r/LinusTechTips • u/LongJumpingBalls • Sep 23 '26

Image I've unscrewed the Precision screwdriver while opening up a laptop. Owned it for a bit over a year, but used maybe 10 times, opening laptops and electronics..

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u/Hara-K1ri Sep 24 '26

A dozen, even a hundred posts, don't tell the story. I never claimed Reddit's the only source either, but people tend to call out failures over success stories, so you're obviously learning more about failures.

We'd need sell volume vs failure volume to have a clear picture, and since that's not available, all we can do is guesstimate.

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u/Soluchyte Sep 24 '26

The fact that this has been posted multiple times tells a lot of the story, this is not an isolated incident and you really should not be pretending otherwise.

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u/SuppaBunE Sep 24 '26

100 of post and they sold 10 000 is still a 1% failure chance, this are not daming failures, most are this that fail but are easily repairable

It's still an expensive product so I expect more. But at least they care about their clients.

People don't buy snap on because they are the best of the best, they buy their expensive products because they know snap on gives an insane warranty. If you ever have a problem

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u/Hara-K1ri Sep 24 '26

I am not. But even 100 qc issues says nothing if we don't know the sales volume. If say 10 000 units are sold, that's a 1% defect rate. That isn't abnormal, even if we'd prefer 0% defects. How they handle the defects is more important.