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PC cooling manufacturer Der8auer got scammed by a copper supplier (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/reallyshittycopper@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

There was a reason it was cheap - have you learned your lesson?

A contract is a contract is a contract. It sounds like you think they intended to have the other party be in beach of their contract. I doubt they are even on the fediverse to see your comment scolding them like a toddler, so why would you even include that?

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    A contract is only good if it is enforceable. If you order from China through something like alibaba, you have zero enforcement capacity. The only hope you have is that they will honor their contracts so people willl keep doing business with them. But there's plenty of examples of that not happening so it's pretty stupid to rely on it for a big order ('big' being defined by how much you can afford to lose).

    You can speak in the second person to emphasize a point even if the audience isn't the specific target. It's a writing style; sorry if it offended you.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Believe me, it's a lot more than your writing style that offends.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    You may not like their writing style but they have a point. I worked at a place where China made wearable components for machines. The material was an aluminum bronze alloy, every once in a while they'd slip in a batch of steel painted to look like aluminum bronze, and hope nobody caught it before full payment

    And a family member worked at a major heavy equipment manufacturer that had axles made in China. It goes well for a while and then they secretly change material or heat treat process, and you find out 12 months down the road when all your equipment suddenly had a high failure rate in the field.

    My Asian friends said its part of the culture there: to do what you think you can get away with.

    I can't verify that since I haven't lived there, but even their government tries to scam people from other countries.

    Take a looke at the European standarda logo on electronic and lighting equipment and compare to Chinese export logo. They are deliberately designed to trick a person.

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