Comment by pixelesque
9 months ago
I suspect the vast majority of customers will go with the cheaper option, unless there's a quality advantage for the more expensive one (which I don't think there is in this case?).
There's also a difference between "made in" and "assembled in" in other cases (but not sure that applies in this case?).
I favor “made in [almost any OECD state]” (not just the USA) for goods I care about and plan to have a long time precisely because it’s a decent quality marker. It doesn’t make sense to shave a few pennies on materials and processes here and there when labor’s so expensive that you can’t compete on price anyway.
If you just tell me, or imply that, “these are identically made and QC’d, and made with the same amount and quality of materials, but made in two different countries” I’ll just take the cheaper one. Especially if the price difference is as large as in this experiment, JFC.