Regarding HF tools:

Cheap goods will always drive quality goods out of the market place, a fact
pointed out by Adam Smith more than 200 years ago.

Once the quality goods have been driven out, the price of the cheap goods will
then rise to the point where you will be paying high prices for junk. The
number of everyday examples that illustrate this point are too numerous to
mention but some examples all should appreciate are clothing, light bulbs and
automobiles.

In a dollar-oriented society there appears to be no easy solution for this
economic fact of life.

-R.S.Hoover