It's funny to me the vortec/Tunze loyalists who want these outstanding bargain pumps to BE junk so they will feel better about spending 5x more lol
Seems like an odd thing to say. I don't read 'loyalist' or 'apologist' in any of the comments in this thread? People buy what they buy for all sorts of reasons: value, performance, reputation, etc. Vortech have their segment of customers, Jaebo have theirs - heck, there's probably quite a lot of overlap. Nobody yet know what the mean time to failure will be for these Chinese knock-offs. Maybe it'll be a year, two years ..... less ... who knows. Time will tell - and it has nothing to do with being a loyalist.
I'm a big fan of the Vortech pumps, but I must say I know very little about how long one can expect them to last. If it costs 5 times more, will it last five times longer? What's the 5 year ownership cost of each? Probably closer than one would think, but time will tell.