Bad Foreign Electronics

When we sent our electronics manufacturing off-shore, the cost reduction was 50%.  Everybody felt like they had to do it because everybody else was doing it. US manufacturers who started to buy their circuit boards overseas had to suffer the travel costs distance costs and the costs to return boards that didn’t work. 

Since the 1980s, we can observe the deterioration of the quality of the electronic devices made overseas.  I have a 1983 RCA 27” Console TV set that won’t die.

High priced HP printers didn’t last very long.  Outside LED up- lights don’t work. TV remote controls and cable boxes don’t work. PCs are not built to be forward and backward compatible, so whenever Microsoft releases its next and decidedly worst new Windows software, you find out it doesn’t work with your printer and you need a new PC.

I don’t know why, but smart phones seem to be replaced annually.  It may be due to consumers wanting the “new one”, but I suspect a lot of this is disposable electronics.

We’ve had enough of this.  We want better electronics and it won’t be coming from overseas.  We will pay more for better electronics that last longer and will work for years.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader