At 05:17 PM 4/22/2004 -0700, you wrote:


>I've bought from them a few times; the LEDs are good quality quality, but
>I've had some arrive not working (expect a 10% failure rate and you won't be
>disappointed).

Our China factory has two quality grades- one for North American and European
customers and a lower grade for Pakistan, India etc. that has more fallouts
and other floor-sweepings included. The price difference is 30% or 40% IIRC.
Maybe someone is reselling the low-grade units, kind of like Poly Paks did
in the US many years ago.

Similarly, my client in HK makes a product which sells in large quantity
for $0.50. A mainland competitor sells their equivalent for less than half
the price, but with 15% or 20% bad units. They don't mind that for the
price difference in third world countries, they just pay someone peanuts
to sort through them and try to fix the bad ones.

Best regards,

Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..."            "The Journey is the reward"
speff@interlog.com             Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com
Embedded software/hardware/analog  Info for designers:  http://www.speff.com

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