Spent $400 on a premium tack strip, wish I hadn't

I bought the top end tack strip with the pre-set pins last fall for a 1,200 square foot house in Phoenix. Thought it would save me time on every transition, but the pins kept bending on the concrete slab and I had to pry half of it up. My regular stuff costs $90 a roll and works fine, so why did I talk myself into the fancy version? Anyone else ever get burned by paying extra for something that sounded like it would make the job easier, but actually made it worse?

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black.joel4d ago

Man, that's brutal. $400 for a tack strip that fights back harder than my ex during a custody hearing. I can just picture you, sweating in Phoenix, prying up bent pins thinking "this is premium?" while your $90 roll sits in the van laughing at you. Sounds like the only thing pre-set was the disappointment. At least you gave the concrete a free workout, so there's that.