Interestingly enough, I've never had a floor pump fail. Right now I'm using a Nashbar pump, a blue one, that I must have bought at least fifteen years ago. It still works fine. I bought it so long ago that I don't remember how much I paid, but believe it was the cheapest one in the line of pumps labeled by a color. If I were to buy a new one, I'd buy a Nashbar one.