Two Years Later - Follow Up On Chinese Lasers

[Bert Kemp]

Yes over the years you have help many people here myself included , and I really appreciate your help as I'm sure others do also, and I hope you continue to help us. I didn't say you were bashing Chinese machines I just said you make it sound like you can't make big money with them. Yea thats on me I guess. I've read all the posts and it seems like you mention a lot about how much you make with your western machines and how we all could make more with them. Maybe I read this all wrong. I'll stop now.

That's on your Bert, not on me. But since you brought it up, let's chat about that. How many times have I said, even in this post, that if you were vector cutting it wasn't much different? Huh? How many times? So since it seems some people like to imply what I mean when I say things, why doesn't someone tell me what that means? When I say that they have their place and their application, what does that mean?

Search my posts. I've said it 100's of times. However, you didn't seem to call out the original poster for saying the following "I have continued to read the boogeyman stories online about buying Chinese machines. Some, I suspect from people with a vested interest in supporting domestic suppliers like Trotec and others.".

I've helped 100's and 100's of people on this forum. Chinese lasers and Western lasers. I've spent 1000's of hours of the last decade helping people with any laser, including you Bert. When a guy called with a new Chinese laser and he couldn't get it to work and showed up at my door with it, I opened the door, welcomed him in, and sent him out the door hours later running product on his machine. I've mentioned we own a Chinese laser. How the heck you all read all this "hate" into my posts is on you, not on me. But I'll be darned if I'm going to sit back and let people misrepresent my words or my actions over the last decade. I clearly stated my position a couple days ago a few posts up (#24), which said that a Chinese machine may be a good choice for some jobs. Then you come on here and tell me, once again, that my posts "sound like no one can have a business and make money using Chinese machines".

Unbelievable that the bias is actually so far the other way that so many read what they want to read instead of what's actually said.