I had the exact same experience with hand blenders! I went for WMF the first time, a brand known at least in Germany for its quality. The connection was plastic

I had the exact same experience with hand blenders! I went for WMF the first time, a brand known at least in Germany for its quality. The connection was plastic too, but even worse: it didn't have a simple snap in mechanism, but you had to rotate it by about 20 degrees after connecting until you heard a click. When my mom visited she didn't know and didn't do it properly, and you could hear an awful sound. Within seconds the plastic connector got completely destroyed. Was also just a couple months old, so I went to the store (yes they have stores in almost every city that's maybe 200k people or more), and they were like "sorry bud, but you can get 10€ off for a new one". WMF is now on my blacklist of "crap companies that use their reputation to sell cheap China crap for a premium". I was so mad I glued together the connector with JB weld and used it for almost another year. Cleaning sucked that way though. Now I always get the cheapest one on Amazon so I don't have any expectations. When I wanted a standing one a couple years later I did that right from the start.