“I don’t know how Harbor Freight makes it...but the one near me is still in business.”
If you sell a tool that would be good for life at, say $3, and one pile of garbage tool good for use twice @ $1, your average consumer will buy the pile of garbage over and over again.
Garbage electronics is another category where people, for whatever stupid reason, will buy the same pile of garbage over-and-over again instead of spending more on something that will last significantly longer for a few dollars more (TVs are a prime example of this).
You could slap a $99 price tag on a piece of crap 40” TV during the holidays that hasn’t a prayer of lasting more than a year or two. It will sell out. People will kill each other over that pile of crap.
The surviving idiots will be lining up for the same piece of garbage and violence the following holidays once their TV dies during the summer.
It’s the cycle of stupidity! If you have no morals, you can cash in on it too!!! :-)
There’s an old spanish saying “Lo barato sale car”. Which literally means “Cheap will come out expensive”.
You nailed it! Which is why I spent $300 on a Dyson Animal vacuum cleaner that not only is better but lasts longer than the Shark.