Mark Carroll's Journal

Ah, thank you for looking! From reviewer comments like,

Used it for the first time last night and the plastic plunger snapped. The old one used to be made of metal. This new version is cheap and flimsy …

and

but this latest version by Bodum just seems quite cheaply built …

and

Very poor quality item. Bodum appear to have changed their design of this teapot …

I'm wondering if you got the pre-design-change version!

(I'm still irritated with Sennheiser for improving the design of headphones I like that had been a good seller for years.)