Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016)
by bushbaba on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:10PM
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Agreed. Hence the shock on people paying the markup. It’s not like this comes with some costly certification. There’s likely 1000s of products that offer the exact same capabilities at a 1/10 the price.
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Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016)
by kevinmchugh on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:22PM
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If you can find the cheapest ones that are just as durable, accurate, and fast you can replace the market leader amongst pros and serious hobbyists. That's worth a lot of money.
Get the right influencer/review site on your side and it's all downhill from there.
ETA: the thermapen isn't the Wirecutter recommendation. They recommend the entry level, $35 thermoworks option. So that's the price point to compete with and the $100 thermapen is the quality mark to hit.
Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016)
by jjeaff on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @01:57AM
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The thermoworks dot option is also manufactured and sold by ETI in the UK. Thermoworks just slapped a different name in it.
Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016)
by lifeformed on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:38PM
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It sounds like you're just making a seemingly reasonable assumption about something you don't know a lot about. There actually are not a lot of different kinds of good quality fast-reading thermometers out there.