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Reply to comment by Ronnoc527 in What makes one product cheap junk that breaks in a week and another that lasts a lifetime? by SirCheeseAlot
Sort of an aside, sort of on topic, but suppose light bulbs were supplied by the power company as part of the service. You’d visit the utility office and exchange burnt out bulbs for new ones, for a $2 (1978 dollars) yearly subscription. That’s the world my parents (born 1930s) lived in until the service stopped in 1978 because a store owner sued the utility. My parents would complain about the low quality bulbs they had to buy in the stores, that were never as good as the ones from the utility.
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Reply to comment by deus_ex_platapus in Bonded leather office chairs will only last about a year & then you have a large piece of trash. by temp225566
Steelcase Criterion. I have one at work that’s 22 years old, and bought two more from a university property dispossession warehouse (a great source for indestructible furnishings). If the pneumatic cartridge in a Steelcase chair fails, it’s very much worth the $50 replacement part.