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<blockquote data-quote="Ryan Lantzy" data-source="post: 32465" data-attributes="member: 7">Re: Unbelievable!That&#039;s a good point about quality vs. what I would call heavy duty products. I guess I start to consider it a quality issue when the item in question doesn&#039;t live up to it&#039;s advertised capabilities. There isn&#039;t really much claimed about the long term durability of the road cases in question, but we (and therefore the manufacturer should) know what most buyers intend on using them for.I think there is actually a spec for this. Some cases are listed as ATA100 ATA200 and so on. I think it&#039;s a rating for how many times it could take an trip via airline freight until it falls apart.If an EWI case costing $300 has an ATA100 rating and an Olympic case costing $600 has an ATA200 rating, then I guess there is theoretically no difference in value between the cases. But would you say the EWI case is of lower quality?Correction: The spec is actually called ATA Spec 300.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know what all it entails, ignore my comments on that... The point being, if the case is half as sturdy for half the price, then it&#039;s the same value.&nbsp; Is it lower quality?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ryan Lantzy, post: 32465, member: 7"] Re: Unbelievable! That's a good point about quality vs. what I would call heavy duty products. I guess I start to consider it a quality issue when the item in question doesn't live up to it's advertised capabilities. There isn't really much claimed about the long term durability of the road cases in question, but we (and therefore the manufacturer should) know what most buyers intend on using them for. I think there is actually a spec for this. Some cases are listed as ATA100 ATA200 and so on. I think it's a rating for how many times it could take an trip via airline freight until it falls apart. If an EWI case costing $300 has an ATA100 rating and an Olympic case costing $600 has an ATA200 rating, then I guess there is theoretically no difference in value between the cases. But would you say the EWI case is of lower quality? Correction: The spec is actually called ATA Spec 300. I don't know what all it entails, ignore my comments on that... The point being, if the case is half as sturdy for half the price, then it's the same value. Is it lower quality? [/QUOTE]

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