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Old 05-30-18 | 07:55 AM
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Originally Posted by 79pmooney
And $20 for a cage is expensive? For a cage that will do its job the next 20 years? I don't blink an eye paying that for that quality. Not for items that are that important. (I keep my mouth shut, but I do laugh rather cruelly on the inside when I see a cage and bottle rolling along the road. And those cages are either aluminum or very light in almost every case.)

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Lots of people would gladly pay twice (or three times) for something cheap but having it last half (or 1/3rd) as long as paying a lot for something that will last twice or 3 times as long. As the saying goes "buy nice or buy twice".
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