Chinese knockoffs.

If you had a union advocating for your pay to have kept up over the years, you'd have retained your ability to afford quality American-built products. Instead, you're participating in the race to the bottom.

You first. Whatever you do for a living, somebody somewhere else can do it for less. By your own standards, you're not entitled to a living wage, so walk the walk, buddy.

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Moe DeLoughan
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Unfortunately, the more jobs that go "south" the tax burden for those still working will become greater and greater. At some point you won't be able to afford those products even at their lower prices.

That's the Reader's Digest definition of socialism.

I think what you meant to say was "I hope that ass hole from Kenya goes south to play golf and never returns." Right?

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Gordon Shumway

You mean like how the unions in Detroit advocated and bankrupted GM? While non union plants from MB, Honda, BMW and other foreign car companies build cars here in the USA profitably, employing more than GM?

Non sequitur noted. In the case of Detroit, the unions burdened them with a labor cost 2X what MB, BMW, Honda, etc are paying right here in the USA. The results were predictable. Not that it's all the unions fault, but when you have a labor cost 2X the competition, it is like trying to swim with lead boots on.

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trader_4

In the quote above it clearly says that the company is building a new factory here in the USA, near Memphis to build ovens, ranges, etc. It's not like they have abandoned the USA. But I guess you'd rather have a govt that has proven itself incompetent in virtually everything it undertakes, figure out where the right place to build kitchen appliances is. They lost $500mil down the Solyndra rat hole, when they figured out where to build solar panels. Or Ener1, that they sunk $120mil into to build car batteries, it's bankrupt, closed and the money is gone too. There's a long, long list of similar failures, if you care to look. And best of all, they were all structured with typical big govt brilliance. If the company is a success, the owners reap all the rewards, the govt gets nothing. If the company fails, the govt loses everything. What great business minds! They shouldn't be building ovens, they should be sticking their heads in ovens.

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trader_4

Let me see if I can find it again.

Here is one that claims it is an exact replacement.

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Here's another.

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No reviews on this one but clearly not GE.

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Here's another.

There are many more. So many more that opted not to buy this from Amazon at all.

Reply to
Julie Bove

I put several links up in another post but here is one:

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Julie Bove

You do realize that every UAW plant (for instance) has a two tier wage structure with new hires getting substantially less than the older dudes or that they would have 5 years. Unions by no means assure you have a job if the market forces aren't correct.

Reply to
Kurt Ullman

Used to be a brand owned by GM when GM was a reputable company. Now it is just a name that as been owned by a half dozen corporations.My company used to supply them and they made the same product under a half dozen brand names.

Reply to
Ed Pawlowski

For the above, it says in the title "Exact Replacement". To me that only means that it conforms to the correct form, fit and function. And in the description it clearly says "Generic Ers30m1 Ge Range Surface Elements" Generic sure doesn't mean GE to me.

It's like buying a heater hose for a 2005 Honda. If it's says exact replacement, it means the hose fits, nothing special needs to be done. It doesn't mean it came from Honda.

That one shows the GE logo in the crude pic and also says "genuine GE" and "by GE"in the description. If that was not a real GE part, then I agree, it's fraud. People should complain and Amazon should boot them.

That one also says "by GE", so I'd say if it's not, then it's fraud too.

I don't blame you. I have no problem buying a decent aftermarket part. In autos it's done all the time. Independent repair shops use aftermarket parts all the time. Most are perfectly fine and cost half what the genuine BMW or whatever would cost. Some are even made by the same manufacturer. But when they try to trick you into believing that it's a real GE and it's not, I say it's fraud. Of those ads, the first was honest. the other two, if they are not real GE, then I say it's fraud.

Reply to
trader_4

Don't forget they other brands and owners. Edison Electric, White-Westinghouse, Husqvarna.

Reply to
Ed Pawlowski

Hello Kitty?

Reply to
rbowman

| Beware of any appliances or parts these days. Most if not all are made | overseas. | I had to get a replacement "sparker" for a gas stove recently. It works fine. I also got a similar thing for our furnace. But I bought both from dealers that specialize in such things and have phone numbers. I would never buy anything from Amazon or EBay.

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Mayayana

That could be but people did say that it is in fact not an exact replacement as it doesn't fit right.

Yep. I agree. Alas, I saw this so many times on Amazon that I just wouldn't go that route.

Reply to
Julie Bove

I've had two!

Reply to
Julie Bove

Yep. Which is why I went straight to GE.

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Julie Bove

Moe DeLoughan wrote in news:lnvihn$tbi$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

You mean like in Detroit and soon many other cities?

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Zaky Waky

I've bought a lot of name brand from Amazon for years now and never had a problem. I have a package coming today.

eBay can be a little scarier, but I did buy a couple of ASCO air valves last month. They are $335 from a local dealer, but I got one from an eBay dealer for $200. I went back and bought another as a spare. They go bad on a 150 HP compressor every year or two.

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Ed Pawlowski

I have a nice, pink Hello Kitty notebook that I take to meetings on the off chance somebody might say something useful. Being a large, bearded, pony- tailed biker nobody ever commented on my choice.

I did get a kick out of a news story a couple of years ago. If a cop in Thailand screwed up he got to go and direct traffic wearing a Hello Kitty armband. That plan backfired when the cops sort of liked their armbands.

Reply to
rbowman

Even Nancy Pelosi could get into one of those. Hell, I don't even like ARs and I want one.

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rbowman

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