Originally Posted by froze
Quality control reps from Trek are Chinese people! Thus the quality control would be tainted. Electronics company say the same thing yet the quality of electronic products get worse the further east you get away from Japan. How much is a company going to complain when they pay workers 23 cents an hour with no benefits or lawsuits to worry about? So what something has to be warrantied, they glady warranty something they sold for 10 times what it cost to make and ship.
Taiwanese workers are not paid 23 cents per hour. Where did you hear that? Wages in Taiwan are not much lower than wages in the USA.