My husband and I owned a hardware store from 1994 to 2005. We carried the OXO line in our store and I used this soap dispensing brush at home. My first brush, which I had in my new house in 2003 lasted me for many, many years and I was pleasantly surprised. At some point, closer to 2012, I still had the brush. I moved houses and got a new OXO brush and since that time I have found that they last a few months. The soap does not dispense correctly and the button that you push for the soap to dispense gets a hole in it so that water comes in and dilutes the liquid detergent. I would like to know how they changed their production during that time to make these brushes inferior.