Scale easy to read, but poor durability

We got ourselves the graduated cylinder on 16 October 2014. It was intended for small quantity additions such as Metaxa, rum, orange juice etc. in certain recipes.
The measuring cylinder is never fallen down or been subjected to other violence.
We might have used the cylinder during this period 10 times, of which he was flushed out 9 times by hand and only once he landed in the dishwasher. This was probably a big mistake. Vorm cooking we had 250ml of wine poured into the cylinder and wondered suddenly about a puddle around the cylinder.
Upon close visual inspection you could see a small crack and a small hole at the bottom edge. Seems as if it were a bubble trapped in plastic.
Definitely there was previously a real bubble in the plastic and the dishwasher has then done the more so.
Anyway, the cylinder is now unusable and we think times because of a material error. So quality control unfortunately lacking.
Exchange unfortunately not possible because outside the return period. On 30.12.2014, the defect was found.
Apart from the now useless product, the measuring scale was punched and very easy to read. This probably would not disappear in the future as in some other graduated cylinder, where the scale is just painted. Therefore, two stars and this but turned a blind eye to all incl. Fat eyes.