Originally Posted by
stryper
For one it's the most commonly used bulb in high powered LEDs, a CREE 5w. For two the seller has 1159 feedbacks left and only 8 have been negative. That's a pretty damn good turn around.
You can live your life in fear of anything that isn't name brand and enjoy paying 5x the price for everything you use, but personally I'm going to trust people (I know stupid decision) and have a pocket full of dollar bills and daisies. And if a few things do break here and there, I can replace them since I spent so little in the first place.
Heck I remember only 3-4 years ago when Leader wasn't name brand either. Everybody was worry about this, heard that, nay say nay say. Now they are the most repped bike frame on the forum behind the kilo. Same with H+son when they first came out and everyone saw the taco rim. It worried me since I ordered the rims first thing when they came out and they were shipping when that pic surfaced, but low and behold not a single other defect has been brought to light in any of their rims.
So let's ponder this further. Chinese are the worlds leaders at pirating software, spam, malware, and viruses, they probably wouldn't know how to make their positive response ratio high though right? Wait, that's just the fear in me speaking out.
And lets compare a USA manufacture called Leader to a Chinese manufacture who are constantly changing their names due to bad workmanship and fraud business practices. Good comparison.
H+Son rims are not tacoing just splitting apart, but that bad rap came as a result of a skidding contest popular in Japan where they will skid well over 200 meters; and some of the champ skidders use nitrogen gas to fill the tires with, the tire exploded first, which is common in these contest, then the rim failed which may have been caused by excessive heat in one area. At least that's what I recall hearing about that particular rim failure.