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Originally Posted by Drbrown
We're on a down hill slope. Bought a Timken wheel bearing (thinking top-of-the-line). Came in their Timken box but marked made by FAG in Canada. Adding injury to deception, Timken marked up FAG's (US) retail cost (literally) 200 %. Timken's little box is very expensive.
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I work in this industry for a bearing manufacturer in the US. This is pretty
much the way it is in the industry; everyone buys from everyone else and
puts that product in their box. The only other possible business model is
to have everything in your box be yours, but it all comes from overseas.
Contrary to popular thought, in the bearing business, Made in the USA doesn't carry the clout you would think it would. Offshore has come a long
way in quality and if a customer isn't having an issue with an application,
no amount of coercion/bribery/payment under the table will make him buy your Made in USA bearing...... even if the pricing is close.
Ask me how I know.