In article >,
"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote:


> Sadly, the American public buys by price. You can buy a Kitchen Aid toaster
> for $50, or you can buy a China made GE for WalMart for $8. If no one
> bought the $8 toasters, WalMart would stop having them made and the KA sales
> would increase.

> We don't need regulation, we need educated consumers that know what a
> quality product is and willing to pay for it.

But how do I, the average household consumer, know the difference? I
would have thought that GE was a quality name. I hear people saying
that Kitchen Aid is junk. How do I know that the toaster that says
"Kitchen Aid" on it and costs US$50 isn't the same exact toaster inside,
made by the same factory and imported into the US by the same company,
that says "GE" on it and costs US$8? Many of us learned this lesson at
an early age. My father bought a cheap imported transistor radio many
decades ago. It said "Magnavox" on it. He paid good money for it, at
an expensive store. It broke down fairly quickly, and he took it back
to the fancy store, expecting some satisfaction. They just laughed at
him. What did he expect? It was a cheap imported product. They told
him to just throw it away, and refused to even look at it.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA