At 11:39 PM 8/11/2008, you wrote:
> > She said it was rubbish quality
>
> > Buying expensive high-quality high-marketing brand clothing that lasts
>
>I appreciate that, but why bother buying crap overseas when you could
>have bought the same crap back home ?
>
>And price is no indicator of quality of course, seen several durability
>tests done on clothing that show a "label name" means next to nothing
>in that respect
>
>Just how much better is a $2000 handbag than a $40 one ? 50 times ?
>
>Clothing is not comparable to electronics in many regards though

When my wife was working in Tianjin a decade ago or so (environmental
work on a car plant, paid for by our government as aid), she picked up some
fake North Face jackets in a Beijing market-- one for me and one for
our son. They both looked good. My one fell apart in short order (wrong
thread used for the material, I think), whereas the kid's jacket probably
lasted as long as a real one would have. Crap shoot.

I'm afraid that this is a bit like blind men describing an elephant..
with a country of 1.3bn people. Imagine if you tried to do business in
the US from half a world away, and demanded to communicate in, say,
German with German instructions and all your drawings were first-angle
projections. You wouldn't find the most competitive suppliers (an elephant is
like a wall), you might run into unscrupulous ones (an elephant is like
a snake) and you might get shipped garbage (an elephant is soft, warm 
and squishy..)
well, you get the idea. One person finds minimum orders of 100K and another
has no problem sourcing quantity five of prototype 8-layer PCBs.

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Rich city people in China are going to show off like rich people everywhere--
Y50 for a cake and coffee at Starbucks! That's more than home.. and too much
at home!.. but the average income is still very, very low there. Because
China has become the nexus of world manufacturing, it will maintain an
important position for a very long time, IMHO, just as Japan has long
after costs spiraled beyond that of Western countries.

>Best regards,

Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..."            "The Journey is the reward"
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