Cheap crap is made everywhere.
Unfortunately most of it is made in south east Asia, China, Thailand, Malaysia etc. because it's cheap to manufacture stuff in those countries.
(According to the latest sales laws electric appliances must not be sold under a warranty less than 10 years.)
Is that true?, it sounds EXTREMELY unlikely - people keep making all sorts of silly claims about EU warranties, yet the legislation they quote says no such thing.
take my word. It's (national) German law and has nothing to do with the EU crap. The government is about extending the warranty to 15 years for high quality electric appliances by law.
That's true, not piece of consumer electronics is designed to last for a decade - it's just not economical.
Maybe now-a-days but not so back in the 1950's to 1980's. Plenty of consumer electronics built to survive for decades of continuous use.
Bit optimistic, old gear was far more unreliable than modern gear - I know, I've repaired (and still repair) both. Old gear was bult for frequent, and expensive, servicing - and that's why it 'lasted'. "I've had this hammer 50 years, it's had 20 new shafts and 5 new heads"
It's really down to the VERY high cost of electronics back then - if you were paying a few months wages for a radio, then it made repairing them viable. Now when a 32 inch flat-screen TV costs less than an average weeks wage, it makes spending a few hundred dollars (or pounds) un-viable. If the TV cost $10,000 (as they should when compared to cars) then a couple of hundred dollars is very viable.
For what it's worth...until around 10 years ago I was still repairing Telefunken 711 and Philips K9 CRT TV's that were built around 1973/1974....
We are in 2010 right now. I saw the last of these sets around 2000.
These sets managed to last an incredible 25+ years. We only stopped fixing them because Delta guns for tubes became totally obsolete. Many of the chassis were in an amazing state for all the use they had. They were flat out good design from the word go. Properly engineered.
I hate the throw away society we have become.
I hate the throw away society we have become.
Not sure about paying twice the price, but the relatively recent economic downturn has shown that people are willing to work for less. Consider constantly-rising fuel prices along with the UK VAT going back up to 17.5%, as opposed to stagnant pay rates for the last few years.....less in the pocket no?A lot of the reasons why it's become so cheap to manufacturer things is because it can be done in the sweatshops of south east Asia rather in the US or EU where labour is expensive. People complain about their jobs going abroad but would they pay twice the price for things or work for much less?
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