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Before reading my guess is the shit quality of products. Edit: 1/2 right, it's also shit service.
by edoceo 3mo ago
Before reading my guess is the shit quality of products.
Edit: 1/2 right, it's also shit service.
- ggm 3mo agoOne of the lead paragraph issues, yes. You win the steak knives!
- stuart78 3mo agoPlease read the fine print before use. The steak knives are not to be used with animal products and poster will not be responsible in case of cracked blade.
- dd8601fn 3mo agoYou can curse at their dogshit customer service chatbot if you’re really upset about it, though.
- pineapplepizza6 3mo ago[dead]
- zzgo 3mo agoI bought steak knives last year. The handles all shattered when I ran them through the dish washer.
- Spooky23 3mo ago[dead]
- Filligree 3mo agoPlease don’t run them through the dish washer. Limited heat tolerance is common even for the really good ones.
- bluefirebrand 3mo agoMy dad has had the same set of steak knives for 25 years at least and has never washed them by hand even once I bet We stopped making good products at some point
- Filligree 3mo ago25 years isn’t that long, but it’s more about the material. If you have metal studs inside a plastic handle, then the metal expands in the dishwasher and cracks the plastic. If the handle is wooden… everyone knows wood won’t survive a dishwasher. If it’s metal, then yeah, that can work. That is, fortunately, easy to spot when you’re buying them… but the kitchen store in my city doesn’t have any knives that are all-metal and hold a decent edge. (Except some overpriced Japanese ones I skipped over on basis that the metal is so hard it would be easy to damage them by accident. And I don’t need to do the “cut paper in half by dropping it” trick.)
- ggm 3mo agoI wonder if those old school knife cleaners which flung silver sand all over them in some rotary manner have some utility? Bone handled EPNS cutlery was definitely not designed for the modern age. (never seen one in action, seen them in victorian era catalogues and stately home kitchen-museums)
- darth_avocado 3mo agoIn a way, shit quality/service is basically a form of high prices. If something that costs $20 and shouldn’t break for 4 years, breaks in 2 weeks, you effectively paid a high price for a $2 product.
- hankbond 3mo agoGood point. Things cost more not just in unit cost but amortized over the item's lifetime (or I guess put differently, how much Refrigerator $ you spend over the course of your life).
- fsckboy 3mo ago>If something that costs $20 and shouldn’t break for 4 years, breaks in 2 weeks, you effectively paid a high price for a $2 product. not true if all the other knives on the market at that price have the same performance, in which case that's just "the price of such a knife." in order to have paid too much there needs to be cheaper options with the same or better performance.
- darth_avocado 3mo ago> in order to have paid too much there needs to be cheaper options “Paid too much” from a consumer standpoint doesn’t need to have viable cheaper options. It’s about consumer expectations and results. If eggs in the grocery store cost $20/dozen, and you as a producer are taking a loss at that price because your producer costs arw $2/egg, consumers will still say they are paying too much. Because the expectation is coming from a market where a dozen costs $5-8.
- fsckboy 3mo agobuyer's remorse is not "paid too much"
- stevenwoo 3mo agoI’m only surprised it does not mention the road rage most drivers might only have in their mind but a few let it get the better of themselves and make the news -that’s always been present for most adult Americans daily lives.