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Originally Posted by fastone53w
The Chinese mafia have there home ports, seas, and docks under control in some areas. They high jack the trucks or containers take real parts out, slip fakes in. Then take real ones resell them as legit items.
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sucks!!!!
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Big time, but they brought it on themselves with the outsourcing of manufacturing. I won't buy Chinese bearings unless absolutely nothing else is made in the size I need. So much Chinese stuff is crap, even name brands, it's ridiculous. I just bought a $200 18v Metabo grinder, now being made in China, the worm gear noise and play is so bad compared to their 120v German ones I disassembled it last night to see what was going on and nothing was obvious. Just lower tolerance standards and cost cutting, indicated by the outsourcing. Hopefully Coronavirus will have manufacturers rethinking their supply strategies, and maybe the Feds will start clamping down more on the counterfeits coming through US ports, like they're supposed to (obv they can't if goods were swapped and paperwork checks out like above story)