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Comment by captainmuon | Hacker News Reader

You get what you pay for, especially in China. Many vendors are completely upfront with this, and you have to pay extra for "good" good parts. Just like you can pay for a test certificate, but you have to pay extra if you want them to actually test your stuff - I would have expected it to be the other way around to be honest.

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Even paying extra for the good "good" part is no guarantee of honesty and quality. Unless you're a juggernaut like Apple, after a while they'll start shoving in sub-par components in the shipments to test your QA and see if they can squeeze more money out of you. It's just how they do business.

If all China manufactures are like you described, nobody would do business in China again. I'm sure there are plenty of honest Chinese suppliers.

There are plenty! The trouble is finding them. Once you do, hold on to them – they can be very valuable.

A good place to start is making sure you're paying a fair price for whatever it is you're buying. Anything too cheap is definitely trouble. (And, of course, this condition is necessary, not sufficient.)

Why are you sure? Do you have any facts / numbers / experiences?

Do you have a good QA for incoming components? If yes, you will see a pattern.

The problem is the market filters them out.. because the dishonest ones are more successful and the law does not care about foreign customers.

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