I worked for a Fortune 500 Company out of Dayton, OH where I was instructed to no longer repair equipment if it was over 5 five years just so they could sell new equipment and that equipment was designed to easily repaired.
Oh some equipment is quite repairable but these companies jack the part prices so high vs the equipment replacement cost it becomes unrepairable. Again I worked for a dealer for another major manufacture company where we needed to do warranty work at the dealer. We had machines that sold $99 and if the printer went out the manufacture wanted $300 for one. We could buy new machines and part them out cheaper then buying the repair parts. Or in the case of Chinese equipment can't even get the parts most times as they don't intend for us to repair those items.
Maybe this just an American manufacture operating style. It doesn't make any sense to drive your customers away by being greedy but just look how messed our national government is currently with a hard headed business man running it in to the ground. He has it shutdown and won't give saying he keep shut down for months if not years until he gets his way. Apparently Congress is afraid of him as they can override his veto if they wanted to.
Sorry don't mean to get political here as I not taking sides but I would like to see things getting done smoothly. I am plain ashamed of what is going on.
