tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post817598511187800727..comments2024-03-28T00:11:33.489-04:00Comments on bensozia: The Right to RepairJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-43394446952466305842020-10-26T14:53:48.343-04:002020-10-26T14:53:48.343-04:00@Shadow,
In the dish washers I have recently owne...@Shadow,<br /><br />In the dish washers I have recently owned, from two different manufacturers, the buttons interact directly with the circuit board, which sits right behind them. So while they may not move, they are touched by some element of the button, and for whatever reason that can very quickly stop working.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-82181615214870724052020-10-26T11:30:16.742-04:002020-10-26T11:30:16.742-04:00Dangit, did it again. I'm getting careless. Th...Dangit, did it again. I'm getting careless. That's my post above.G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-52426919562402868202020-10-26T11:29:27.215-04:002020-10-26T11:29:27.215-04:00I wonder, though, how much impact all of this can ...<i>I wonder, though, how much impact all of this can have in a world in which keeping devices going is mostly about insuring their various chips are talking properly to each other; how many local repair shops can do that?</i><br /><br />I don't see how it matters - if the repair is possible, people should be able to do it themselves, or hire whoever they prefer to do it for them.<br /><br />There are plenty of other things that require a certain degree of expertise to do correctly, but we don't allow people to artificially monopolize the market for those services. If you need surgery, no one can stop you from finding a different surgeon willing to perform the operation.<br /><br />Imagine if surgical techniques could be restricted and doctors could be prevented from having access to life-saving information! Or if pharmaceutical companies got away with blanket refusals to sell life-saving drugs to independent doctors! Or if hospitals were allowed to knowingly perform shoddy work that would require patients to come back in for further treatment down the line! Imagine the outrage!<br /><br />Imagine if we built homes the way we let manufacturers build appliances! Construction techniques kept secret, to prevent independent labor from being able to offer repair or renovation services! Requiring special proprietary tools or access codes to make work impossible! Blanket refusals to sell construction materials to outsiders! Houses intentionally designed not to last, in order to force you to pay the original builders to get them fixed! We'd be protesting in the streets!<br /><br />This is nothing less than monopoly-by-duress, and it should be <i>wildly</i> illegal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-75078014578578561692020-10-26T10:30:24.180-04:002020-10-26T10:30:24.180-04:00Circuit boards are very reliable, mostly because t...Circuit boards are very reliable, mostly because there have no moving parts. Usually you burn in the boards in the factory for X hours, and if by the end of X hours they are still working then they are very likely to keep working for the life of the machine. Yeah, sometimes the fail, but to have three fail in the same machine? Shadowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05353532874773316117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-10602452467424759882020-10-26T09:32:23.306-04:002020-10-26T09:32:23.306-04:001. Daughter bought a Very expensive refrigerator t...1. Daughter bought a Very expensive refrigerator two years ago, after much research... the ice maker in the door has never worked, The repairman said he’d order a new door, because the ice maker is in the door. Never came in. They received a check for the price of the WHOLE refrigerator in the mail yesterday. Never got a bill for the repairs! At least the manufacturer was honest about their inability to repair!<br />2. When I bought a washer, online, the delivery men told me that they pick up almost new ones due to the buyers not understanding about the automatic water leveling. They take those directly to the dump. It costs more to return them to the warehouse and resell them.<br />3. When I bought a GE front-load washer it’s spindle, on which the washer basket rests and turns, disintegrated in gravel. The repairman said they were made of ‘Pot metal’ which disintegrates in soapy water. He was seeing most of the front loaders have this problem at 5 years. Cost of labor to repair $400, cost of part $400. New washer: $1000.<br />4. Mother bought a GE refrigerator that the repairman said had a freezer that was too big for it to keep ice frozen. Never worked. Her GE wall oven caught on fire due to faulty wiring as soon as it was used.<br />I should have sold my GE Stock then. Bad engineering? Bad management?Susihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08491909280925749677noreply@blogger.com