Yup, no sense paying an American $14 an hour when they can get Poles and Mexicans to do it for $1.40.
Just good corporate business.
Just bad practice.
How many Mexicans and Poles earning $1.40 an hour are going to buy one of their computers?
If they had stayed in N.C. they would have built a consumer base.
Instead they're killing their own sales and more than quadrupling their shipping costs.
On the plus side, they're going to have to pay us guys to pick up their computers from the ports and deliver them to the warehouses, then pay us to pick them up from the warehouses and take them to the stores.
If I see a Mexican driving a load of Dells north from the border for ten cents a mile I'm going to puke.
BTW, hate Dells. Never owned one, never sold one, repaired countless ones.
And BTW, I have a Dell carcass in the junk pile right now. Guy brought it to me saying it was shutting down after being on for more than an hour or so. Turned out to be typical bad design. Nothrbridge overheated and the computer would shut down to prevent it from burning up. Tried putting a small fan blowing onto the chip, but it didn't help. Eventually used thermal tape and an old, small heatsink with a fan on it. He brought it back a while later and said it wouldn't start. The CPU burned up. I suggested he replace it with a new computer. Talked him into having me build one for him. Cost less than his Dell and still hasn't a complaint about it.
The Dell meanwhile I gutted of it's power supply, memory and hard drive. The case is rusting quietly out back.
Dell = Don't Expect Lasting Lifetime or Doesn't Exist Long Lol