Terminology translated

[pgkevet]

Made in china: Made in china
American made: Made in china, packet in the states by underpaid mexicans who can't count
British designed: made in China, packed in Wolverhampton by outworkers that can't count.
German engineering; made in germany from Chinese alloys and overpriced

Upgrades: We didn't design it right first time
Sacrificial parts: We didn't make it strong enough
High quality: Same chinese parts with spin
Hand finished: Too mean to buy a good machine

You get what you pay for: For gullible mugs only
Flybar weights: We didn't design it right or can't make paddles
Tunable head: See if you can do better than us.. we messed up

Flybarless head: Yup, we're going to charge you even more for less and hope someone else can get it to fly.

Carbon frame: Glass fibre frame with some soot in the resin. Made in china
Alloy parts: Yeah, well we melted all those white goods down and had a mess of stuff to use. We call it pot metal.

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[Jamin_00]

Very good

[JohnJ]

Would be even funnier if it wern't true

[asomaro]

Spot on.

[Hangar-7]

Very good - I think this is "Salesman/ person's Talk" and it applies to anything you buy.