Cheap Ass Radar Detectors

[TSi+WRX]

Man, I miss a couple of days, and look at what I missed!

Frankly, this kind of stuff doesn't surprise me.

I grew up in the Far-East, in Taipei, Taiwan (I'm, of Chinese ancestry, though), for the first 9 years of my life. I've returned there a couple of times since, to visit family.

Knock-offs/clones of physical products and pirated "software" of all types is rampant, and is not even frowned upon, at the "street" level, by any type of enforcement authority or personnel.

Similarly, having witnessed my father's business background (I say background, as, to the best of my knowledge, only dealt with legitimate items, not clones/knock-offs, and this had always been one of his concerns, and was what eventually forced him out of business, due to his margins just vanishing) during those years, I am also very aware that the trafficking of such goods figures prominently throughout the area and culture.

I am thus always somewhat cynically amused when Americans and other Westerners express such shock at the fact that these types of products - and businesses - exist.

And truth be told, I'm surprised that it took them this long to infiltrate CES, in this particular area.......

Funny, and disgusting, at the same time.

And embarrassing, too, given that it's part of my heritage/culture.

Thanks for taking the time to share this with us, Roy, and for flagging such concerns for consumers everywhere.

[TSi+WRX]

Interesting side-note:

Roy - in your interview with the gentleman, Mr. Chen, hawking his wares for "Rayee," you asked him if he's based out of Korea ( time-stamp approx. 0:10 to 0:12 - YouTube - Cheap Ass Radar Detectors! ), and he said "yes."

But on your blog entries, both for the "Cheap Ass Radar Detectors" as well as the "CES Overview" (REF: 2009 CES Overview ), you cite that they're Chinese?



Just wondering where, exactly, these knock-offs are coming from....

[Laser-InterceptorUSA]

Just wondering where, exactly, these knock-offs are coming from....

CHINA, Of course!

Cliff - LI-USA

[Stealth Stalker]

CHINA, Of course!

Yeah, that dude don't look Korean to me. Reminds me of a Chinese calculus professor I had in undergrad. He'd shake his head up and down and smile, saying "yes, yes!" to everything you'd say to him, but he didn't understand a single word you had said.

[dpatel01]

Yeah, that dude don't look Korean to me. Reminds me of a Chinese calculus professor I had in undergrad. He'd shake his head up and down and smile, saying "yes, yes!" to everything you'd say to him, but he didn't understand a single word you had said.

I had one of those calc profs too. It seemed pointless going to his class.

[BTJustice]

RAYEE TECH.

[TSi+WRX]

^ NICE Intr4w3b Kung-Fu !

Look at that, guys....

Not Chinese.

Not Korean.

Taiwanese.

I guess we all need some English lessons (not to mention Internet lessons, too), after all.

Sorry for nit-picking, guys, but in the global atmosphere of today's world, I feel that it is *very* important to properly attribute the origin of products. Particularly for us Americans, who've always been shunned as being not worldly-aware enough.

[Stealth Stalker]

Razer!!! Razer!!!

No workee!!! No workee!!!

[TSi+WRX]

^ ROFL.

I wonder if the same person does all the voices, in Taiwan.

Why the heck they didn't hire my aunt, I don't know - she teaches at Taipei University, Modern Languages. She's a Ph.D. in several, and fluent in countless more.

American by birth, Caucasian. But most people who know her, myself included, know that she's more Chinese/Taiwanese than any of us. I love going places with her, in Taiwan, and just watching the expressions of those around us, when she speaks and eats.