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peter-h:
As a final post-script on this saga, I got the tool out of that gangster country and back to the UK.

A final USD 400 extortion fee had to be paid for a 30km drive.

The thing which finally worked was me telling them I will report them, for theft, to the Chinese Embassy in London, and to their local police station. I would not have expected either to have any effect but perhaps they are scared of their police.

Surprisingly, it came back undamaged. Sometimes they smash stuff up with a hammer.

Never found out the actual moulding company (this is usual down there) but I got a load of weird SMS messages from a woman working apparently in there, saying her life was being made difficult and would I please reconsider (and pay 3x the previous price, etc).

tom66:

--- Quote from: peter-h on November 26, 2021, 02:41:12 am ---Why do we use China?

Tooling: UK=£6k, China=USD3k
Mouldings: UK=£0.50, China=USD0.13 (+shipping of USD0.07)

The risk is that you are often dealing with what over here one would call criminals.

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A month of messing around for an engineer would easily pay back that extra cost in tooling.  China is only worth dealing with at high volumes and if you have someone in the country you trust who speaks both English and Chinese.

(edit: or it's worth dealing with for low volume prototypes, where a missed date is only of consequence to your project timescale, not to the solvency of a business or project!)

Simon:

--- Quote from: peter-h on August 08, 2022, 06:30:52 am ---As a final post-script on this saga, I got the tool out of that gangster country and back to the UK.

A final USD 400 extortion fee had to be paid for a 30km drive.

The thing which finally worked was me telling them I will report them, for theft, to the Chinese Embassy in London, and to their local police station. I would not have expected either to have any effect but perhaps they are scared of their police.

Surprisingly, it came back undamaged. Sometimes they smash stuff up with a hammer.

Never found out the actual moulding company (this is usual down there) but I got a load of weird SMS messages from a woman working apparently in there, saying her life was being made difficult and would I please reconsider (and pay 3x the previous price, etc).



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basically they gradually worked out as much from you as you were willing to pay. I wonder if the tooling is useable.

peter-h:
To end this story happily, I have just had a load of mouldings from the recovered tool, done here in the UK.

Never again use a chinese company for anything involving significant tooling.

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