um
what product did you have returned
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
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
um-hum
and i just don't understand that
um-hum
and it seems that whenever you do have a product
parts of it are both American and overseas that it creates a problem
um-hum
both in uh the product
and in the
overall warranty or lasting
have have you recently bought a car
yes i did
what what did you buy
i bought a Chrysler New Yorker and my daughter bought a Plymouth Sundance
they are pretty much a hundred percent American made aren't they
no uh i was surprised yes Chrysler has some of their parts built overseas also
or you know is that right
and i thought that was totally American
hum
and uh that's why i stayed away from General Motors and find out that the same thing happened to me anyway
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
and engines that's true
hum huh
it seems that they're quote unquote American made where was your VCR
um it
what was it and what went wrong with it
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
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
hum
and it cannot be repaired and that upset me when i found that out
huh
do you own a computer
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
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
by whom
uh Dell Computers Dell Corporation
Dell Corporation where do they get their parts from Fitzhugh
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
are you
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
well maybe you're
well you're probably fortunate you've probably got one of the better ones
yep
so you work part time with an accountant also
i i'm full timing with the accountant's office
oh
