Sears and the Craftsman mystic

Sears doesn't really make anything, they just brand things as though they do.
When we bought the house, we accepted a number of things as being inconveniences and worked around them.
One thing that falls under this category is the garage door opener. We have a one and half car garage, and the opener had two remotes. One remote never worked, so I  thought of buying a replacement only to see the sticker price for Craftsman remotes to be about $50.
That's bizarre given that a new chain driven opener costs roughly $129.

 

Since we only had the space for one car, we just left the matter alone since we could just take the remote with the car we wanted parked in there or just as well use the keypad.
We did this until the second remote died last month.
Seriously thought about buying a new garage door opener, but it occurred to me that Sears isn't really a maker of things and that I should looking into other brands of remotes if I didn't find a deal on Ebay.
Sure enough, I found two new remotes for less than the price of one "Craftsman." Still wouldn't mind getting a quieter garage door opener, but that's an inconvenience I can ignore until the opener dies or we move.