…while charging prices of USA made goods…
If you want to make shit overseas more power to ya, but charging made in USA prices for imported shit…
If you’d rather pay made in USA prices for things produced overseas more power too ya
Exactly, if they were half price and said “now IMPORTED” good for them,
f you want to make shit overseas that’s fine but trying to hide it, making bullshit excuses, and not dropping your price loses my support.
Im sorry you had a bad experience with your pack. But I certainly understood these statements to explicitly say that USA made goods should be more expensive because they are inherently better quality, and that price is the only reason to produce overseas. And as you yourself pointed out thats not true—optics and apparel being your examples, not mine. Do you know WHY your apparel is from overseas and not made in the US? Well, despite the existence of a few successful US pack companies, packs have ALL of those same factors in play.
No one said this pack was better than an exo or that your experience isnt valid. I did not say that. What I said is that its factually incorrect to say that USA made goods should necessarily be more expensive, and that USA made goods are necessarily better quality. Your pack may be an example of where thats true, no argument from me there. My objection is to the general statement, because I think its simply false to say that across the board. The reason I bothered to say it is that its genuinely hard to get many products built in the US because there simply isnt the infrastructure to do it everywhere. It is entirely likely that this company started off trying to make their products in the US, and they COULDNT DO IT. So rather than give up and let their USA EMPLOYEES go, they elected to have their product made where they could find a factory to do it. I dont know that to be true, but that is actually very normal. It does not mean I like it or that I think its the way things should be, but they would have a lot of good company, and good quality company as well. Exo ended up buying the factory where they have their goods produced in order to make the arrangement work long-term. Not every company is in a position to buy another business or start and run a separate business on the side to have their products made…what do you suppose those companies do when they cannot find a place to have their goods made in the US? (You do know that VERY few companies in that space produce their own goods, right?)
Do you happen to know a lot of asian sew shop employees? I know a few. Your generalization is not universally correct.
Look, I think its great that you prefer to buy USA made. Im not trying to fault you for this or blame you for winding up with a pack you arent happy with. Its the vilifying of this company who doesnt seem to be marketing usa made at all that Im objecting to, because I know some of the reasons why they may very well have made that change, and as of the 2020’s most of them arent based on price.
