China's factories get desperate as orders drop

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — Desperate for new customers, Chinese factories have been bombarding Josef Jelinek with e-mails everyday. One wants the British businessman to order a shipment of whirling toy helicopters. Another touts a multimedia gizmo called the V-disk.

"They've been coming thick and heavy over the last few months. This never happened before," he said.

Jelinek has no interest in toys or electronics. His main job is scouring China for lead pipes and other construction materials for a shopping mall project in Cairo.

The blind, mass-mailing approach targeting him, however, highlights the growing anxiety among Chinese exporters as they near a crucial period — the time when they get the bulk of their orders for the summer season and Christmas.

The early signs are pointing to a bleak year. The phones aren't ringing. Web sites aren't getting clicks. Old customers aren't visiting plants.



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[4dsc]

1. Even more reason to quit buying their CRAP!!

I know that's its really hard to avoid buying anything these days that isn't made in china. But I go out of my way to make sure I try and find a product that isn't make there if I need to purchase something..

Especially quit buying all the crappy plastic toys..

[bitchkitty]

5. Best way to fight is to buy local.

And NOT from a WalMart or KMart.

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. If they hadn't tried to poison all of us.

I won't even buy my dog toys if they were made in China. I figure if they sprayed children's toys with lead paint think what they would do to dog toys.

[EnviroBat]

3. They will start drowning in their own shit soon...

I've become so frustrated with everything I look at being made in China, that I've just stopped buying shit all together.

America Needs Jobs!

[onehandle]

4. Oh no!

:nopity:

[OhioChick]

8. May I join you?

:nopity:

[endless october]

6. unless Chinese factories adopt OSHA

and pollution controls, we should tariff the imports. time to bring manufacturing back to the US.

[acmavm]

7. Funny, people poisoned by cheap junk manufactured by slave

labor. Why wouldn't we be flooding their market with orders????

:sarcasm: