Team Associated B4 Factory TEAM - built in China

[tommychev]

Originally Posted by Beanie

Public wants, what the public gets.....if they demand it ever cheaper then manufacturers will try to achieve that.....that means cheaper labour and production costs.

Comes down to retailers setting expectation too, bit of a tangent but stick with me.....if Tesco say you can buy a chicken for £2, then suddenly that is what we expect and so scorn the idea of paying a fiver for a chicken...it sets our expectation. If we were told the chicken was no less than a fiver then that would be our expectation also. You have to appreciate the choices you make as a consumer....if you buy cheap, you can't really moan that manufacturing in this country has gone for a burton....pay a little more and you support British jobs, and then we all benefit...less out of work, etc.....

If the production costs and labour costs are cheaper, then why are we still paying top dollar for the kits and other items? Yes, the public would like cheaper priced items, thats true, but if the manufacturers have gone to China and are building cheap junk, then why havent they dropped the prices? Corporate greed is at its best by the look of things. Really, instead of paying 280.00 US for a B4 kit, it should be more like half that price. Rip off merchants. Its disgusting. The consumer has not benefited at all. THe prices are still the same, and the quality is crap. You should see the new battery thumb screws how bad they are. I threw them in the bin they were so bad. When i received a b4 kit this week , two of the shock caps were cross threaded even before fitment!!! Looks like the only people who are benefiting from this are the corporate fat cats