My family business is design, production, manufacturing & commissioning of manufacturing facility for power industries and we get a lot of this China talk from our client's in meetings. Explain? If my friend with the solar cooker needed to find someone to build them is that what your families business does?

Chinese people are VERY good at duplicating but when it comes to problem solving in products they just keep quiet......"Yes their schools teach them the technical skills but as far as creativity, critical thinking and abstract problem solving they are lacking."

Many of our clients threatened to stop buying from us if we did not drop prices to meet China prices, We never did & they never purchased from China. "The solar industry is facing a similar dilemma, chinese solar modules are dirt cheap but they are also cheaply made and have a wide variance in actual output like +/- 12%(usually -), whereas our American/Japanese modules are in the +/- 3% range. Also I tell my customers that the smaller modules 10-20 watt that we get from China have changed shape, cell type and actual voltage.amperage 5 times over the last 4 years so it's nearly impossible to get a consistent product from them and they don't communicate they are making these changes. When you have a system on your roof it looks bad when your panels are all mismatched sizes and appearances...."

Purchase is a one time thing, but when it comes to service n support you can't depend on a vendor who's that far & has no international network for support n service.

Exactly that's the other factor, we had a 10watt Chinese module fail so bad it had melted the terminals in the junction box. It was less than a year old, when we called to get a warranty replacement they told us the manufacturer of that panel had gone out of business and the warranty had gone with it, yet we were still getting modules we thought through the same channel. Either they change the name of their facilities every so often or they trade customers amongst each other over there and don't tell anyone until the time comes to get a warranty or something......it's very sketchy, shady dealing with those guys....

Tell me.....If the supps you buy has "Made In China" printed on it, will you buy it?

Tell me.....If the supps you buy has "Made In China" printed on it, will you buy it?