Manufacturing defect with Bose QC2

Bought my QC2 about 1 year ago. Love the noise canceling especially on long flights. Unfortunately, this past month, one of the plastic 'cover' that holds the metal headband broke. I though maybe somebody hit the headset and broke it, but upon closer inspection, I notice a LOT of tiny plastic cracks all along the plastic pieces on both side of the headset. I'm really disappointed in BOSE for cutting costs on such an important piece... I would imagine they would have paid the extra $0.10 that it would cost to use a better grade of plastic... Never buying BOSE again (it is not worth spending this much money for something that breaks apart all by itself!)

Cheap quality and expensive. I absolutely do not recommend these headphones because they will not last...

Update
A friend of mine bought a set a few weeks ago. I had a look at it, and it seems they changed the design. Only time will tell if the change will do the trick. If it help, old = beige, new = grey. This might be the way to tell the old version from the new version (not 100% sure on this though).