I bought a winch for my car trailer 5 years ago. It works excellent and only thing I've ever had to do was replace the cheap chinese wiring on it.

I've bought car dollies, jacks, towing equip, small power tools, an air compressor and misc hand tools over the years and have never had any issues.

I might be the minority though.

As far as sockets ratchets and the like I always go to autozone and get the lifetime warranty for a few bucks more.