Drippy kitchen faucet
A couple years ago, I hired a plumber to replace my kitchen faucet. Nothing fancy, just a basic bar sink faucet so I could easily fill buckets in my sink. They installed a Price Pfister model that has cartridges in the hot and cold handles. I didn't think anything about it and it worked fine for awhile. Now, it seems that the faucet starts dripping every few months and I have to call them out to replace the cartridges. Finding the cartridges has also become a problem because the company has gone out of business and I cannot get replacements at Home Despot or Ace Hardware. I can get them online (for the time being, don't know how long that will last) but, would I be better off just getting the plumber to put in a new name brand faucet? Does all new plumbing hardware have a life span of a year or two?
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It was 10 years old and needed new cartridges and was rusted out.
They replaced it at no cost to me with a "new improved" (no water pressure hardly at all to *save* water is the idea) model. ha!
I had to hire a plumber to install it as the unit they sent me was not the same and had a sprayer on it and the bypass valve was stripped and they did not send that part with the rest of the unit.
The plumber finally got the thing installed and the sprayer is now UNDER the sink and still attached/working!
I am not happy with any of this and it cost me over $200.00. 
I would NEVER buy a faucet with a cartridge on it again! NEVER!
BEWARE!
That is what I have over a super-sized sink as I have no bathtub being the bathroom was remodeled for a disabled person -- tub had to go.
So I have this *arrangement*.
If I have to change it again, I'll get a different faucet and to hell w/MOEN. 