I was kicking around on eBay and saw THESE

I know that traditionally, you get what you pay for, ESPECIALLY in musical instruments. I was wondering though, if bag pipes mightn't be similar to the trend experienced with guitars over the last decade or so.

It used to be that any guitar made in Asia was pure trash. Now, some of the products coming from there exceed American made guitars.

When I bought my last guitar I was searching for a hollow body to play rockabilly and maybe a little blues. I tried a ton of guitars from chEEEEEp Chinese through $$$$$$$$$ American made. In the end, I bought an Ibanez ArtCore, which, while not inexpensive ( ~$450), was more than $2000 cheaper than the only guitar I liked better (a Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins, if anyone cares).

Has anyone experienced this in bag pipes? Or is cheap still automatically bad in this field?