Re: What a Scam!

From: PaPaPeng (papapeng_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 05:20:39 GMT

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:28:20 -0500, "Jerry G." <jerryg50@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>s for the low to medium end CD players and VCR's very few people are
>servicing them. The cost for the labour alone, is just too high to make it
>worth it. For the low end units, many of the manufactures are no longer
>supplying or stocking replacement parts. It just does not pay.
>
>As for legislation to make price control, this will never happen in our
>society. If this starts, this will be the downfall of the way we live. There
>is the aspect of price and demand. If a company starts to charge too high,
>they will find that they will not be in business much longer.
>
>--
 
There exists legislation that manufacturers must stock spare parts for
out of production equipment for seven years (or some length of time
like that.) This was enacted in the 80s in response to consumer
complaints that manufacturers were gouging consumers by forcing them
to buy new models when a spare part costing a few dollars would have
kept the equipment chugging along fine for a few more years. The
manufacturer's work around to comply with the law was to make
replacement parts prohibitively expensive. Of course original
equipment is so inexpensive these days that repairs are never worth
the time and effort even if one has the inclination to tinker.

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