Buying "legally" from China is your responsibility

I don't like articles that are written to scare, as is this one. But it does tell a couple of good stories that (hold your breath) have an actual helpful point to them. Here's the link to the William Foreman, AP article.The article backs up a couple of points (I made as recently as this week's post on Returning Product) obviously worth repeating. First, if you reject or return finished product you will see it again. The guy in this story saw his product 6 months later at the next industry trade show.Second, you'd better personally check out every factory that you use. If you don't you are to blame when problems arise. Avoiding the "small" factories and only working with "big" factories is not enough. You'd better verify EVERY production site you plan on using.Finally, my point not the article's, the importance placed on IPR and Western standards of safety are not yet completely understood, even by large factories, over here. Profit is. That's not a slam on China, it's just really how it is. Even when specific controls are built into contracts if you're not confirming that they are completed they there is a good chance they were not.