When us a deal isn't a deal.?

The simple answer is when the quality for the money is not there. It becomes less simple when you start doing the quality versus price comparison. The cheapest looks like the better deal until you realize how long it is not going to last. However, the highest price one is just that, the highest price. The trick is knowing the product, knowing the company, and knowing your needs. Take for instance a Kitchen Aid mixer. If you actually use your kitchen and do some heavy duty wrok like making bread on a regular basis, then you will be ahead getting the higher end mixer. If you just occasionally use your kitchen and wonder what a mixer is, then save your money and get yours froma yard sale.

The thing that bugs me is when companies go overseasto get cheapergoods with the implications that are equal to the domestic product and they wind up inferior and useless. China seams to be taking the front in substandard products. They are by no means the only ones guilty of this practice. I would like to challenge buyers, both individuals and business, to become informed when you buy. More important, hold those sell substandard and shoddy goods accountable. The producstdon't always need to be the top quality but if they don't meet even the lowest standards of economy part or unsafe, then we have a problem.

With chronic problems like China seams to be, let us refuse tosupport their business until they prove the can meet our standards. This does not require legislation. It takes the buyers to vote with their money if that company gets reewarded with business or not.