[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] what product did you have returned
[speaker001:] I had to uh I had to return a that recently I've had to return uh uh a cassette recorder um my feelings about products made in the United States uh recently is they are getting worse uh in fact I am kind of disappointed in American made things uh how about yourself
[speaker002:] well I'm kind of confused about American made products because Ford and Chevy have Isuzu Mazda engines and they're considered American products so I don't understand if we are supposed to not buy Volvos and Volkswagons and Mazdas because they are foreign or if we are supposed to buy American because they're foreign but they are American cars you know what I am saying
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and I just don't understand that
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and it seems that whenever you do have a product parts of it are both American and overseas that it creates a problem
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] both in uh the product and in the overall warranty or lasting
[speaker001:] have have you recently bought a car
[speaker002:] yes I did
[speaker001:] what what did you buy
[speaker002:] I bought a Chrysler New Yorker and my daughter bought a Plymouth Sundance
[speaker001:] they are pretty much a hundred percent American made aren't they
[speaker002:] no uh I was surprised yes Chrysler has some of their parts built overseas also
[speaker001:] or you know is that right
[speaker002:] and I thought that was totally American
[speaker001:] hum
[speaker002:] and uh that's why I stayed away from General Motors and find out that the same thing happened to me anyway
[speaker001:] I am really surprised to hear about uh I I haven't studied cars probably as closely as you have um I was really surprised that you mentioned uh Chrysler no it was GM and Ford that are um using Japanese motors and
[speaker002:] and engines that's true
[speaker001:] hum huh
[speaker002:] it seems that they're quote unquote American made where was your VCR
[speaker001:] um it
[speaker002:] what was it and what went wrong with it
[speaker001:] yeah let me see it was a Lloyd and um it it continually I don't know if I think it is Japanese I think Lloyd is made in Japan and uh it it was eating my tapes and uh I don't know I am totally uh totally confounded about uh uh American made and Japanese and I'm not sure which is the best I use the Consumer Digest a lot to decide what I want to buy
[speaker002:] yeah I do too I don't read it but sometimes I did you know that Fitzhugh is a Japanese computer company and they deliberately make boards and parts wrong so you will have to buy them
[speaker001:] hum
[speaker002:] and it cannot be repaired and that upset me when I found that out
[speaker001:] huh do you own a computer
[speaker002:] no I don't but my daughter does and she worked with a computer company that uh serviced them and she is the one that told me about that because uh we were we are thinking about buying a computer we haven't done it yet and uh since she works for this computer computer company I asked her what she thought was best cause if TI was using Macs and IBM clones and this type of thing and uh she was saying that she didn't know which one was the best because of the way they're put together and then she was telling me about this uh uh computer boards just put in X number of uh computers and then they last for eighteen months to no longer than two years and then instead of repairing them you have to buy a whole new board
[speaker001:] I didn't realize that I work for a CPA firm and we have a lot of computers in our office and uh the computers we use mostly are Dell computers and they are manufactured down in Texas
[speaker002:] by whom
[speaker001:] uh Dell Computers Dell Corporation
[speaker002:] Dell Corporation where do they get their parts from Fitzhugh
[speaker001:] uh uh uh I I don't know ma'am uh I wouldn't be surprised if most of them aren't Japanese parts but uh we've had the Dell computers for four years now and we we're really happy with them
[speaker002:] are you
[speaker001:] and we use them every day we use them probably eight hours a day on the average every day so they get a lot of use
[speaker002:] well maybe you're well you're probably fortunate you've probably got one of the better ones
[speaker001:] yep
[speaker002:] so you work part time with an accountant also
[speaker001:] I I'm full timing with the accountant's office
[speaker002:] oh