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I buy Chinese products that are failure prone from them for this reason. Sure I could get it $10-15 cheaper from China if I wait 3 weeks and forgo the return option but I end up returning that junk so often that it’s worth paying 15% more


I have a fairly good eye for products that will fail right out of the box, so I prefer not to pay extra for a returns policy.


There is typically an inverted failure curve on these things, if it doesn’t fail the first 30 days of hard use then there is a good chance it will last another couple years.


Which, when you paid $8 for fancy lab equipment that would cost $800 normally, is fiiiiine.




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