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Is no one else a bit skeptical about the quality of the products? Having 1 person eyeball PCB connectors with tweezers doesn't look like good manufacturing and probably prone to shorts.

http://bunniestudios.com/blog/images/mic_skill.jpg

I don't know about everyone else, but I would rather pay the extra $0.95 out of a $119.95 chumby.

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No, because that one person, having placed thousands of connectors, is most likely better at the job than you or anyone you know. Also, these are connectors - it'd be obvious in testing if they didn't work.

Not everything is reliably tested a couple days after manufacturing. many people have had capacitors gone bad right after warranty, and just because the manufacturer wanted to save $2-3 dollars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

If your suppliers are like this, there is no telling what they will do to cut costs. A cursory test right out of production is not panacea.

Hindsight is 20-20.

and since I write some thousand lines of code every day I don't need anyone to review it.

Also, I'm writting code for a crucial part of the project, so it would be obvious if it don't work. So no silly unit test or anything.

I think you can trust that any quality problems are quickly identified long before any products leave the factory. Read up on the MicroSD failure blog post on the same blog for an interesting story.

I'd say quality is more determined by the regulatory policies and the accepted standards of the country rather than individual attention/inattention to detail.

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