A great company makes a commitment to quality and the customer, that requires a great investment in capital, time and the willingness to fail.
Obviously you have never outsourced, domestically or internationally and don't have a clue how the relationship between suppliers and customers work.
Customers are always trying to drive the factory to the lowest possible cost to increase their margins. Factories are wanting to keep the doors open and production lines moving. The factories often operate on razor thin margins to keep continuity and skilled workers employed, whether it be a factory in the U.S., Mexico, Europe or anywhere else they will look for any way they can cut their cost as well. It's a fact of life, maybe over your head but that's the way it really is in today's world.
That's why you put strict quality control in place no matter where you do business or your going to get the kind of cylinder that was pictured.
Bailey's is new at outsourcing these parts, it's a learning curve that goes with it, and is to be expected, even out of the best companies. You just make it right with your customers and re-coop your cost from the factory.
I've consulted to a local machine shop that makes assemblies for the oil business, they are a small-medium size company, they do the same thing, they look for any shortcut they can take to increase profits. That's why you build penalties in vendor agreements, defective allowances, random sampling and have the factory pay for independent consumer test labs to do technical testing against a set standard.
Nope nothing dishonest about it, you have to know what your doing to play in this field. Thats why I'm not in the tree service or climbing business, never went to school for it, not trained for it, too old and fragile for the learning curve, let the pro's that know how to do it accomplish the job correctly.
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you know,,THAT might not be a bad idea ...
