Modern floppy disk question...

Richard wrote: For $10 you expect quality? (Other than the quality of being junk?) It's another triumph of crapitalism. When everyone (to a first approximation) is more concerned about price than quality, all the manufacturers produce low-priced junk, because there's not enough demand for a quality product to make it worthwhile to manufacture. If someone tried to sell a really high-quality drive today, they'd probably have to price it at $75 or more, and how many could they sell at that price? I haven't had too much trouble with new Teac drives purchased in the last year. I really don't understand how they can manufacture these, ship them across the ocean to a distributor, the distributor ships them to a dealer, and the dealer sells them to me for $10, and someone makes a profit at each step. Making a floppy drive (even not a very good one) still requires some precision manufacturing. If all they had to do was pick them up off the ground (like a rock), put it in a box, ship it across the ocean, to the distributor, to the dealer, and finally to me, I'd have expected to have to pay more than $10 for it. Eric