In this age of Government pressure to be greener, recycle goods etc would it not be a plan for them to start attacking manufactures that make goods designed to last 12 months 2-3 days then break?
If the goods we bought were built to last (as was the situation in the old days) then our landfill sites wouldn't be full of fridges and other redundant electrical equipment just outside their warrantee. Has anyone ever looked into the circuitry of items produced to see if they are in fact adding in self destruct timers?
Yes, if they build thing to last then they are effectively narrowing their market but the electrical product scrapheap certainly needs sorting!
What say you??
2007-07-24 23:47:32 · 4 answers · asked by conesplitter 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
Money buys quality - not enough people realise that simple fact.
Too many people are obsessed with "What's the cheapest (i.e. poorest quality)...?", rather than spending a few more quid on something that LASTS. Check out Yahoo! Answers for many examples of this stupid way of buying electrical goods
If you buy cheap and nasty products, they will fail very quickly - if you spend a bit more money, the item you buy will last for years.
Until we get away from the, 'buy cheap throw it away' mentality, this wastage will continue...
2007-07-25 04:32:01 · answer #1 · answered by Nightworks 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This has a lot more to do with economics than the quality of new versus old products. In the good old days they built just as much "junk" as they do today. The reality is that the junk from the old days has disappeared into oblivion - Trash heap.
The reason we think that all the old stuff is built better is because only the well built stuff survived to this day so we tend to see it that way. The old stuff looks like it was built better only because of our historical perspective.
Economically this is important because most people buy a product because of looks, price, and availability - not because of quality! This concept has never changed. Manufacturers and sales people know this...
2007-07-25 08:00:04 · answer #2 · answered by Bruce B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are right, we are living in a world where products and goods are made to last on a certain amount of time, so you HAVE to buy replacements.
2007-07-25 06:53:45 · answer #3 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I say that the government needs to start running itself better before it imposes plans on others.
2007-07-25 06:55:17 · answer #4 · answered by kitty fresh & hissin' crew 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋