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Originally Posted by Carth
Be honest ... when was the last time you bought anything that you could genuinely call quality. Almost everthing now has a short term lifespan - it is cheaper to make 3 of something that will last 12 months than produce one good item to last 3 years. Technology is moving at a rate which supports this method - buy something today and it's out of date in 6 months time
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I had first hand experience of this attitude on Friday. A year or so back, my sister bought a hair dryer from a "good make". She bought it through her hairdressers and it cost something like £65.
On Friday, she was using it and it got caught in her hair, so when I got home, I had to pull it apart. lets just say that it was held together by two small screws and a whole load of sticky tape. Also the "metal" part of the body turned out to be some sort of coated plastic polished to look like chrome.