Summary: I should be able to buy a reasonably luxurious automobile from China for only the Chinese cost of raw materials, I'd guess <$2000.00.
It seems the Chinese want to give away their manufactured goods for less than the cost of shipping alone! This is quite astounding to me. Hey, if they want to give away stuff, I'm happy to receive it. I was able to build up a fairly well equipped machine shop to build my second helicopter for very little money. There's no way I could have afforded all these tools and materials before Harbor Freight Tools opened their stores. As I have previously posted, my color laser printer failed which cost ~$500 a few years ago and I dismantled it. If the military had ordered one of these, it would have cost millions. I replaced it with an HP color laser printer which cost <$250.00, and it's better and more complicated. Then my 17 year old thermal fax machine failed. I found a new Brother color fax machine for <$60.00 ! It includes a scanner, printer, copier also! In '70's dollars, the price would have been about $10.00 since the dollar is so lowly valued these days. If this trend keeps up, I should be able to buy a personal superconducting supercollider for a few thousand dollars soon. Something just "doesn't compute" about all this" Hoyt Stearns Scottsdale, Arizona US http://HoytStearns.com
