I own 4 of these binders now. I have yet to need to replace them do to binding breaking or plastic tearing. My pages stay nice and flat. I could never go back to the cheap white plastic binders.
My son needed one binder for school for his resource room class. All the other binders were purchased at his school through the student council. He already needs to replace his white binder so I'm heading to Staples tonight to buy a Better Binder because they are made really quite well!