Look at Chris Hutchins post. He says these are still crap today. Wouldn't matter if you bought them 3 years ago or today. Although it's not reasonable to expect Marco to replace these after 3 years, he sure as shit should replace them if you bought them now. Problem is the replacement would probably break. I have just soldered small wires on these to fix - sucks to have to do extra work on new parts just to use them.