When HN users recommended it
1 HN user recommended this in 2016, in one comment.
20072026
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Front Washing Machine Bearing Repair
Amazon's catalog no longer lists this product (checked 2026-11-02). The name comes from the link HN users posted.
The seal that fails is the small seal on the back of the drum that keeps the grease on the outside of the tub and the caustic wash water from the bearing. It runs (with a spring backer) between the fixed part of the machine and the tub at full RPM, with hot, slightly caustic wash water in it. Those simply aren't lifetime seals and can't reasonably be made to be so.
It's the seal here: https://www.amazon.com/Front-Washing-Machine-Bearing-Repair/...
Not the tub seal, nor any other place where accurate tightening of screws can influence.
PS: I agree with you to a point on the second hand market value keeping some amount of tabs on the pricing pressure in the brand-new market, but I also don't think that very many people actually cross-shop brand-new and second-hand to really keep those markets' prices linked.