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Originally Posted by TarJak (Post 1622003)

Either Chinese labour is really really cheap or American labour is really really expensive. You work it out.:03:

Nope, its because China has no environmental regulations
And face it, shims are made by machines, the labor involved is minimal

Also, blame the shipping companies, for making shipping so cheap

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie (Post 1622044)

I was figuring it was cheap Chinese labor because they could have always sent the lumber to someplace closer with cheap labor like Mexico, Guatemala or the Dominican Republic, but yet they still chose faraway China.

From pictures, Im guessing the situation in china is this:
- No labor unions
- No regulations
- No EPA.

I'll bet in china, the situation probably a throwback to the industrial revolution. You know, back before child labor laws and the like. In short, its probably a corporate paradise.

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Originally Posted by the_tyrant (Post 1622053)

And face it, shims are made by machines, the labor involved is minimal

Yeah, thats not lost on me. You can make them by hand, most defiantly, but if your mass producing something, it's machined, or at the very least, you have one fancy jig set up.

Well, I guess if you have to bang on about poor quality lumber products...

SubShim's the place to do it.

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Originally Posted by Growler (Post 1622410)

Well, I guess if you have to bang on about poor quality lumber products...

SubShim's the place to do it.

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