Karsoncookie Posted April 11, 2015 Posted April 11, 2015 Totally unbelievable - We get a wind chime two months ago from a relative as a gift. We hang it up outside. in a geographical area that RARELY gets winds over 10 mph. And on the North side of the house. 40 days later, the string holding it all together fails. How stupid shitty are these people even with Cave Man technology of making string? Lars Quote
RRR Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 Lucky it lasted that long, probably some 5 year old working 20 hour days constructed the thing. Tie it back up with some good fishing line and hope for the best. Quote
OO1 Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 Defective string - that can happen anywhere in the world - 1 Quote
Skelt Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 I honestly believe it is intentional. It is their way of getting us scrambling around fixing things and taking our minds off of more important matters. Quote
OO1 Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 no , you see they sell these for maybe 1$ in Asia - once they reach us , they sell for 25$ - rather than say 2$ - the seller makes 2500% profit , poor chinese worker gets a pennie - Quote
Karsoncookie Posted April 12, 2015 Author Posted April 12, 2015 OMG - I say with American made miniature Parachute cord, or mono-filament US made, this would last maybe 20 yrs????? Quote
Skelt Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 The workers get a pennie and we get a swift kick. Quote
OO1 Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 The workers get a pennie and we get a swift kick. or a bowl of rice - Quote
Marvel Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 (edited) or mono-filament US made, this would last maybe 20 yrs????? I guarantee it won't last that long. I actually made wind chime sets for gift for friends and it's brutal on the strings/cords. The Chinese can made as good a quality product as the importer wants to pay. They can make very, very good products. They made good products for Klipsch, but Klipsch had to pay more for those products. Once the costs were higher than the costs to build here, they brought production back to the US. Don't misunderstand me, the Chinese government is repressive and vast numbers of the population live in terrible conditions. Many who work in factories are making more than they have ever made in their lives. What we often forget is that it doesn't take as much to live over there. We can't directly compare our incomes to theirs. Bruce Edited April 12, 2015 by Marvel Quote
OO1 Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 (edited) or mono-filament US made, this would last maybe 20 yrs????? I guarantee it won't last that long. I actually made wind chime sets for gift for friends and it's brutal on the strings/cords. The Chinese can made as good a quality product as the importer wants to pay. They can make very, very good products. They made good products for Klipsch, but Klipsch had to pay more for those products. Once the costs were higher than the costs to build here, they brought production back to the US. Don't misunderstand me, the Chinese government is repressive and vast numbers of the population live in terrible conditions. Many who work in factories are making more than they have ever made in their lives. What we often forget is that it doesn't take as much to live over there. We can't directly compare our incomes to theirs. Bruce by our standards - they are in extreme poverty and semi-slavery to the state -and tons of child labour - they all want to leave the country and would dream of coming to the USA - Edited April 12, 2015 by Randyh Quote
Marvel Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 They want to beat the USA and many there think they will. You ever been there? Bruce Quote
OO1 Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 (edited) They want to beat the USA and many there think they will. You ever been there? Bruce the average person on the street knows that they are much better off now than before - their immediate concern , is to find a way out of poverty , heavy pollution , sickness , -and that takes time - the ones who have the chance to immigrate are very happy to leave - Edited April 12, 2015 by Randyh Quote
Quiet_Hollow Posted April 14, 2015 Posted April 14, 2015 I bought a set of Woodstock chimes as a gift for my parents in '98. This was back when they were still made in West Hurley, and just before they got really popular. They've been hanging off their back door for over 17 years...no problems. Paid for what at the time was a small fortune, but it was simply a matter of buy once, cry once. Remarkable quality at the time, they hardly show any wear. Quote
Moderators dtel Posted April 14, 2015 Moderators Posted April 14, 2015 The best thing I have found to re-string wind chimes is sold at a fishing store. The braded line made for fishing, I don't know what it's made of but it last and is very strong and no thicker than the heavy monofilament, I forget the name. Quote
Karsoncookie Posted April 14, 2015 Author Posted April 14, 2015 dtel- Ya, decent braided fishing line in general terms is what I don't get why they didn't use initially. Maybe would have added 1 cent to the cost for farrr greater longevity. But thats my point. Either the mfg OR the US co specing and ordering the product doesn't care. Just ridiculous either way. Lars Quote
Moderators dtel Posted April 14, 2015 Moderators Posted April 14, 2015 In that case it's whoever is buying. If we wanted to get something made overseas we set how or what quality materials are used to match what were trying to get out of it (charge). If the builder changes that it up to us to decline because it's not what was ordered. Now if it's just made and sold over here by whoever is making it anything goes, so it would depend. I would guess both are happening including companies ordering the cheapest builds, which probably equal junk. And price means little as far as quality goes, packaging and a good name brand can be deceiving, it's the game every company plays. You never know Quote
mungkiman Posted April 14, 2015 Posted April 14, 2015 I'm guessing your neighbor hates wind chimes, and cut the string. I'd go a step further, and take the damn thing. 2 Quote
Karsoncookie Posted April 14, 2015 Author Posted April 14, 2015 Mungkiman - :laugh: :laugh: That's funny. But it's even funnier because the chime rang like barely at all. Again, Jina crap. Didn't even make anything that would resonate. Package was pretty though. Lars Quote
oldtimer Posted April 15, 2015 Posted April 15, 2015 . Either the mfg OR the US co specing and ordering the product doesn't care. Or both. Quote
Karsoncookie Posted April 15, 2015 Author Posted April 15, 2015 Ya, so also now we have somekinda thing with some chickens I think raised in US, then when ready to harvest, are shipped to Jina to butcher, then sent back to us. Very interesting how thats cost effective. And so now we have a commercial on TV, I think Perdue with an animated folksy farmer with a straw hat and cute little chickens running around and American flags- message is --We have USA chickens. And what about the Hillshire Farms sausage commercial showing the old faded barn and grounds like an idyllic Wisconsin generations old homestead ? I'm very glad I've seen those commercials, now I know , because I have seen, the actual family farms where the chickens and sausages come from. Lars Quote
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