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To: marktwain

LOL

I love this, but was dismayed that he chose to have his product made in China. Guess I won’t be buying one! Should have searched the United States to find someone here to make this. Such a world.


30 posted on 07/20/2012 9:48:35 PM PDT by jcsjcm (This country was built on exceptionalism and individualism. In God we Trust - Laus Deo)
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To: jcsjcm

He probably chose to have it made in China because he wants to actually make a profit on his invention, and he wanted a quick turnaround. That thing would cost upwards of $200 if it were made here, and good luck finding anyplace with the engineering resources to do it right and to build the tooling without an exhorbitant outlay of cash.

This thing is clearly made by a toy manufacturer such as Early Light, Winson, or Jetta. They have the expertise for this sort of thing. To them, it’s just another Hasbro/Nerf blaster. There isn’t a manufacturer in America that is set up for doing the turn key work that this required.


38 posted on 07/20/2012 10:54:57 PM PDT by Adams (Fight on!)
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To: jcsjcm

you don’t know anything about manufacturing. It is often prohibitively expensive to find a company to manufacture stuff in this country, especially if it’s plastic. Depending on your volume or what you’re making, you may not even find one. Starting off the designer and mold maker will charge you a fortune, and that’s just for the CAD and mold, never mind actual production manufacturing. you have to be able to bring your product to market for a price people will pay, and allow for costs of packaging, freight, distribution/sales, insurance, etc etc. Sometimes it isn’t that a company/person doesn’t want to make a product here, sometimes it just isn’t feasible.


48 posted on 07/21/2012 2:51:58 PM PDT by visualops (artlife.us)
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