Some other high purity pump suppliers took that as free license to develop ambient temperature pumps and charge high temperature pump prices. This however will not be long term. The reliability of the White Knight AT Series pumps came from their simple, robust design. The design features that made them reliable were separate from those that gave them their high temperature capabilities. It was very easy to create an ambient temperature high purity pump based on the simple and robust design of the White Knight AT Series pump while leaving out the features that gave the AT Series pumps their high temperature capabilities.
Reliability is the same at no extra charge.
The beauty of the free market system that exists in today's global economy is that it is self-correcting. These tricks won't go on forever. I have heard it said that when the system is ready, the solution will appear. What it took to get the correction started was a champion who believed that it could be done.