Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard, At least when you bought your machines you had the option of purchasing a well designed and engineered machine. As retailers look to limit stock to the 100/10000 top turning SKU's any item that doesn't turn inventory will not be reordered. Price becomes an issue as fewer people can descriminate what is quality and what is not so let price rule. Consumerism plays a part here as well. Rather than have a few very nice things, most would rather have a whole bunch of shiny junk just ot say that they have one of everything. B.D. briefly touched on this when commenting on the relative price of a proposed dM and a D30 or the Oly line. Why would someone pay 5K for a box that does what a 1.4K box does? It is for the same reason that I won't buy a product from an American car company. Shaving a few cents off every part every cycly means that the product is exactly what the contract calls for. Shortly after the designed life they all start to fail, very annoying. Getting back to washers and dryers, on a $500 purchase, a few dollars a year in ineffeceincy is worth it to avoid replacing a routine appliance that lives behind closed doors or in the basement. The same for other tools, I would like to get to know one tool really well rather than have to learn the same functionality numerous times. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 6/13/06, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote: > > Right! On the other hand I have no experience with Maytag > replacement parts since neither machine has ever broken down. ;-) > > In today's thinking that has to mean they were seriously overbuilt. > :-) (And expensive. They were about $350 each in 1970, that would > be about $2,000 - $2,500 each today, if not more.) > > jon.stanton@comcast.net wrote: > > >The 35yr old Maytag was probably built here in the USA...but then > >the OEM replacement parts are probably all made in the PRC... > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Leica Users Group. > >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- > Regards, > > Dick > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >