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Originally Posted by crashed
The argument that most companies are making in stating that "well we outsource everything in order to make things cheaper for you to buy", is generally a bogus one...
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Uh. No.
A lot of companies exist solely to market outsourced products; they provide the specifications, the brand, distribution and marketing, and their ODM *partners* supply the products.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origina...n_manufacturer
No outsourcing, no company.
And if they can't sell the product at the outsourced price they can't exist either.
Vizio is the current poster child for a successful business built on this model... |
Wait a second, fjt! I believe you are misusing the term "outsourced".
I understand outsourcing to occur when a company stops doing something in the US, and has it done overseas instead.
If the company never did the action in the US, then that's not outsourcing. It sounds to me like Vizio is merely an importer of goods made to its specs. Those goods aren't outsourced; they're just imports.
That's not what crashed was talking about.
(My biggest pet peeve regarding outsourcing are the companies who laid off Americans at their call centers, and replaced them with Indians and Orientals whom I can't understand over the phone.)