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Unlikely. I see this frequently, where niche vendors charge a lot for discontinued products.

• account42 4y ago
  Perhaps demand for discontinued products is not uncommon. It can have other reasons than the old products being bad (e.g. I recently bought two copies of a discontinued mosue at higher-than-MSRP prices because switching to a different model costs me in time to get used to it) but I wouldn't discount it as a major factor. A lot of products really have gotten shittier replacements.
  • AuthorizedCust 4y ago
    > A lot of products really have gotten shittier replacements. A perpetual pattern in humanity is this refrain coming from old people. :-) You can find examples of it from centuries ago.
    • account42 4y ago
      A lazy response in online discussions is this idea that "old man yells at clouds" is somehow an argument for how things have not gotten worse. We are in a thread discussing an instance where a company is making their product worse FFS.
      • AuthorizedCust 4y ago
        It is reducing the value of something merely to one attribute.