Some of you are brighter than me and see where I’m going with this: you can’t sell these to your customer because he never gets clonked on the dome. He’s never under the hood; that’s why he comes and visits you!
I have long held a theory (jokingly—well, half-jokingly, anyway) that all hood struts are installed by an owner or a body man after a wreck. No matter how many I recommended in a general repair scenario, I never sold or installed a set. You’ll sell hatch and liftgate struts, sure, but nothing for the bonnet.
I suppose now we can add locking pliers to the PPE checklist, eh?