Made in China - Cheap Yet Expensive
Cheap, yet expensive! HOW?
You want to gift a toy to your kid and go to a Toy shop.
You see two similar toys manufactured by two companies…
One is Made in some X country and is costly..
The other is Made in China and is cheaper..
You follow your common sense(!) and decide to buy the cheaper Chinese toy to your kid.. Anyway both LOOK the same.. You dont think it is necessary to understand why the other one is cheaper.. Is there any compromise being made to make it cheaper? You don’t care..
Two months later you read a report that the Chinese toy you bought is being recalled because of lead painting in it as it damages brain cells in children! But your child has already played with it for two months!
This is what exactly happened… 1.5 million of the Thomas & Friends trains (Made in China) were recalled in USA as it was found that the toys were coated at a factory in China with the deadly lead paint, which can damage brain cells in the children…
Cheap, yet expensive!
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You go to a pet food shop to buy pet food to your favorite cat.
You find two brands of pet food.. one costly…
and the other as usual a cheaper one from China…
You go for the cheaper one and your cat gets ill and is finally diagnosed for food poisoning.. somehow it survives.. and you discover that the Made in China pet food had wheat flour spiked with a chemical called melamine to make it look like an expensive protein-rich pet food!
This is what exactly happened!
Read the story here and here..
Cheap, yet expensive!
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You car is fitted with cheap Chinese tires….
One day while you are driving your car.. you loose control and the car bangs!! You some how survive.. only to find that the Chinese made tires in your car lack the gum strip, a rubber feature that helps prevent steel belts inside the tire from separating or from damaging the rubber!
That is what exactly happened!
Such 4,50,000 unsafe tires were ordered to be recalled in New Jersey and the American importer of these Made in China tires said it is going bankrupt and cannot afford more than 10% of these recalls!
The moral is do not start a company thinking that you would make money by selling cheap Chinese products. Your company will end up a bad name becoming bankrupt !
Cheap, yet expensive! Not only for the buyers, but even for the sellers!
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Tooth paste.. Yes, something as straight forward as that…
Let me not scare you again.. Lets go into the issue directly….
Glycerin is a permitted sweetener and a thickening agent used in tooth pastes …
Chinese products have to be cheaper.. but Glycerin is costly..
So what do the Chinese do to manufacture low cost tooth pastes?
Well, use diethylene glycol which is a cheaper alternate to Glycerin…
But is it safe? Who cares? Atleast the toothpaste manufacturers dont….
DEG (Diethylene glycol) which is meant to be used in anti-freeze now enters your mouth and body via the Chinese toothpaste ! It might be dangerous to children and to those with kidney or liver ailments !
Read the story here and here and also here
Moral of the Story: Nothing comes cheap, For every cheap item there is a hidden cost associated with it! The more cheaper it is, the more expensive it will prove to be…
BTW, are you aware of the Chinese bike manufacturing companies copying Indian bike models like Pulsar? There is so much of competition in the market that the Chinese companies simply dont have enough time or patience to manufacture products with their own design ! How many of you know that even the Indian Bajaj Autorickshaw is being manufactured and sold in China by a Chinese company that too with the same name! No time to think for a different name either!
Read the Story here. and here..
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