Well, if you like coffee and think "the more expensive, the better" just look up what the most expensive coffee in the world (like 300 $€ a pound) Kopi Luwak is made of...
It's all about the vibe... in the pump. If you are a bit into those machines (I once saved a medium class one from the dumpster and got it working with new parts for 10€ and an afternoon of repair) Dave's tear down of the rip off (which is more a rip down and tear off
) hurts as if you would see a Barista tearing down some vintage tube amplifier he found in the dumpster. "Oh look at those glassy thingos with metal legs like a bug! You cant pour coffee in and when you smash them it makes 'poof'. What's that sign, 'EL34' no idea, don't like music...."
But well there are people out there just buying new Weller soldering stations only to destroy the transformer
(and thus making the world a bit more safe.)
3 Thermal fuses in Hardware and one Software sensor multiplied by 2 heating elements in this (not!) El Cheapo coffee grinder vs. 0 thermal and 0 electrical protection in a once well reputated soldering station. Legally maybe 1 Klixon and a sticker "don't leave unattended" would have been enough to get UL-grade coffee, but "even" the chinese did better.
In fact I think "made in China" may change in less then a decade or maybe two to a quality symbol, at least for certain brands. Like it happened 100 years ago in the history of the "made in Germany"-tag once intended to tell poor quality German products from great british ones and coming back like a boomerang. Oh wait, what's that country where Weller once produced their stuff...?