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06-25-2012
Bought a pair of 2004 grand prix headlights for a club member from eBay. Great pricing, quick shipping.
Installed the headlights everything snapped into place correctly so I was please and so was she, this was a couple of days ago. I Just got a text this morning saying one of the headlights flew out the housing on the highway!! Aarggh!!!!!!
DAMN YOU EBAY AND YOUR CHEAP CHINESE KNOCKOFFS!!!!
Rant done. Ugh. For now.
06-25-2012
Sorry for you and your friend's inconvenience but that's funny. I can just see that thing flying over her roof and she's like - "was that Moth Man that just flew over?..and he took out my headlight. Damn!".
Don't blame China. It's corporate America jamming all of this s**t down our throats. The next time you go to Walmart take notice of the selection of any one particular item. All Chinese, all junk. Why?..You ask. Well I'll tell you why.
The buyer (bulk from China) pays $0.25/pc
Walmart sells it to you for $10.00
We (the average cheap a$$ American) are stupid enough to think it's a good deal
You take it home and commence to breaking it and ***** up a storm
You go buy another one for $10.00
Now you have $20.00 wrapped up into something that Walmart only paid $0.50 for
I love Walmart's PR crap - Save Money, Live Better - Really?
How about this? - Waste your money, Walton's live high on the hog - Blam!
It' all about numbers, stupidity and most of all GREED.
These box stores dare not sell a good product right next to their scrap. The higher quality product won't be that much more expensive but the profit margin is minuscule in comparison. Most people would buy the better product given the chance. Walmart forces you to buy the junk by not making the good stuff available.
Walmart's slogan should be "We Sell You Junk And Only Junk Because It's The Most Efficient Way To Rip You Off"
To add, I know a buyer. When he retired he was making 800K/year and he was laughing about the aforementioned. Yes, laughing, like all the way to bank laughing.
Did you get me started?
06-25-2012
Rico, why don't you tell us how you really feel??!!
06-25-2012
Don't blame it on chinese knockoffs you get what you pay for and i'm willing to bet you didn't install them 100% correct or forget to verify the headlight tab was all the way down.
06-25-2012
You would Lose that bet easily.
I'm more than 1000% percent sure the headlight was installed correctly and the tab was pushed down. I'm contributing this incident to Inferior design of cheap eBay knockoffs. I've had no issue with eBay items before but sometimes you get a product that slips past full testing and may not be up to full specifications. I've contacted the seller and they have agreed to send out a new pair free of charge.
Thanks for everyone's comments especially you Rico because that really does shed light into the issue.
06-25-2012
and do you still have the plastic headlight tabs or do you have the metal ones.
06-25-2012
hahahaha. This is why I dont go to walmart.Originally Posted by Rico
Sorry for you and your friend's inconvenience but that's funny. I can just see that thing flying over her roof and she's like - "
Don't blame China. It's corporate America jamming all of this s**t down our throats. The next time you go to Walmart take notice of the selection of any one particular item. All Chinese, all junk. Why?..You ask. Well I'll tell you why.
The buyer (bulk from China) pays $0.25/pc
Walmart sells it to you for $10.00
We (the average cheap a$$ American) are stupid enough to think it's a good deal
You take it home and commence to breaking it and ***** up a storm
You go buy another one for $10.00
Now you have $20.00 wrapped up into something that Walmart only paid $0.50 for
I love Walmart's PR crap - Save Money, Live Better - Really?
How about this? - Waste your money, Walton's live high on the hog - Blam!
It' all about numbers, stupidity and most of all GREED.
These box stores dare not sell a good product right next to their scrap. The higher quality product won't be that much more expensive but the profit margin is minuscule in comparison. Most people would buy the better product given the chance. Walmart forces you to buy the junk by not making the good stuff available.
Walmart's slogan should be "We Sell You Junk And Only Junk Because It's The Most Efficient Way To Rip You Off"
To add, I know a buyer. When he retired he was making 800K/year and he was laughing about the aforementioned. Yes, laughing, like all the way to bank laughing.
Did you get me started?
06-25-2012
The best part is I worked for Walmart for 3 weeks while between jobs during their orientation they tried to tell us that Walmart only makes between two and five cent profit on every item sold. That's why they have to pay there workers so little. Worse part is out of 25 of us only me and another guy did not believe them shows you the level of people they hire for the Walmart family, and that was the thrill to some of these guys being part of "the family" PLEASE Charles Manson had a better family
06-25-2012
The car has the white clips.
06-25-2012
My heart is always on my sleeve when talking about this subject. I hope most people feel the same way.Rico, why don't you tell us how you really feel??!!
What the hell happened to high quality American manufacturing?
Walmart - that's what happened. These box stores are ruining our country with low pay and huge corporate profits.
When I want to buy something I have to look far and wide for something of quality. Sometimes I cant' even find what I'm looking for.
Someone needs to open a chain called Made In America. All products will be of high quality and sourced from the lower 48. I'll finally have a place to shop. Who knows, maybe these guys already exist. Give me directions...
06-25-2012
Sounds like install error. My 05 has chinese headlights (purchased by the previous owner, installed by me after replacing the front end) and I've taken it well over 90mph without a single problem.
Originally Posted by W-Body Store
06-26-2012
Made in America Store
Store's about 40 minutes from where I live. ABC did a whole story on them on the evening news when they were doing their made in America series.
06-26-2012
mine to. those knockoffs were way cheaper then oem and worked from what I can tell the same.
OP-would of helped if you had the metal brackets in it that replaced the plastic ones and you'll have no headlight bounce. Sucks about the situation tho but glad it wasn't worse
06-26-2012
Very strange browsing that site knowing everything is made hear.
We're their newest clientèle.
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