{"id":135,"date":"2008-03-14T08:13:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T15:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/14\/most-of-the-time-it-pays-to-stick-with-the-name-brand\/"},"modified":"2015-04-09T12:09:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T19:09:56","slug":"most-of-the-time-it-pays-to-stick-with-the-name-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/14\/most-of-the-time-it-pays-to-stick-with-the-name-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Most of the time it pays to stick with the name brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then we all are tempted to go with a &#8220;no name&#8221;\u00a0item as opposed to a proven product that is made by a manufacturer that you know.\u00a0 Whether it is a food product, clothes, television or yes&#8230;.even a scale, there are &#8220;no\u00a0name&#8221; products out there. Most of course are imported from overseas.\u00a0 In fact, in today&#8217;s world of cheap imports, they are definitely out there.\u00a0 Some pretty good&#8230;some alright and some are downright <!--more-->awful.\u00a0 How do you know what you&#8217;ll ultimately get from overseas if there is no US manufacturer\u00a0to oversee and demand quality?<\/p>\n<p>The point of today&#8217;s entry is that sometimes\u00a0even though the no\u00a0name products sound good and are a great value, you have to\u00a0think about the long haul.\u00a0 In the long run how is that product going to stack up against the known item?\u00a0 A lot of the no name or names you&#8217;ve never heard of\u00a0don&#8217;t really have a track record at all.\u00a0 So, you really don&#8217;t have a definite idea how good\u00a0the item will be.\u00a0 Compare that to the proven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/Ohaus-Balances.htm\">balances from Ohaus<\/a>. To sum up the entry today, we were talking with a scale distributor in the US and he told us of a decision he made to stop offering a certain product that he was importing from overseas.\u00a0 The reason?\u00a0 Quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then we all are tempted to go with a &#8220;no name&#8221;\u00a0item as opposed to a proven product that is made by a manufacturer that you know.\u00a0 Whether it is a food product, clothes, television or yes&#8230;.even a scale, there are &#8220;no\u00a0name&#8221; products out there. Most of course are imported from overseas.\u00a0 In\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/14\/most-of-the-time-it-pays-to-stick-with-the-name-brand\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-balances"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","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=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}