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Incredibly overpriced when $30 models can get E104 calibration sticker
While you aren't wrong, it also sounds like you aren't their target market.
For people/companies working in certain professional spaces, the name recognition does hold a lot of value. Much like the old and now antiquated adage "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM", the same is true for Fluke. If something goes wrong and you had a Fluke (or one of a handful of other similarly expensive companies) which a valid NIST-traceable cal cert, nobody blames you for the brand of meter you chose. They just chock it up to being a one-off or somebody else's failure.
If you don't fall into one of those spaces/industries, then this, like almost all Fluke stuff, is way overpriced for the feature set and capabilities.
EDIT: I will also add, that I have seen a handful of companies that only sell things like this at a markup to include them in bundles or as freebies to make the deal look sweeter than it is.
Last edited by PedroDaGr8 September 15, 2026 at 02:12 PM.
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For people/companies working in certain professional spaces, the name recognition does hold a lot of value. Much like the old and now antiquated adage "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM", the same is true for Fluke. If something goes wrong and you had a Fluke (or one of a handful of other similarly expensive companies) which a valid NIST-traceable cal cert, nobody blames you for the brand of meter you chose. They just chock it up to being a one-off or somebody else's failure.
If you don't fall into one of those spaces/industries, then this, like almost all Fluke stuff, is way overpriced for the feature set and capabilities.
EDIT: I will also add, that I have seen a handful of companies that only sell things like this at a markup to include them in bundles or as freebies to make the deal look sweeter than it is.
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