> I just find it truly amazing that these things can be built and sold 
> with some profit at $65, that the performance is somewhat lacking is 
> really not surprising!

So do I. And I suspect that they may not be able to be. Getting 
product into the world and providing traction for the growing / 
stretching / learning giant may be more important than making ends 
meet in a realistic manner. I strongly suspect that there is more than 
just the 'invisible hand" at work here. And we are all cheerily 
revelling in their largesse - something which we are certain to regret 
in the next few decades. I have *nothing whatsoever* against the 
Chinese people, and I can understand much of the behaviour of the 
Chinese leadership, even though I often enough personally dislike what 
they do, but "we" in the west (and elsewhere) (I very much included) 
are bringing doom on ourselves as we buy our $US65 engine alternator 
sets and bounteously cheap bags, pens, tools, paper, batteries, .... 
without any great thought of where it will lead. It's going to be 
interesting :-).




        RM


 

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