What is your perception of goods made in China?

Yup, I do agree with you. We've had experiences of electric cookers and fans that go haywire within a month or two, so we are rather wary of buying goods made in China. Furthermore with the previous news of tainted food, we are careful about their canned/prepacked food. We'd rather pay a bit more for quality and safe goods/food.

As they say, God created the world and the rest was by China. Majority of the companies especially electronics have moved their factories and plants to China due to cheap labor. Some might argue that this means a degradation in quality but it still depends on the company. I dont think a Nokia phone that is made in China is substandard in quality if compared to a Made in Finland unit.

The only goods I have personally bought from China a small electrical goods and toys, bought from eBay. I have to agree the quality can be appaling at times , usually mass produced rubbish which only lasts a short period of time. But then I guess you only get what you pay for nowadays, so if you buy cheap then you cant expect too much in the way of standards and quality. If I wanted something to last then I would probably not buy Chinese goods, although I am sure they do manufacture some high quality items. Have a cool day.

Yeah. I've got a hell lot of bad experiences with goods made in China. The quality sucks. I mean, I like buy one thing today and it breaks up and I have to throw it out next day. Even here in India most of the shelves are monopolized by products made in China. BECAUSE products that are made in China are cheap (inferior quality).

Yes, you are right. Lots of goods here in Australia are made in China. Even Australian companies are having their products made in countries such as China, Thailand and Taiwan as they can get them made much cheaper than they can here in Australia. Not all of the products that I have seen from China have been bad, but if you see any of those cheap novelty toys or cheap souvenirs, then they are more than likely made in China. A lot of clothing is also made in China these days as well.

You will always remain in that bad perception of China made goods. My country is flooded with China products. It is our government that should control the import activity so that the so called SIRIM should find good task of rejecting goods made in China. China made goods are very attractive on the external look only but, like you said (experienced), you buy today and throw away the next day--useless goods.There is one particular item that was no more available in my country that I used to buy--the stainless steel can opener that was made in England. It was very good and strong. But a similar item was made in China and for sales in almost every market here in my country. Though China made goods are cheaper, they are actually worthless to buy because they are not lasting and the quality is very low.

You get what you pay for as the saying goes. I guess one of the reasons their goods are so cheap is that there is NO quality control. There is cheap labour and cheap ingredients and probably minimum overheads. The alternatives are just too expensive and quite often the same quality. I know that if I buy something and it breaks or fails in a few days I am glad I only paid $2 not $10. What people don't seem to realise is that our money is constantly losing value much more quickly so that what we purchased for $5 5 years ago now probably costs $7 or $8. (What are you doing in Australia? Have you run away from home?)

I live in Canada and made in China products here are really cheap. They are made of cheap quality that is why they can be purchased cheap. Most of the products in our dollar stores are made in China. But some things I don't think it really matters. For example I buy my suduko books at a dollar store for a buck and they are made in China. Who cares where they were made!! But when it comes to clothing I won't buy anything made in China. Not that all of their clothes are cheap, I'm sure, but their sizes are all so small and I can't even fit their size large and I only weigh 140 pounds and am 5'7", and they don't make xlarge sizes, not that I need to wear an xlarge by anybody else. Thanks my friend, Chris

hi zandi I have the same feeling and now days if it says made in China I just put it back on the shelves, why buy something that you know could be very harmful to your health. I once bought a sack of candy made in China.One piece upset my tummy three pieces gave me a severe sore throat. What was ever in those candies was toxic and did not belong in food stuff at all..

hi zandi, now the china is developed like that they can do what ever,now they are capturing the most of the market in the world,they are giving the product for a cheaper rate,because the manufacturing costs and the labor was cheap there,now they are work hard people,they can make cheap and costly items also,even Casio company authorised products exporting from China,have a nice day

We have the same perception about China's goods. No offense and pun intended to our Chinese friends but we are just stating what we have experienced. China has been in controversial because of their products contaminated with toxic chemicals especially their milk. That gives us a scare to purchase anything from China. Second reason is that here in my country the sub standard products are from China. You will see them everywhere and are sold cheaper than those which passed the BPS test. For me, when I thought of China products, it means poor quality and unsafe...

Hi Good Evening, I just want to say something when we go to the grocery, we see a lot of Canned goods like Sardines for example.. We see a variety of sardines, some are cheap some are priced to much, so what decides Us to buy a particular brand of sardines, is it the price, is it the taste, or what we used to eat/buy. if you select the cheaper one, then we should not expect a better taste,but eating it will still get us full. the pricey ones will compensate the sought after taste...better for the taste buds yet will yield us stomach full just the same as the cheaper ...one my point is, a product is sold cheaper because it lacks the quality, (but i am not speaking for all, some products are cheaper yet has the quality as the pricey one, but its usually the cheaper that lacks quality) and secondly.. If you ask somebody from Japan, they will definitely answer our products are the best!! now let us try asking a Californian, they wouls say California apples are of the highest quality..and when a Chinese Sellers come in, you can have four of those with same price imagine four I-phones if you broke one you still have three left. ( but i am not from china) I am from the Philippines and we make people smilesss FREE of CHARGE.

yes, I accept your views..I too have many experiences with the bad quality products made in China..But the surprising fact is that when I visited US, I found that the kids wears from the leading brands were made in China(like Carters in US)..Only then I made a research and found that big companies give the job of making the product in China because of the large manufacturing cost of the products in US.. You can find almost all products in US - from pencils to big electronic goods are made in China..BUT THE QUALITY IS GOOD and sometimes EXTREMELY GOOD.. What I feel is that Chinese companies have a set of quality standards for each country..And when the product does not meet the standard of a particular country(say US) then they dump these products into someother country (generally an Asian country) who do not care about the standards..

Yes, most made in China products are like that. But not all. Some China Manufacturers have a high standard, its just that some individuals like in some other countries (not all low quality products came from China) just take advantage of consumers by using low priced raw materials. Maybe it's because of the bad economy experiencing all over the world. Iknow that some countries are not accepting China products anymore because of this.

First of all, how interesting that in Australia the made in China products are of better quality. I guess maybe they are interested in making a lot to get paid a lot, and not worried about the quality. It has always made me feel like there is no pride in what they manufacture there. Just a hurry get it made and get it sold and shipped thing. Sad.

Hello Zandi. I think i can put some light on this topic as the subject has been explained to us in detail in college. The thing is that, there are 2 types of goods - good ones and bad ones - i am referring only to the ones produced in China of course. There are the fast, cheap, 1 cent- 1 day product - if i may call them so :) and there are the products of durable quality that ARE indeed made in China because of reduced personal cost, but at the same high standard one company has supplied from the start. I can even give you a very good example: my disney original store only products, are made in CHINA - and i bought them in Bath Disney Store (England). Trust me when i say that we have plush toys here, made in China as well, even disney products, but you can still feel the difference in quality - i found NOTHING as good as those from the Disney Original Store. Bottom line, the above is just one example of high quality goods made in China that respect the quality norms imposed by the Blue Chip Company Disney :) In case you don't know what a blue chip company is - those are the safest companies out there, the ones that can't go bankrupt anytime soon because of the very high profit, in guaranteed domains.

I also have bad impression about goods made in China but in fairness, not all made in China are bad. There are still durable things made in China. I am also wondering why they are not producing good quality products? Well, most of those products made in China that are not durable are the cheap ones. If you buy it for a dollar or 50 cents, sure enough you will end up throwing that the following day because it is already broken. China made products are all over the continents now I think.

It is well know here in Australia that products made in China are usually of a lesser quality, although it is not all and it might not be fair to generalise...I had an embarrassing incident happen when I decided to buy some Australian souvenirs for some Italian relatives who were visiting here. I purchased soft toys, t-shirts etc and gave me to my relations with pride only to realise that they were all made in China and I was informed by my Italian aunty that one of the t-shirts completely lost its shape the first time she washed it!

First, your own experience has already spoken for itself. There are products made in China that are not as bad as you imagine. At least, many people in Australia uses them day to day and yet they have no problems with them. For why there are bad quality products. It is an interesting question. More quality control means higher cost. So, what drives the low cost on these products? Is it the merchants in China intended to drive the costs of these products to such a low level for exporting to your home country? Put it this way, why are those products made in China instead of in your home country? There must be a good reason to transport these things all over the ocean (which is costly) and sell them in the domestic.

WEll in my own opinion and experience,yes most of the cheap goods from china are of low quality,toys, some foods,equipments,almost all items, but also remember that there are legit brands that are quality controlled by Big companies in china and made big sales and put large amount of profit in their pocket...below standard in the sense that they cater the lower poor budgeted consumers, but big brands also made big profits in there and outside the world.to me there are item sold that is below the standard, and there are also brands that are made there that is at par with the quality made in other countries....In our country the richest man is chinese filipino, and he owns many malls here,and other big Companies but still controls the quality of the items being sold...China or other countries there are good and bad perception when it comes to quality...not all made in china are of poor quality..that is my opinion..Thanks1