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Jim Yanik

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On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:38:21 +0000 (UTC), (Don
Klipstein) wrote:

In article . com,
wrote:
the manufacturers are trying to figure out how to make them fail
sooner so you keep buying more.....

just think of it light sets that last forever? sales just STOP

currently there working on a tiny bomb to go off after a year or two
to discourage reuse. just part of the set will quit.......

And we'll buy from someone who does not timebomb them! Sales
throughout
the entire industry will plummet once ones that don't have burnout
problems hit the market. However, manufacturers of ones that do not
burn out will have continued sales from population growth and from
people who add more lights every year and from replacement of units
mangled by children, pets, accidents and lost during moves. Smart
consumers should cause burnout-ones to be the ones whose sales drop to
zero!

Remember "Forever Bright"? It appears to me they're still around,
only
with their lights now having the Philips name! Whether or not the
Philips ones are actually what was made under the "Forever Bright"
brand, you can get those at Target!
And if Philips starts timebombing them (I expect they have too much
to
lose in sales of other goods if they would stoop to doing that, so I
expect they won't), someone else will find a profit motive to sell
non-timebombed replacements!

- Don Klipstein )

Don, I doubt anyone thinks that much about a product that costs about
the same as a large coke from McDonalds.
Target had 100 lights for $1.89 before Christmas. If you go back there
the day after Christmas they are less than a buck. It is not worth
taking them off the tree you are throwing out. They are disposable.

Many locales "recycle" Xmas trees by shredding them and using them as
mulch.(real pine trees,not artificials)

So,leaving your Xmas lights on them either aborts that recycling or
contaminates it with non-degradable matal and plastic bits.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net