I wouldn't go that far, one bad experience with warranties should not put you off. I would still recommend them to anyone. I brought my ED2's before my first Tahr trip which was in Oct 2010. Since then they have had one hell of a hard life, dropped down bluffs, run over and generally treated pretty rough over the last year or two and they are still some of the best binoculars I have used and still going strong with no sign of giving up yet. You can still buy 3 or 4 pairs of these to one set of Swarovskis so even if you broke one set and brought another you would still be better off.
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