Filament from China? Anyone try it?

[Timaz]

I have lived in China for almost a decade and am very much involved with the Chinese 3D printer community. Any sentence that begins with "in China..." is a problem. China is huge and far more diverse than Westerners realize. It's like lumping Brazil and New Hampshire together because they are both in the Americas. Chinese are fiercely provincial and are only barely unified by a common tongue- which is used only when they cannot use their local dialect. There is a vast range in culture, industrial development and business practices depending on where you are and the background of the people you are dealing with.

In 3D printing there are crappy cupcake clones:
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=20844024334

...and top end all metal machines like like the Zbot and the QUBEe
http://52printer.com/proinfo.asp?bid=14&id=273
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=35873125758

But people have "cheap Chinese knockoff 3D printer" stuck in their mind because that's all anyone imports. Likewise there is filament here that is better than any I have used in the West- Faberdashery etc. The problem is that it is just as good- or a bit better, but costs only 10-15% less after shipping so is not a viable export product. People won't pay top dollar for "Chinese junk" even if it's actually better.