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Subject: Would you buy items from China, or your home country?

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Poll: Would you buy items from China, or your home country?  [closed]
China:  49%
(33 Votes)
Home country:  51%
(34 Votes)
Total Votes: 67

Let's say that there's this really awesome flat screen HD 3D TV that you want to buy. You go to Best Buy and you see two of the exact same TVs that you wanted to get. One of them is made in China and costs $500. The other one is made in your home country (ie Made in America) and costs $650. Which one do you buy? Do you buy the Chinese-made one and get the TV for less, or do you buy the TV made in your country which costs more but helps to support your economy a little bit?

  • 01.03.2013 11:18 AM PDT

The cheaper one because I'm a typical, average consumer.

  • 01.03.2013 11:19 AM PDT

How do you know I'm not Chinese, OP?

  • 01.03.2013 11:19 AM PDT

Why don't we just share the hill?

China. -blam!- my own country, I'm cheap.

  • 01.03.2013 11:21 AM PDT

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If they're the same quality, the Chinese one.

  • 01.03.2013 11:22 AM PDT
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Are you implying that none of us are Chinese? How dare your sole!

  • 01.03.2013 11:22 AM PDT

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chances are, if it was assembled in my home country, the parts themselves would still be imported from elsewhere

most electronic devices require materials that come from a range of countries

  • 01.03.2013 11:23 AM PDT

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If there was a way I could have it so that everyone else and me would buy home country products, I would do that.

  • 01.03.2013 11:23 AM PDT

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I'd always prefer to support industry in my home country. From current personal experience I haven't seen anything to suggest China made products are of better quality. They just provide cheap work.

  • 01.03.2013 11:24 AM PDT
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Same quality? The cheaper product, like anyone else with any common sense.

Only the stupid would buy an identical TV for more because it was manufactured in the US versus China.

  • 01.03.2013 11:26 AM PDT

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Posted by: A Good Troll
Same quality? The cheaper product, like anyone else with any common sense.

Only the stupid would buy an identical TV for more because it was manufactured in the US versus China.

Well, some people like to support the economy.

  • 01.03.2013 11:27 AM PDT

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Posted by: IslocStarkiller
If there was a way I could have it so that everyone else and me would buy home country products, I would do that.
But it's more expensive. Competition is good for the consumer, and consumers push market prices. If everyone's buying the $500 Chinese one, the American manufacturer will drop their price to $500, or maybe lower.

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Posted by: MadMax888
If they're the same quality, the Chinese one.

  • 01.03.2013 11:27 AM PDT

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Isn't the the parts for the American TV still made in China? Anyway I would be the Chinese one because it's cheaper. There's no point of spending more on something when I can get the same quality for cheaper.

[Edited on 01.03.2013 11:30 AM PST]

  • 01.03.2013 11:29 AM PDT
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Britain is known for quality so British goods for sure, sure I'll still buy stuff from another country only because it isn't made in the UK.

  • 01.03.2013 11:29 AM PDT
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I only buy American.

Obviously electronics is the exception to the rule, but even then I only buy from American companies.

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Posted by: A Good Troll
Same quality? The cheaper product, like anyone else with any common sense.

Only the stupid would buy an identical TV for more because it was manufactured in the US versus China.

Well, some people like to support the economy.

That doesn't support the economy. Anyone who has taken a basic Economics class has probably learned specialization in trade - there is a treasure trove of empirical and mathematical evidence supporting the mutual benefit of specialization.

Buying a more expensive good that is identical hurts consumers and sets improper market incentives. If you asked any well-known economist of the past century - Kenyes, Hayek, Krugman, Greenspan, Bernanke - they'd agree.

[Edited on 01.03.2013 11:35 AM PST]

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Posted by: Android Spartan
Britain is known for quality
lol Since when?

  • 01.03.2013 11:31 AM PDT

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I buy the cheaper one.

  • 01.03.2013 11:42 AM PDT

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Posted by: MadMax888
If they're the same quality, the Chinese one.

  • 01.03.2013 11:47 AM PDT

It would depend more on the methods of the company. I'd "vote" with my wallet if I could, and I plan on doing so when I acquire infinite money sometime soon. I'd be willing to pay more for a product made from a company that provides a better overall deal for their employees, deals with suppliers that ensure "good" working conditions in their factories and wages, engages less in lobbying, and is (actually) environmentally responsible. Local suppliers/labor is preferable. Obviously, such a company might be hard to come by.

But the relentless push for lower prices and higher profitz has pushed companies to find money in the only places it can: employees, supply chains, quality control and sustainability measures, and even government. "Evil special interests" pushing for deregulation or whatever is not corporations being evil, even if it does hurt the nation, it's you pushing them harder to compete. And, yes, this all sounds a bit anti-competitive... but I don't really have anything wrong with consumers and investors wielding all the power. I just think we could wield our power a little better.

[Edited on 01.03.2013 12:16 PM PST]

  • 01.03.2013 11:47 AM PDT
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Britain is known for quality
lol Since when?

  • 01.03.2013 11:48 AM PDT
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I purposefully try and avoid Chinese made products in general. Call it a human rights stance.

  • 01.03.2013 11:52 AM PDT
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Buying foreign products leads to outsourcing. Outsourcing leads to the decease of American wages. The decrease of wages leads to a dependency on cheap foreign products.

It's a dangerous cycle that can't be allowed to continue.

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Either way as long as the product is functional and high quality (depending on purpose)

  • 01.03.2013 12:01 PM PDT

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