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Old 02-25-2016, 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Idle View Post
I am seeing a lot of higher quality stuff coming out of China. The old adage of quality forcing out the weaker players is starting to take hold in China.
The bigger issue is the amount of fakes coming out is growing dramatically. The fakers are so good they are able to inject themselves into the supply chains rather easily, even for OEMs. It's relatively low-risk and high-reward, as Chinese officials rarely (if ever) enforce foreign copyrights and trademarks. So even when caught, there's little risk of any prosecution and the factory *might* get shut down, and even if it does, it just goes on to make other goods for other brands. Work is contracted out, which is then contracted out again so many times it's often difficult to impossible for an OEM to verify what factory the goods they are getting even came out of.
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