Super User dodgeguy Posted January 8, 2009 Super User Posted January 8, 2009 after losing my manufacturing job(plant shut down went to china)and only earning 2/3rds what I made 5-10 years ago I do not buy made in china products unless I can find no alternatives. I try for made in USA, but other democratic countries with open markets like Japan or Western Europe is ok too. If we dont all start boycotting all the cheap china crap we will all be working at WalMart for $7 bucks an hour selling their products. japan is not an open market at all.look at how they tax our cars that go over there.and we are stupid enough to let them in here without doing the same!!! Quote
skno Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 If at all possible MADE IN USA. No sweat shops for me. I live here,work here and I am going to insert my money back into the local economy if possible. Now if ardent could just get that new baitcaster up to par. Quote
SwimbaitDave Posted January 8, 2009 Author Posted January 8, 2009 I just emailed Loomis and asked if all of their rods are made in the USA, and they emailed back "Yes all of our rods are made in Woodland, WA USA". So that makes me feel better about laying out the money for a new CBR906. Quote
Super User roadwarrior Posted January 8, 2009 Super User Posted January 8, 2009 I just found this on their website (FAQs):3. Where are your rods built? All of our rods and blanks are hand crafted here in Woodland, Washington. 8-) Quote
Super User grimlin Posted January 8, 2009 Super User Posted January 8, 2009 It's a very,very tough job trying to find just "Made in USA" in just about everything you buy.It's like trying to find a job here....almost impossible. I find that very,very sad....because that's what's killing us right now. That being said,i do try to buy products made in U.S. as much as i can. I agree with dodgeguy..we need to start taxing that *** on other countries.Soon as we do the prices rise and more people will start thinking about buying American products here because it will be cheaper.We need to start thinking about us and not everybody else across the country.We've always be relying on other products and it needs to stop. Quote
The_Natural Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 Just an FYI, but any product that is made or assembled overseas must be labeled with the country of origin or it will not make it through customs. Clothes....it's on the tag. Rods....generally a sticker. Also, I want to buy american, but I also want the best product possible. I don't feel the fishing market is being taken over by overseas products. We are seeing a spike in rods and reels made overseas, but there are a bunch still made here. Quote
adclem Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 Even though rods like Loomis, St Croix etc.. are made here in the USA they still use parts from other countries. Correct me if I am wrong but Fuji parts which most rods use are not made in the USA. But yes I prefer products made or at least assembled in the USA. Later, Quote
BassinSoldier Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 Functionality and quality are what I look for. Quote
Super User Raul Posted January 8, 2009 Super User Posted January 8, 2009 "Made in USA" rods, affect your decision? NO I simply won 't purchase a rod just because it says MADE IN USA, if it 's junk MADE IN USA won 't make it better. Quote
Ern Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 I could care less of where it is made. If it serves the purpose of its design the way I want it to and is good quality I will buy it. Why pay more for a Made in the USA label and get a lesser value in the product. Start looking at where the owners of the Made in USA products are (i.e. Shimano owns G Loomis and now Power Pro) and the Tag looses its Value. Ern Quote
dave Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 "Made in USA" rods, affect your decision?NO I simply won 't purchase a rod just because it says MADE IN USA, if it 's junk MADE IN USA won 't make it better. YES, but with the same clarification. Quote
MitchIsFishin Posted January 9, 2009 Posted January 9, 2009 RW, I don't know. Both of my GL2's had the tags on them & each tag said 'components made in USA, assembled in China', so made in china? Quote
Super User Fishing Rhino Posted January 9, 2009 Super User Posted January 9, 2009 It's an International Market Place now. Computers,rapid transportation and modernized shipping as well as a modern communication system have the whole world in the market, Rather than bemoan it , it would do us good as a nation to figure out how to be the major player in it. It is happening whether we like it or not, we all better get used to it and learn how to work it to our advantage. Spot on!!!!!! It seems that all of a sudden we are concerned about buying American. The "outsourcing" started long before many on here were born. Most of the electronic manufacturing departed this country decades ago. Shoes? The same thing. Brockton, the home of Rocky Marciano, was once the shoe capital of the world. Today, it is a shell of what it once was. Fall River, New Bedford, Haverhill, Lowell, Lawrence, once major textile centers turned from boom towns to ghost towns when the textile mills moved to the South, beginning in the early 1900s, or early middle of the 1900s. My maternal grandfather was a mill superintendent in a Fall River mill. The mill moved to Georgia in the '30s. He could have kept his job, but it would have necessitated him moving to Georgia. He agreed to go to Georgia to help get the mill up and running, but once operational, he would retire to his home in Mass. He was a widower, and took one of his daughters with him. She met, and married a good ol' Georgia boy. A year later, I was born. Furniture sold in the Hickory, NC area used to be made there. Most of those factories are now closed, and the furniture is being made outside of the country, a lot of it in China. Our Drexel House dining room set came from China. These and other businesses were outsourced long before there was even a mention of Gatt, NAFTA and all the other trade agreements. Heck, my 2007 GMC pickup was assembled in Mexico. What provides more jobs for Americans? Me buying an "American product" made in Mexico, or buying a "foreign product" made in the states? While I do not like these events, it is reality. It is easier for an American company to move its operations overseas today than it was for the textile mills of the Northeast to move to the South decades ago. Consider, those mills moved to the South for the exact same reasons companies move their manufacturing overseas today, to remain competitive in the marketplace. Quote
Tennessee Cattleman Posted January 9, 2009 Posted January 9, 2009 First & foremost I must like the rod. I try hard to buy U.S.A. made products when the quality is good & the price is reasonable. My newest rod is a U.S.A. made St. Croix, which I really like. The standard of living in the U.S. is bound to fall when so many of the new jobs being created today are at fast food restaurants & large chain retail stores. Quote
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