DIY & Home Improvement

It's not that their workers are substandard, far from it. It's that those workers are worked like galley slaves on products the factory owners have cut every corner they can on and still have it hang together on a showroom floor.

Definitely take that thing back. You should have taken it back a couple of years ago when half of it wouldn't light. They get enough people taking stuff back and leaving it in the store and driving their waste hauling bill up, maybe they'll lodge enough complaints with the manufacturer to get some changes made.

What kills me is that stuff like BBQ grills won't even pass safety inspections half the time, even if they're subjected to them.

(Yes, I've been burned on cheaply made but expensively sold Chinese crap. We all have)