I’ve had this badge since the start of my nursing career in 2017. This thing is a TANK, I’m telling you what. I badge into doors constantly at work. I bought it in a two pack and the second reel is still in the packaging. The string has not worn down, it never sags no matter how many cards your institute gives you to hang on it, the reel is still snappy, and the loop for your badge is reinforced (barely any wear on the corner of mine). I love this thing. I have a sentimental attachment to it, because it’s been with me through everything.2/23/23 Update:Well folks, it finally broke this morning. I keep it clipped to the top loop on my backpack when I’m not wearing it so I don’t forget to take it to work, and as I moved it to my scrub top this morning, I mused about how old it is (even joked to myself that the day it broke would be the day I retire). I was 3/4 through my 12-hour shift and went to badge in to a door and the retracting spring mechanism made a little *pop* sound and broke.A few years back, my friend had a badge reel that broke at work and she cried because it was the reel she first started working in the medical fieldwith. I laughed at the time, but I totally get it. This badge has lasted me through the thick and thin of my nursing career. A lot of “firsts” were experienced while wearing this badge reel; trauma, patient death, the one time we had to do an emergency C-section in the regular OR, the time I saw a tiny neonate survive a crazy bedside surgery, the time I put a surgeon in their place for waaaaayyyy overstepping a line with me. It’s such a small inconsequential item, but it’s the single thing that has lasted me through 6(! Already!!) years of nursing. I’ve lost pens and scissors, I don’t wear a stethoscope anymore because I’m not at the bedside. I replace my shoes twice a year. But this reel is the real deal. My ride-or-die through all of my career changes, lol.Others have said the snap loosens, but I never had an issue with it, really. Sometimes it would pop open if the ring I kept a keychain Sharpie on pulled the wrong way, but I never had an issue even when it was loaded down with info cards when I worked on the hunt. There are fibers in the plastic that loops through the badge, so it doesn’t tear—mine never did. Just do yourself a favor and buy it. I’ve gotta find my other one, but I’m ordering another pack for six years from now where the backup breaks. If I order the five pack, it’ll last me until retirement, lol.