I was poking around on the Henckels site and found that Henckels completely owns tweezerman. I've never used one, but I guess that means those insanely cheap badger brushes are out there for a reason. I can't speak to their quality, but if I had known about them when I started I'm sure they'd have been a big step up from the VDH POS I have. Plus its made in Germany- "Germans make good stuff right?" (quote from ShamWOW)
Just throwing it out there that it might not be crap just cus its cheap. Henckels does make some good stuff.