The GRE story sounded fishy to me. GRE couldnt see it coming? GRE couldnt find an alternative factory? Something didnt sound right.
I'm not sure GRE's factory was here but it shows you what a shady place you're dealing with there.
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So GRE was chinese? I thought it was a Japanese company.
Thanks for sharing this with us. A house of cards made to look better with smoke and mirrors. Corruption and cronyism existing in abundant amounts. This really is the history of the human race. Brings to mind the closing scene of the movie "The Hunt for Red October" where Sean Connery tells Alec Baldwin, "a little revolution now and again is a good thing, no?"
Enough philosophical nonsense. it would be good to see some industries move back to the U.S. as a result of this bubble bursting, but the effects of it on the world economy might be devastating enough to keep that from happening. Companies may not have enough capital to make a move and reestablish themselves elsewhere.
I do like my GRE scanners and the Starrsoft software. I can move data around (although not always cleanly) between the different models of scanners and if not, the different applications are very similar. There needs to be competition and I see a monopoly beginning. Then again, it might be a chance to see how Uniden scanners work, something I haven't had experience for 5 or 6 years since I put the BC-780 in the mothball section of my closet. I didn't like the software and the radio's performance and features were disappointing, especially the slow enough to be totally useless tone search. I'm glad that I live in a small rural area where Phase II is a long way off, if ever, because VHF-High is working for everyone just fine.
I will have to look into where Unden scanners are made. With such a huge amount of electronic devices being made in China there may be more fallout when this bubble bursts than we might realize. Those big screen TV's might go up in price.
While final assembly may be mostly manual, I feel quite confident that the circuit boards are populated and soldered by machine, the cases and other plastic parts are injection molded by machine, and many other component parts are made by machines.It looks like all they need is enough floor space to set up work tables and cubicles since it's mostly manual assembly and not a lot of industrial machinery...