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Originally Posted by atothex 
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The reason I ask whether you're in the States is I like the idea of buying American, because the support is more readily available. I know you already have some Chinese stuff, but shipping a $500 lemon back to China just doesn't sound like a good time to me...
IF you live in the USA then it's not just support, which IS important. It's the fact that trade w/China has largely been a 1-way street and, in the long term, that's not in our best interests or future.
That's not saying buying a Chinese product is a bad thing, just that we should make an effort to find a domestically made product first for a whole host of economic/political reasons.
Check out these trade statistics:
