It is not just a TC thing, it is EVERYTHING. I cannot believe what companies are passing off as quality. My wife is forced to resew some of the clothes that she buys as the seams are defective or buttons come off. I buy rolls of paper for the studio and return them as half way through they are defective. You buy something electronic and it works for a few days then that is it.
This week we got a new fridge, funny thing (or not so funny) is that we just bought a fridge 10.5 months ago. The delivery guy remembered everything about the last delivery. Good thing was that this fridge was free as GE replaced the first one as we had so much trouble with it.
In a lot of the cases I would rather hold on to the old as I know it works.