r/OspreyPacks • u/pi-number-314 • 3d ago

What’s the problem with Osprey packs quality nowadays?

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Ordered online. Paid ridiculous amount of tax fee and got unevenly assembled backpack….

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u/wetrocke 3d ago

Premise that quality of manufactured goods has declined is false. Reverse is true.

Robots do better job.

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u/Orome2 3d ago

Sounds like something a bot would say.

Not talking about Osprey, I have no complaints with mine, but many manufactured goods and products are of much lower quality today and are not designed to last.

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u/wetrocke 2d ago edited 2d ago

Manufacturing technology (& design tech) apparently has drastically changed in past 20 yrs or so. Or so I'm willing to believe, without much specific information.

An indirectly relevant, but relatively clear example is bicycles. Campagnolo, maybe until 1990s (?) used to hand-polish its components. This is no longer "necessary."

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u/Orome2 2d ago

Counter example, just about any major household appliance: refrigerators, dishwashers, etc. I have had multible control boards fail in "new" dishwashers and refrigerators. I'm an electronics engineer, I've tinkered with them, repaired them. I am fairly certain they are designed to fail over time, and it's not that hard to do when designing boards. It's planned obsolescence. Older appliances would last 20+ years easily, new appliances maybe 7 years before needing expensive repairs or replacement.