POSITIVE:  The low prices offered by the Chinese Trading companies and junk exporters are unrivaled by any brand name scale.  This has forced the name brand companies to lower their prices in order to stay competitive.  Increased competition in a marketplace is always a good thing.  This is the very premise behind the free market economy of North America.

NEGATIVE:  The no-name scales are usually terrible quality and only last for a short while.  Since these companies are not "real" scale companies they don't stand behind their products.  They sometimes offer false warrantees to try and seem more like a real company.  For example,  one small Chinese Trading company (with a tiny office in the US) offers a 5 year warranty.  However if you send your scale in for warranty repair you won't receive anything back.  We call this the "Black Hole Warranty" or non-existent warranty meant to just convince you to purchase the off-brand scale.

At Digital Scales.com,  scales are part of our lives.  It pains us to see these small junk importers and exporters push their low quality merchandise on the unsuspecting public.    We get at least one email each day from people claiming to be a "large Chinese scale manufacturer" who offers us incredible deals such as "we can sell you digital pocket scales for $6".   However it has been our experience that these scales are honestly and truly - 100% JUNK.   As scale enthusiasts, we always ask these companies to send us samples.  Around half of the samples usually don't work at all and the other half are often terrible quality.  We also get many emails from store owners who tell us how they had received an amazing sample from a Chinese trading company, but when they ordered 500 pcs they were mostly junk and....

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