why do items always break a short time after the free warranty runs out?

Answer 1

Company's do extensive research on their products and know that each component has a number of guarantied operations.
Cheap parts only barely able to do the job or underrated electronic components will only last so long.
Consumer demand for cheap goods unfortunately leads to short lifespans of products.

Answer 2

if something bad can happen- it will...thats Murpheys Law...

"Murphy's Law says that if anything can go wrong, it will. But, this stupid law applies to itself: itself can go wrong, that is, there must be a situation where something can go wrong and it won't go wrong. So, Murphy Law is paradoxal.

* The pot of gold is on the other side of the rainbow.
* Someone else will always get the last ice cream.
* When a farang (foreign person) gets married to a woman from Thailand, and he later finds out that she was a man (katoey). Even if the Thai woman is actually a woman, she may have many flaws, such as laziness, very demanding, stubborn, and only marries for money and not for love.
* When one attempts to hit a nail, one will always hit one's finger.
* It is always sunny on Wednesday afternoons.
* It always rains outside.
* Toast will always fall with the buttered side down.
o And you can never tell the right side of the toast to butter.
+ This is true for common heights of tables, in Japan this is not true.
* When one searches with a search engine, one ends up on Wikipedia, not on Uncyclopedia.
* When you are looking for something that is in a pile, it is always next to the grue.
o The grue will eat you if you touch it.
* When waiting in line, the line you're in will move quickest, but you will break your leg while waiting.
o Or, your line will be the slowest and you will still break your leg.
* If you like women, chances are, you're a lesbian.
* When teasing scorpions, they will always transpire to have a masochistic streak and actually develop an affection for you for having done so.
* The light at the end of a tunnel is normally the light of an oncoming train.
* All your base, indeed, are belong to us.
* If you flip to the Comedy channel, you get Sinbad's comedy hour.
* If you like pina coladas, you most likely won't get caught in the rain (and vice versa)
* any tool dropped while repairing a car will roll to the exact center (or anyplace out of reach) under the car.
* a Smith&Wesson always beats four aces.
o Unless they are thrown by a ninja.
* never play leapfrog with a unicorn.
* a coin dropped while sitting on a couch will lodge itself in the only place you think not to look.
* If you are a student and you studied 99chapters out of hundred, then your whole exam will only come from the one chapter you left.
* If you are working on an important project, any dogs and/or cats in the house will immediately place themselves upon it".

Answer 3

Hey! We had a fridge that is still going, as far as we know, that we bought in 1966. It was in our shop until 2003 and we left it there, still working perfectly!

However, our Washing Machine was written off the day BEFORE the Insurance ran out so we are getting a brand new one!
Luck? Good old Murphy (in reverse)!!

Answer 4

Nothing is designed to last forever. They are designed with parts that will break down or wear out at a given amount of service life. These are normally refered to as common fail items and are listed with symptoms of failure in technical service manuals.

Answer 5

Because the makers know how long the life span of their products are & they would lose a fortune if the warranty was long enough to cover the whole time.
Sorry to sound so cynical.

Answer 6

Murphy's Law.

Answer 7

Check the meaning of the term "Murphy's Hypothesis".

Answer 8

isn't that the 64,000,000 question!
maybe because these companies buy and build cheap, so inorder to keep there business going and profiting, they make sure they only last so long, and because it is that cheap, you would rather buy a new one instead of getting it repaired!

Answer 9

That's life!

Answer 10

There is a little Chinaman in there with a hammer & a calendar.