Cheap and even medium priced ones just don’t last very long. Bamix is the stick blender you will buy once. They still make spares for older models, I was in a cookery shop in Amsterdam and they were boasting how customers of theirs still have ancient 1980s bamix blenders where all that has been done to them is a replacement power cord.
I love this kind of product and I hate the fact I've had x number of dead cheapo stick blenders in my life. If I wasn't brought up such a tightarse I'd have bought one years ago.
Cheap and even medium priced ones just don’t last very long. Bamix is the stick blender you will buy once. They still make spares for older models, I was in a cookery shop in Amsterdam and they were boasting how customers of theirs still have ancient 1980s bamix blenders where all that has been done to them is a replacement power cord.