“Just ask customer service for a replacement. Doesn’t matter if you didn’t buy an extended warranty. Doesn’t matter if there was no warranty to begin with. A lot of companies just want to resolve customer complaints quickly and will give you free replacements on request.”
It's actually true for many products. Many cheap supermarket house brands are often made by the big premium brands just in a different package. Some hygiene products are available from dozens of different brands but in reality, there are only two companies in the whole country that make it and with the exception of some slight changes to colour and fragrance it was all the same stuff.