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| Thread ID: 97095 | 2009-02-04 03:26:00 | Chinese Counterfeiters | Terry Porritt (14) | PC World Chat |
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| 744817 | 2009-02-04 03:26:00 | Todays Dominion Post carried a 'Times' article about Chinese fakes; An extract.... "The real problem is that the sale of knock-off DVDs and Louis Vuitton bags, while painfully costly, represents the “tourist” side of piracy. The more troubling side is immense, industrial, and very often invisible. It is low quality building materials bagged-up as high quality American or European brands; it is cheap ball-bearings sold as their precision Japanese equivalents with the difference only knowable by experts or accident victims; it is sprawling networks of fake pharmaceutical drugs and the roaring businesses of various “Viagra King” knock-off traders around the world. " business.timesonline.co.uk A few years ago China was flooding the worlds markets (and our hardware shops) with fake high tensile structural bolts made of mild steel. Instead of our present government (or the last one ) worrying about a piddling bit of local music copying, they should get stuck in to the Chinese......but that's in the too hard basket....... :rolleyes: |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 744818 | 2009-02-04 03:40:00 | Wouldn't want to upset our biggest Free Trade partner (it's all about OUR exports).... :groan: | johcar (6283) | ||
| 744819 | 2009-02-04 07:29:00 | chinese fake everything, from fertizler to eggs. nothing is safe. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 744820 | 2009-02-04 07:34:00 | What worries me most is that previously reputable NZ brands are now importing Chinese made goods, rather than sourcing locally. One example is Watties - a huge number of their product lines are now either made in China, or partially made there and finished/packaged in New Zealand. Who knows what sort of fake insecticides/pesticides/additives are in those products. | somebody (208) | ||
| 744821 | 2009-02-04 07:50:00 | Once upon a time steel used to be made in Sheffield in the UK. I might add very good steel. Somewhere in China they named a town Sheffield so they could stamp the knives "made in Sheffield" This is from memory. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 744822 | 2009-02-04 07:58:00 | Yep. Buy NZ but we have few NZ products. I think that a good percentage of Watties is actually owned by Heinz for example. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 744823 | 2009-02-04 08:23:00 | we have a fair few products. but companies went overseas to be able to under cut the opposition so then everyone had to go overseas to be able to compete. lack of quality control, checking that they are actually making your product to your standards is an issue. also the people running the plant can simply start up another plant making your products but using cheaper labour and materials and selling it them themselves. there are a lot of fantastic products made here but they are usually top shelf and exported, so very rarly ever seen on the shelves here. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 744824 | 2009-02-04 08:32:00 | Once upon a time steel used to be made in Sheffield in the UK. I might add very good steel. Somewhere in China they named a town Sheffield so they could stamp the knives "made in Sheffield" This is from memory. Was that before or after British potters started faking Chinese dishes? |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 744825 | 2009-02-04 21:39:00 | Yep. ..... we have few NZ products. If people were willing to actually buy more expensive NZ Made goods, rather than just talk about it we would still be making stuff here. Myself, also guilty of buying almost nothing made in NZ. If food was labled Country of origin I'd would probhably pay the extra for NZ food . |
sroby (11519) | ||
| 744826 | 2009-02-04 21:40:00 | It is mainly the fault of our companies; they are the ones awarding the contracts to the lowest bidder. I used to think everything made in china was crap, but that is because the only things I see made in china are the things brought over here. There are high quality goods made in china, its just no one imports them (for example Fenix lights). Having said that, knowing that only the worst products from China are imported by NZ companies, I try to avoid any foods which say processed in China. edit: I don't believe in 'Buy NZ made'. We should focus on what we are good at (Dairy, agriculture) and pour money into research and investment to make sure we do it better than anyone else and export it to the world. For example if $1 invested in dairy and agriculture results in $10 return, while $1 invested in appliance manufacturing results in $1.50 return, it is obvious where our focus should be. For things we don't do so well, we should import the best of those |
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