Vise Grip moves to China Options

[stock93]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26531610/

This pisses me off. I've bought a bunch of their pliers and really like most of them. I for one won't be buying them anymore. Now if I manage to break one they're going to give me a china made replacement. If anyone wants to send them feedback here's their page http://www.irwin.com/irwin/consumer/jhtml/contactUs.jhtml
I sent them a letter myself.

John

[brer]

throw out everything in your house that says made in china on it or in it.
I dare you.

[byndbad914]

throw out everything in your house that says made in china on it or in it.
I dare you.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) we have been the largest financial contributor to China's industrial revolution and then somehow get upset after 30yrs of buying shit made in Asian countries when all of the jobs are going away.

We (in general terms) did this one to ourselves because we bitch when people move overseas, but frankly don't actually stop buying/using foreign built products. We just like to bitch but also bitch if the price is higher than those foreign ones.

Credit cards are another perfect example of things going to a completely different (tho' Asian) location. Everyone I talk to bitches about getting some "foreign bastard" on the phone and how they took an American job, but how many people have stopped using their cards and paid them off and told the banks to F off until they bring customer service back to this country??

So if you are serious about attempting to really make an impact on forcing companies to reconsider moving to China, then as Brer said, remove all foreign built products or products with foreign products inside of them from your house and only purchase all USA products, which BTW, implies shouldn't be buying any Porsche stuff either.

And don't think I somehow am glad business is moving to China/elsewhere and "unemploying" fellow Americans as that isn't the case, but this has been decades in the making. I remember being a kid in the late 70s and the stigma of seeing Made in China on items and my parents refusing to buy it and nobody drove foreign cars except a few with Subarus and people would bad mouth 'em... now it is seen as lame to drive anything but foreign - and again, did that to ourselves with shitty cars that can't make it past 100K miles. Sadly, vice grips are really, really, really low on the foreign built totem pole.