Would you pay more for a motherboard if it was made in your own country??

[Kaieye]

Lets say for example, would you pay approx. 50% more for a motherboard if it was made where you reside?? And especially if support from the motherboard manufacturer improved a great deal??

Would you pay??

For myself, no...


Thanks for reading!


Kaieye

 

[her209]

I think 50% is a lot.

 

[Geekbabe]

I'll pay more for a MB only if it has features I need and want.. no matter where it was made

 

[Dudd]

No. Why would I buy local when it's made much more efficiently overseas? I don't care where a product is made. I'm not one of those people who are always telling you to buy American because, quite frankly, we are not the best at everything. If Korea can make something better than us, than I'll buy Korean, and hopefully our resources which were used to inefficiently make that product will be shifted to something that we can make efficiently.

 

[dpm]

Nope.
But then i'm cheap..

Anyway, you get the best support from forums like this...

 

[n0cmonkey]

If the quality was comparable I would consider it. Why pump money into other nations when we obviously need the help here?

 

[Chaotic42]

50%? No.
10%? Sure.

 

[vi edit]

I'd buy from a local, private vendor first.

 

[Kaieye]

I am seeing at many forums and newsgroups about how come these motheboard manufacturers don't reply in PERFECT english and within SIX hrs when these novices have problems. I suspect that a lot of perfectly good motherboard's are getting returned because of the inability of the person assembling PC's. A lot of these folks shouldn't be handling a philips screwdriver...


Just venting.



Kaieye

 

[vi edit]

I am seeing at many forums and newsgroups about how come these motheboard manufacturers don't reply in PERFECT english and within SIX hrs when these novices have problems.

I don't have problems with a Tawain motherboard manufacturer not speaking good english - but I DO have a problem with the CSR at a retailer here in the state barely being able to write an intelligible sentence.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Dudd
No. Why would I buy local when it's made much more efficiently overseas? I don't care where a product is made. I'm not one of those people who are always telling you to buy American because, quite frankly, we are not the best at everything. If Korea can make something better than us, than I'll buy Korean, and hopefully our resources which were used to inefficiently make that product will be shifted to something that we can make efficiently.

 

[geno]

nope

 

[mrCide]

motherboards arent guitars..

 

[dpm]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

I am seeing at many forums and newsgroups about how come these motheboard manufacturers don't reply in PERFECT english and within SIX hrs when these novices have problems.

I don't have problems with a Tawain motherboard manufacturer not speaking good english - but I DO have a problem with the CSR at a retailer here in the state barely being able to write an intelligible sentence.

They probably learnt their language skills on online forums.... they PWN J00!

 

[FoBoT]

no

what would be the point?

you think the people that work at motherboard factories in other countries don't have kids to feed too?

 

[CubicZirconia]

I'd pay a little bit more, but there's no way I'd pay 50% more.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: Dudd
No. Why would I buy local when it's made much more efficiently overseas? I don't care where a product is made. I'm not one of those people who are always telling you to buy American because, quite frankly, we are not the best at everything. If Korea can make something better than us, than I'll buy Korean, and hopefully our resources which were used to inefficiently make that product will be shifted to something that we can make efficiently.

Efficiently? Cheaper, yeah, because they take advantage of the people there. Far fetched maybe, but check out some facts about the Max Havelaar Organization.

 

[Mem]

Would you pay more for a motherboard if it was made in your own country??

What would be the point ,even if it was made in your own country where do you think all the parts come from ,my answer is a firm NO.

 

[HappyPuppy]

No. I wouldn't pay anything extra, especially for service. I have never called a help desk for hardware or software to solve a problem I was having with my personal PC's. On a professional level I call help desks all the time because I'm too busy to spend the time troubleshooting it myself. The help desk numbers I call are all back door numbers and I rarely have to wait more than 30 seconds to get a top level tech.

 

[Booster]

Would you pay more for a motherboard if it was made in your own country??

Frankly, no. I wouldn't take a free motherboard if I knew it was made in 'my' country. I once had a moboard assembled in the city where I live, I got it cheap, what a POS! I can't describe how many problems I had with it. I don't have anything against people in the East and I don't mind paying them the money they deserve. Unfortunately, domestic people and the state consume a hefty amount of money I pay for the moboard (retail stores :|, taxes :| :|).

 

[burnedout]

Depends on the performance and flexibility.

Went down that road 3x with Supermicro between 5-6 years ago. The first, a P5STE with HX chipset was well worth the investment. The second, a P5MMA with TX chipset, was a qualified POS. Finally, the P6SLA, purchased in late 1997, still runs in a computer built for my daughter.

 

[Staples]

Maybe 20% but 50% is quite high. For the amount of these they pump out per employee, I do not see the reason labor costs would actually cause them to jack up the price this much. I pay more for Craftsman and Stanly and they are made in the US (and they actually last a lot longer than cheap tools out of China). However unlike tools that break, motherboards rarely break now even though they are made in Taiwan.

 

[vi edit]

I still maintain that if you really want to help, buy from a local, private owned merchant. Not off the internet to some retailer 100's, if not 1000's of miles away from you.

 

[amdskip]

nope, I'm a poor college student