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Companies like Richer sounds and John Lewis offer extended warranties as standard on their TVs. How can they do it yet pretty much everyone else can’t or won’t.
I struggle to believe like Foxeye that it’s not possible to make better, more reliable products for a similar or slightly higher price. It’s possible that they can but as it stands do not have the impetus to do it. Why should they if people are happy to pay money for what they are getting.
I brought a second hand washing machine that was not very old because the machine developed a horrible grinding/ rattling noise. The previous owner literally went out and brought the exact same machine as a replacement. It took me an hour or so to find the problem which was a loose plastic pump impeller. An hour or so of my time and some super glue later I had a fully functioning, rather cheap, perfectly good washing machine.
Their loss was my gain
. Except rather than requiring one washing machine and all the parts and resources that required to make it, they spent twice the money to purchase 2 machines because a cheaply made plastic pump had failed.
We really need to start moving away from the short sighted money motivated thinking, to a more longer term bigger picture way of thinking.
I struggle to believe like Foxeye that it’s not possible to make better, more reliable products for a similar or slightly higher price. It’s possible that they can but as it stands do not have the impetus to do it. Why should they if people are happy to pay money for what they are getting.
I brought a second hand washing machine that was not very old because the machine developed a horrible grinding/ rattling noise. The previous owner literally went out and brought the exact same machine as a replacement. It took me an hour or so to find the problem which was a loose plastic pump impeller. An hour or so of my time and some super glue later I had a fully functioning, rather cheap, perfectly good washing machine.
Their loss was my gain
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We really need to start moving away from the short sighted money motivated thinking, to a more longer term bigger picture way of thinking.