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Right to Repair - UK and EU making changes to facilitate repairs :)
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jpanhalt:
I do not know what Mahindra's policies are, but I suspect they are nowhere nearly as draconian as JD's. Why not let the market decide?  Of course, I have a conflict.  My tractor is an early 2000 Case with very low time.  I like to see it appreciate in value.
Zero999:

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Ah you mean the untested solution for a disease that doesn't exist, based on falsified "numbers" coming from an irrelevant test method...
Those conspiracy theorists...pfff

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It doesn't exist, until you know someone who's been seriously affected by it.  :palm: Take your conspiracy theories elsewhere.

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...said the conspiracy theorist that even doesn't understand Bayes theorem.
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It took you nearly a month to come back with that crap.  :palm: You're the one making false statements. Troll.

--- Quote from: jpanhalt on April 08, 2021, 09:57:27 pm ---I do not know what Mahindra's policies are, but I suspect they are nowhere nearly as draconian as JD's. Why not let the market decide?  Of course, I have a conflict.  My tractor is an early 2000 Case with very low time.  I like to see it appreciate in value.

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Market forces often act against the individual, because many people make poor choices and large companies dominate certain sectors.

Consumers often opt for lower upfront cost, rather than looking at the total cost of ownership. A classic example is the old incandescent light bulb which is very cheap to buy, but ends up costing more in increased electricity costs, compared to alternatives such as LED, with a higher upfront cost. This is why we need some level of regulation.
SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on April 09, 2021, 07:51:24 am ---[...]
Market forces often act against the individual, because many people make poor choices and large companies dominate certain sectors.

Consumers often opt for lower upfront cost, rather than looking at the total cost of ownership. A classic example is the old incandescent light bulb which is very cheap to buy, but ends up costing more in increased electricity costs, compared to alternatives such as LED, with a higher upfront cost. This is why we need some level of regulation.
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Consumers are naive in the extreme.  Take, for example, the market for housing, or cars.  People go all romantic about their dream homes/cars, and the only limit to how much they will pay is what the bank is willing to lend them.  Then, in hock to their eyeballs, with monthly payments for house, car, music, underwear, whatever someone managed to get them to pony up for monthly -   they end up with less discretionary spending power than the 15 year old boy working at the gas station...   so they buy the cheapest possible light bulb, because "we have to save money SOMEWHERE"!  :D
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This still comes down to those two old phrases, "beyond economic repair" and "no user servicable parts inside".

Often good things get dumpsterized simply because it's just not worth doing the repair. The price of the parts often exceeds the price of a new product. Which is a reflection of the economic cost of holding spares in a warehouse for years/decades plus, keeping a service team fully employed over the same period. Thus, my neighbour spent £150 having his lawn mower serviced. A new one is £190. But they did polish the roller.

Another barrier to servicing is the skillset required to affect a repair. Give you guys here on the EEVBlog a dead oscilloscope from a dumpster find and, in a few days, it will be giving years more of faultless service. Give the same to one of the "highly trained" monkeys at Acme Fixit Inc, and it goes back into the dumpster; because the fix was "too complex" or, they didn't know where to find a service manual. Or even how to read it.
SilverSolder:

A lot of repair work has become priced out of existence and is only "worth it" for really expensive items, except for people with the right skills having a go on a DIY basis...

Another way to look at it is: the price of manufacturing has dropped very far below the the cost of repairing.
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