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I'm good with cranky people, I am one most of the time. I still have a few more years till retirement so I remember the good old days too. I work for an OEM supplier to the automotive industry (my night job) and I know that our "made in USA" products are an accumulation of parts from all over the world and that when we receive finished product from our Japanese parent company and repackage it to go to US customers a "made in USA" label is stuck on the box. Conversely when we ship our US made products to Japan they do the same thing after changing the packaging. You tell the customers what they want to hear.
I can say that it was seeing the 250EX in a lot of Jody's videos that convinced me to go that way. It was especially apparent to me because he uses it on a lot of his videos where the brand isn't mentioned and the welder isn't the subject of the video. The other deciding factor was the lack of negative comments on the internet. There's no shortage of negative comments on everything else on the net but I couldn't find anyone complaining about anything but shipping times and most of those were during the dock workers strike in CA a year or two ago.
I can say that it was seeing the 250EX in a lot of Jody's videos that convinced me to go that way. It was especially apparent to me because he uses it on a lot of his videos where the brand isn't mentioned and the welder isn't the subject of the video. The other deciding factor was the lack of negative comments on the internet. There's no shortage of negative comments on everything else on the net but I couldn't find anyone complaining about anything but shipping times and most of those were during the dock workers strike in CA a year or two ago.