You think they're going to reduce the price of spare parts for an old
appliance? The price of a new magnetron for our old microwave (also
happened to be GE, but I doubt that the practice is peculiar to GE),
even from one of the online discount parts suppliers was more than the
cost of a new microwave. Spare parts are typically very expensive: ISTR
that any years ago somebody priced building some popular model of
automobile from parts and came up with a figure 10x that of just buying
the complete car.

Even closeout items are typically priced in relation to the original
price, not in relation to the price of the
newer/faster/quieter/better/cheaper one.

Perce


On 11/03/05 08:41 am Al Bundy tossed the following ingredients into the
ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

GE is not what it was when "Ronney" was advertising for it.
You got 11 years off a magnatron in a GE microwave? You are the man.
I understand that it's built in and you'd probably rather not deal with
changing it. However, a newer one probably would be fairly cheap and
easy to fit in there because the technology has made them lighter and
smaller.

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