Glad you caught it early (all things considered). It's become difficult in modern times to tell the iffy products from the first class ones. Price (either way is too crude of a measure). Ken Thurm, a former member here, and I had an interesting conversation some years back about the difficulties of producers/marketers being able to remain viable price and quality wise with global dynamics being what they are/were. He had to send his fabrication to China to remain even close in price to be viable, but struggled with the quality control. He made contracts that specified the quality level he demanded and his foreign "partners" complied at first, but over time they tried to get away with cutting corners hoping to not get caught. In the end he sent his own employee over there to watch out for his interests day to day. I understand now that there are U.S. companies who offer the service of being on site inspectors (for a fee of course) to manage QC for U.S. companies. Sigh...............