Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Okay, so I'm buying a couple hundred dollars worth of stuff for a major project I'm working on. Hey, that's a good deal - bunch of wire for cheap. Good enough for automotive apparently. Sure why not. I order the stuff, and it all sits in a box for a few months because the season turned on me. Fast-forward to the first time I try to use this wire, I threw every single roll away. Apparently I missed one, which I found cleaning up today, thus the review. Background; my profession involves literal national certification for soldering. So, let's break this wire down. Wire consists of two things. Insulative jacketing and a conductor. The jacketing is honestly the absolute worst quality plastic jacketing I have ever seen. Melts at a low temperature, shrinks horribly when warmed, loose fit around the conductors, stretches like taffy when hot. Yeah I know, it's not meant to get hot, but I made the mistake of trying to solder the wire into a connector. Crazy, right? Next we move on to the conductor. First problem, there isn't any of it. 18 Ga? In WHAT universe? Absolutely no way is this 18 Ga, unless they're scamming us by not indicating that "18 Ga" means something else in their nomenclature. 10 Rolls of it, sure. 100 Feet, uh...why not. I didn't unspool more than the foot I ..."used?".... Next problem. What METAL is this? It's not copper. It's not tin. It's copper colored, but when heated (aka, soldered) the plating burns off, and the conductor within - aluminum probably? - is exposed, and absolutely refuses to bind to the solder. What's worse is that whatever reaction happened with that metal being heated and exposed to solder also stripped the coating off of the tip for my Metcal station! THAT TIP COST MORE THAN THE WIRE! Completely ruined, in the course of NORMAL USE. No, this isn't automotive wire. I wouldn't use this wire for a first-grade school project; I'm afraid of the liability. Absolutely worthless. There are two kinds of cheap items; 1) Relatively high value cheap items, like Amazon Basics cables and batteries, or cloned drivegears for 3D printers, or Chinese knockoff Arduinos 2) Low-cost, low-value items. Worthless items. Items that're cheap so you can afford to buy them at a whim, but valueless so it's a waste of the money too. This wire is all of the latter, and I genuinely believe there's going to be some liability lawsuit some day when some enthusiast's home burns completely to the ground because of this specific product. I'm not a lawyer, and nobody paid me to make this review. Nor can they pay me enough to revoke it.