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Originally Posted by JLMounce

.....Penny pinchers looking for the bottom line have gone too far in one direction and failure payouts are rising.

Agree! In my experience, this has been true for everything that sells competitively for at least 3 decades.

We're due for a swing towards quality.

I'm not holding my breath. Large businesses have an amazing ability to avoid spending money on quality and reliability. There are lots of "creative" ways to manage higher-than-planned losses that somehow appeal to companies more than the cost and time needed to assure those losses are low...

Yes, I'm an old cynical dinosaur.

Mike