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I don't believe this. I think western companies simply have higher QA standards so they qualify to be imported and this results in higher quality even if the product is manufactured in China. Meanwhile products for the Chinese market must pass less stringent QA. A company that would sell products that don't pass QA is committing fraud.

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so you believe that the close to 50% of factory output that doesn't pass QA gets destroyed or fixed by a company in China, instead of selling it on ebay? oh my sweet summer child..

yes, it gets sold on the Chinese market as well. but we're talking about someone in the west buying the same component from China on ebay, that they would buy at a store in the west. It's the same component - it's just one that didn't pass QA to make it to the store here.

Yes, the "company" selling these products is committing fraud. welcome to china.

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