Joseph Coniglio on thu 20 may 04
PLEASE BE WARE...STANDARDS ARE NOT BEING MET BY KNOCK
OFF IMPORTS!! IN SOME CASES WHEN YOU SHOP YOU NO
LONGER HAVE A CHOICE. IT'S PROBABLY MADE IN CHINA.
Adjusting for fit, adding the carbon filter and going with HEPA standard
to start with is a very good idea.
HEPAS are the purple ones. The filters used to be color coded and
HEPAS were always purple on the shelf as a no-brainer. But now that
you can buy deceptively ingenious exports from China all bets are off
that are purple and do not meet ISO standards. Now HEPA has to say
HEPA ISO codes.
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Anyone have new glaze foreceps start snapping and breaking
recently? They cost the same as the old ones, but they are now from
China and are made with cheap "white metal slag" hidden under
chrome plate instead of steel like they should be. Remember the new
ones are the same price as the old ones. Watch out.
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Was at the garden center the other day and saw a hand made, hand
glazed waist high garden pot made in China. I must presume the
maker wasn't paid very much. The pot was selling for $30. It could
have been made from a mold from an hand coiled pot. That would
change things a little.
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Was in Bed and Bath the other day and came across some white cast
(for actually white underglazed) terra-cotta pasta bowls. Each hand
painted in a majorica like style portraying a chef of italian origin in a
tiled kitchen in a white chef smock,., pink cheeks, hat, handlebar
mustache and lots of detailing.
---Turned the bowl underneath: $8 Made in China.---
--Immediately grabbed another and another bowl and compared them
side by side. They were not decaled. Each one was hand painted.
On my best day I could never paint such a cute thing with any sort of
passion and nicety, and there it was, as I can imagine many a
teenage slave girl in some factory sitting there like a dirty dog painting
italian chefs in their kitchens for export. $8. What was the mark up?
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