Reliability, prices and quality..

[atoll]

Ecotech MP40s with website magnets rusting just one example of once quality equipment failing before the much cheaper Chinese equivalent. We have much cheaper Chinese lights as good as the much more expensive brands.

Not just reliability but VFM with cheaper alternatives costing around 1/3rd of the equivalent high end pumps. Jebao in particular seem to be leading the way for both.

I have a jebao return.pump which has been running for 6 years without a problem. A jebao gyre 4 years. A jebao pump feeding my ATS 6 years. All for around a third of the much more expensive brands.

I don't mind paying a little extra for quality but where is the difference? We're is the value for money? With 3 times the price for something performing just as well is a hard pill to swallow.

I was talking to the joint owner of the UK distributor last week, a well known brand that I won't divulge. I was told the Chinese pumps etc are taking away a lot of sales from them. Is there any wonder and. And It's not just the here today gone tomorrow hobbiests either that are buying cheaper Chinese products.

Something needs to give and for me and many I suspect there will be no more Ecotech etc for me I'm afraid.

 

[X-37B]

China today is like Japan was when I was a kid in the 60-70's.
All that junk everyone made fun of, now we can't get enough of it and it's not junk anymore.
If it was not for China many could not afford to be in this hobby.
China's quality will continue to improve over time and people will still complain.

 

[NanoSteam]

China today is like Japan was when I was a kid in the 60-70's.
All that junk everyone made fun of, now we can't get enough of it and it's not junk anymore.
If it was not for China many could not afford to be in this hobby.
China's quality will continue to improve over time and people will still complain.

Agreed, though there are still all levels of quality coming out of China, you can certainly find equally well made products out of China as you can made anywhere else.

 

[atoll]

Agreed, though there are still all levels of quality coming out of China, you can certainly find equally well made products out of China as you can made anywhere else.

Most made in China as well and if not then the components made in China.