Orient Express - Cheap Chinese Rims / Wheels / Forks / Frames / Cranks / Etc

...But for the most part I wouldn't imagine that those going for the farsports et al. options are customers stolen from Zipp ....

You're probably correct. But interestingly on WW there's a guy in a team who (at the time I read it) moved on to Chinese carbon rims for his team.

From memory the reasons were;

• he experienced a similar number of failures from the bigger brands as with the Chinese ones,
  
• the turn-around time for replacements (assuming they got replacements) was so long that it was impractical,
  
• the overall cost of so many wheels getting trashed.
  
  

I seem to remember him getting absolutely gunned by a number of people.