The problem with buying from any overseas manufacturer is with the export of dollars. Unfortunately just about every American manufacturer found out it's more profitable to use foreign labor and components to escape the laws governing labor and the environment in America. So consumers in their never ending greed just sat back and let the jobs of their friends and neighbors drift overseas because they were too lazy to get involved with politics at home. Want to know why you may not have a job or the one you have pays so bad? You did it to yourself.

Next time you folks look at a shipping invoice from Hobby King or similar, look at the product values noted on the customs documents. You think American manufacturers are gouging you? When the value of a servo on a Hobby King customs invoice is listed at only $0.18 (that's 18 cents for those numerically challenged) you know you're getting had.

Yes, American dealers make some money on a sale to you. They have to if they want to eat and have a place to live, and to provide that warranty service that all of you insist on having. You do the same when you accept a paycheck. You work to have enough to pay the bils and, hopefully, put some away for a rainy day. That payment of the bills and setting aside a little is called "overhead and profit". Seems it's ok for you to do it but it's not ok for the person you expect to take care of you to do the same.

Yes, the cost of everything appears to be going up. The operative word in that sentence was "appears". In reality the cost of those products is the same or less than they used to be. The problem is the value of our dollar. It has and is going down so manufacturers expect to receive value equal to the sale of their products and increase the number of dollars needed to buy them to offest the decline in dollar value. Gas is not more expensive, our dollar simply isn't worth anything. That's what happens when you go from a production economy to a consumer economy. You import and buy more than you make so you export dollars instead of importing currency. We have one of the weakest currencies in the world, and a large part of the reason is the American consumer. The other part of the reason is the American voter. They didn't bother to learn about anything, didn't vote, and now are paying the piper.

You learn this is a cold, hard fact if and when you ever travel overseas and try to buy something. Ever wonder why it takes more dollars to buy a Euro or Dinar? Wasn't all that long ago it took more Euros and Dinars to buy a dollar. Now it takes 1.5 dollars for a Euro, and up to 3.7 dollars to buy certain Dinar. Even the Australian and Canadian dollars have reached parity with the American dollar, which means none of the three is worth more than about $0.28 on the world market.

I don't know if some of you are simply stupid or just in denial, but the more American businesses you force to close the more you're going to pay later. Nobody works for free.