...I just wanted to give Cat Driver something else to think about. Perhaps one reason the Chinese are so willing to take on a new invention is so they can get the design info. Then they can start copying it and put it on the market cheaper than the patent holder since the Chinese dont recognize US patent laws, they can flood the market with your product in the coming months. Better enjoy your profits while you can.
I never have one company do ALL the items in my invention. I have several companies do various parts. I do final assembly or boxing here.
Some Chines do rip people off, but mostly it's hard for the Chinese to market and distribute so they stick to what they know and that's manufacturing and even try and protect their customers. A few times I have seen a product that I want to purchase on a Chinese site and they write back and say sorry not for North American sales, or Sorry World patents we will not sell etc.
...Like I said, a lot of us are paying attention and making choices on where to buy our products. Nobody is faulting you for wanting to be more profitable, but don't fault us when we stop buying your Chinese-made products.
In theory statements like this are all well and good, and I was so against foreign products that I would never buy them, then I realized who am I kidding nothing is made here any more that I purchase.
Am I NOT going to buy blue jeans for $14.00 at Costco or am I going to buy Levis for $39.50. They look the same last as long who am I kidding when I can buy three pair - why buy one pair, to make a point.
OH BUT WAIT, the company that Mr.Levi Strauss started during the Gold Rush is now being made overses.
Then when I want an all American Hersey bar from Hershey Pennsylvania , OH WAIT that great American company is now making chocolate overseas.
Cars and parts made overseas, TV's overseas, and on and on and on. I don't have the time or energy any more to figure out who makes what where.
So either I and you purchase NOTHING at all or we purchase things made overseas. See it's just not practical for a few people to not purchase foreign goods and it just not effective when so many more millions will. We are out numbered.
One can keep fighting it or like they say if you can't beat em JOIN EM.
Last point on why Americans won't succeed by not buying overseas. There are not enough of "US" Americans left, with all the foreigners here they will do what they want and could care less what real American do or don't do and since a lot are from China and Japan they will always support there home land. Have you notice who mostly buys Toyotas?