our justification to often is but hell it's so cheap when it breaks you just by a new one. I myself struggle to live that way. I try to buy used/antique often times and when I do have to buy new I tend to buy fewer things that are way better made. I.e. the crib we bought for our daughter was 30%+ more money than the box stores but it is 100% renewable American hardwood made to order in Oregon by artisan craftsman with no petrochemical paints or stains. I'm not trying to be smug it is I just couldn't handle shelling out 300$-400$ for a piece of assembly line crap fiberboard from China. My grandchildren will be able to use this crib (assuming they don't change the safety rules) and I'm not worried about it being recalled or my daughter getting poisoned by the paint etc... It is like people getting an aristocrat instead of something of Cigarbid. Sometimes when it is important you have to find the real deal and pay for it and not settle for the mega-manufactured crap.