The shitstorm of a fallout has pushed the community behind Billet Labs more than they ever would have gotten had they just gotten reviewed properly. It may have sucked what had happened but I think they will be better off in the long term now that people are aggressively supportive of them. Funny twist of fate in my opinion.
I’m going to quote another user’s comment on this to show this does have a market and the founders were honest about it:
It’s not for you to decide on if someone else should buy it. End of fucking story. I can guarantee you have bought some things that I would deem to be stupid, and not having a positive expected value too. People spend money on whatever the fuck they like, some douchebag named Linus tripling down on his incompetent review is the problem here… again, it has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not the product is overpriced to you or to the general consumer. That doesn’t fucking matter.
I’m into tools, I work on all my own vehicles and have a shop. I have bought a gold plated ratchet, I paid twice as much for it over the same thing with normal chrome plating. It’s a showpiece. That’s what this is. And it’s function deserves to be reviewed accurately, or not at all.