# I just lost my largest customer to China.

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**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [March 10, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-just-lost-my-largest-customer-to-china/9153 "2006-03-10T19:31:08Z")
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### Author: ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2008, 11:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-just-lost-my-largest-customer-to-china/9153/116 "2008-03-25T11:44:15Z")

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> [@Denton](#):
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> That doesn’t sound strange to me.  
> Your end customer was evaluating Chinese crap.  
> Your distributor caught wind of it and drove down their inventory.  
> End customer decided Chinese crap is crap.  
> Distributor is caught with no stock and pants down, places hurry up order.
> 
> Everyone bitches about the squeeze to drive down their costs, doesn’t mean everyone is going under.
> 
> People are flaky, and it makes it hard to do business.

Believe me that thought had crossed my mind about a second after they wanted us to stop shipping because they are always beating us up on price.

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