I'm not bitter about anything, in fact I'm just happy to be alive and chalk up another day in fantasyland.
Just stating the facts and nothing more. Amazon is nothing more than a retailer of goods made by others, just like Walmart or Lowes or Home Depot is tons of other outlets are. None of them produce any hard goods, they simply provide a vehicle to sell them. I don't need to be 'schooled' on what is available on Amazon or anywhere else for that matter. I have the same access to all of them that you do.
In the case of Amazon especially, one has to use discretion as they like to promote goods made in China more than domestically made products and in the case of Tiny Tach's, the original maker was located in the Chicago area. I'm sure he's still around but I bet Amazon lists them as coming from across the pond.
I get to compete with offshore producers as well in my motorcycle accessory business which I never allude to on here. I have to keep my prices competitive and sometimes that can be difficult. My only salvation if you want to call it that is what I offer, I have patents on, not that it means much as the Chinese don't give a hoot about that anyway so I price my offerings competitively and so far it's worked out. When it don't, I'll quit making them as they are just a sideline for my welding and short run machining business.