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Originally Posted by Maximo  Capt Noonie made some excellent points. Boycotting Chinese products could hurt American small business owners and their employees. Nothing is ever simple.
I am more than happy to buy American-made products, but I have had some bad experiences with them. One was a simple light fixture for my laundry room. I wanted to replace the cracked plastic "globe" that is more cake shaped. None of the stores carried anything like it so I had to order one online.
The fixture was proudly advertised as Made in America and it arrived covered in American flags. Sadly, the whole thing was a mess. The special bulbs could not even be installed because the sockets were welded on incorrectly, and the globe section was pathetic. It looked like 2 pieces of rough plastic glued together. I threw the whole thing in the garbage and ordered the one from China. It was perfect. |
Don't laugh
and probably not an option everywhere
-ever though of getting a custom blown globe?
We have an abundance of glass blowers here, go figure.
We have Made in China ceiling fans and the new energy effective (compact florescent CFL's) don't fit so we leave the globe off-getting a sun design bright orange/yellow one for my oldest son's outer space themed room.
hmmm I'll need to restock light bulbs pretty soon wonder where those are made and how I'm going to substitute if they are made in China.