Paid over $50 for an iron and when hubs went to use it, it wouldn't get hot on the hottest setting. tried different outlets. Same thing. I used it 5 months and was frustrated with it. Needed a hot iron went to discount store and got one for $12 3 years ago and works great. No more irons over $20 for me but I have 3 irons all from discount store and together in total have not paid $50. Gave it to neighbors son who is autistic to tinker with it. He had the $50 iron working in 10 minutes. His mother loves it. Told her to keep it since he fixed it. Now his favorite thing to do is small appliance repair. His mom has garage sales every once in awhile and always gets the small appliances at asking price.