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  • Krauerking
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    3 months ago

    Yeah but name brands mean you buy it once and it doesn’t fail as often, is the argument for that I get from those of that generation.

    And I mean I get it. Buy a cheap pair of shoes or a good pair and you will realize you will go through 3 of the cheap pairs at half price compared to buying 1 good pair.

    Though less so with each passing year since name brands are designed to fail now too.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, I’m 30 and I feel like I’ve never had the experience of being able to rely on a name brand consistently. Everything seems to fall apart. Sometimes you get something great, but when it comes time to replace it and you buy the exact same thing from the exact same company it comes at a much lower quality

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        3 months ago

        Its so fricking hard to find the trustworthy brands.

        I’m honestly just so willing to not have any brand loyalty and to suffer with making a bad pick that I have to return or fix myself, I constantly having to re-find what is considered actually good quality.

        The answer is a lot of name brand in the higher price range but not so high that it’s just for padding a contractor’s quote and percent take home is still good quality. And you can never go for the same model twice if the company is doing constant refreshes cause those are with cheaper components every time. (Allowance for first refresh fixing a flaw)

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Ironically, it was about 30 years ago that brand names started really leaning into shrinkflation, and enshitification, riding off the merits of their previously good name.