{"id":119,"date":"2007-04-09T09:29:58","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2023-02-22T09:40:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:40:30","slug":"price-versus-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/09\/price-versus-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Price versus quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to write this entry based on the last\u00a0couple of weeks.\u00a0 We here at CCS\u00a0always try to stay on top of the newest trends&#8230;especially when it comes to scales.\u00a0 So I had a new lower priced import scale shipped in here so we could evaluate it.<\/p>\n<p>Every distributor\u00a0in all kinds of industries\u00a0attempt to come up with lower priced<!--more--> items to offer their customers in addition to the standard high quality items.\u00a0 If you do find a new\u00a0low priced item to offer, it could mean more sales, larger market share, happier customers, etc&#8230; and etc&#8230;. However, over the last couple of years, I&#8217;ve found that more and more of these &#8220;low cost&#8221; import options have some serious issues.<\/p>\n<p>Many arrive in marginal packaging. Many arrive weighing incorrectly. Many don&#8217;t hold calibration. Many don&#8217;t function or operate\u00a0like their supposed to. And many, many\u00a0require the user to practically know a foreign language to be able to read the manual.<\/p>\n<p>The point of the entry is this. We will always try to offer you nice, affordable, reliable, economical scale options. Even our most trusted scales and brands (both domestic and import)\u00a0fail from time to time. However, if we don&#8217;t feel\u00a0a\u00a0item(s) is up to a certain standard, we&#8217;re not going to offer it.\u00a0 Sure, it may cost us a few sales from time to time&#8230;. but we want our customer&#8217;s to have scales that are economical and reliable and for our customer&#8217;s to feel they got the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/14\/what-makes-a-weighing-scale-better-quality-than-another\/\">best &#8220;balance&#8221; of value and performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to write this entry based on the last\u00a0couple of weeks.\u00a0 We here at CCS\u00a0always try to stay on top of the newest trends&#8230;especially when it comes to scales.\u00a0 So I had a new lower priced import scale shipped in here so we could evaluate it. Every distributor\u00a0in all kinds of industries\u00a0attempt to come\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/09\/price-versus-quality\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,6,12,5,7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-balances","category-bench-scales","category-crane-and-hanging","category-digital-weight-indicators","category-floor-scales","category-price-computing-scales","category-shipping-scales"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}