Note that it's not just with knock-offs that this happens. Home
despot will often ask/force their vendors to take an existing product
and make it cheaper to meet a price point without changing the
external appearance. Makes it seem like you're getting the same
product cheaper at HD but in fact it may not be the same product
inside. The manufacturer that I've spoken to isn't happy about it but
doesn't have much choice in the matter or the don't get on the
shelves at the HD.
Michael
On Oct 5, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Wayne wrote:
> I agree, a lot of the stuff truly is identical. However, you have to
> remember how Chinese product cloning works: they apparently get
> requests to "build a copy of this" and are given some existing
> product,
> which they half-ass reverse engineer and churn out a superficially
> similar looking product, that is not identical and usually lower
> quality.
>
> Guess I'm saying, you need to go beyond exterior appearance to
> determine
> if things are really identical.
>
> -Wayne
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