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[XDrake]

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Here in Iraq AAFES is pitching lap tops with pentium IIIs for their original price three years ago. Thieves.

[jenn1000p]

Do not ever make a big purchase from AAFES. You can get it cheaper anywhere else. Even with tax.

[OnlyUnicorn]

ya its better to shop places like walmart that buy there crap over seas that  exploit children and pay the couple bucks a day and keep then in a locked up warehouse. Go a head keep paying these slave wages

[Disgruntled]

AAFES sells Nike products made in Vietnam, speaking of products made by slave and child labor. China, Indonesia, Equador, Cambodia, Columbia... Yeah, WalMart is the only offender--NOT!

[Saintkingdom]

We all look the other way as long as we get our stuff cheap. Who's to say we are not doing these children a favor? With out us they would not be able to feed their families. I remember a documentry on this, the children were paid only pennies a day and that paid for food their family eats. The factory was shut down while they were making the doc. and they showed the ramifications of unemployment. Most of these kids have crippled parent/parents or no parents at all. Yeah it sucks they have to do this to survive but unless you are willing to go over there and take their place, shut up!

[Don_Coyote]

We all look the other way as long as we get our stuff cheap. Who's to say we are not doing these children a favor? With out us they would not be able to feed their families. I remember a documentry on this, the children were paid only pennies a day and that paid for food their family eats. The factory was shut down while they were making the doc. and they showed the ramifications of unemployment. Most of these kids have crippled parent/parents or no parents at all. Yeah it sucks they have to do this to survive but unless you are willing to go over there and take their place, shut up!

Damn... he's got a point... if I had a kid, I'd want him to learn the value of work too (not under the treat of his parents starving to death, and prefreably in better working conditions too). It does suck that they have to do this, but don't blame the companies that make money off of this, blame the able-bodied adults that don't work in their stead. No need to boycott em either, our companies shouldn't suffer cuz of the way other countries choose to distribue thier labor.

[Disgruntled]

The point you both miss is simple:

AAFES (and a lot of other manufacturers) buy stuff made in sweatshops and in factories manned by what amounts to slave labor, where the workers are paid pennies a day. By the time that stuff hits the racks, it is selling for many times over what it cost to make. Have you looked at the difference between cost and sell on some Nike items? Those children could be paid five times what they are with Nike and AAFES still making a huge profit.

In many of the countries I listed, the able-bodies adults are working their asses off in the factories and in the fields right along with their kids. Everyone works just to keep alive. I don't blame the families--I blame their governments and huge corporations that suck up all the money coming in and not giving a damn about the people who are responsible for making the products in the first place.

[Don_Coyote]

The only reason the corporations have so much money, is because they are selling them at grossly inflated prices. But do you think these guys are sparing any expenses on paying another country's gov't to work their kids half to death to make their product? I don't... otherwise, that little country will make shoes for someone who will pay em more. So a shoe company in Country-A pays the gov't of Country-B a lot of money to make shoes, but out of all that money, the gov't gives only a very small percentage of that to the workers. I wouldn't blame on corporations capitalizing on people with expensive tastes, I'd blame the gov'ts who ain't giving the workers their proper cut.

[Disgruntled]

I still blame the corporations because they know exactly what is going on and still send their manufacturing work to those countries. In the end, it is still all about the Benjamins...

[Don_Coyote]

Don't get it twisted... I don't think for one second that the corporations aren't at least partially to blame, i just think the other country's gov't is doin their people dirty by holding out on the money their making off of em. I don't think people whould feel as bad if they paid their workers more, cuz we wouldn't be paying $50 for shoes that were made for 5 cents.

[piss.on.aafes]

Do not ever make a big purchase from AAFES. You can get it cheaper anywhere else. Even with tax.

TOTALLY AGREE!  I look s*** up online all the time I find at AAFES and its way cheaper....even with shipping charges...to Germany.

[Quityerbitching]

Then buy it and be happy about the good deal.......... WTF ?

[piss.on.aafes]

Well, I guess you could say it is a good deal, except that it can take up to 30 days to get here.  And big items...forget getting them shipped overseas.   I was under the impression that AAFES "saves you money....everyday!"

[Vagabond]

AAFES does save me money, everyday... I go in there and don't find anything I need or want  to buy - so, I save money.