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Yes you can buy new machines cheap now. "Cheap" of course being the
operative word here unfortunately. From a consumer point of view
though, (actually I'm not one, as most of my "newer" stuff came from
customers who didn't want to spend the money to repair it).
I would be really ****ed to only get short service out of new
equipment purchases. I have a 22 year old Goldstar microwave oven that
we got for looking at a Time share property years ago. All of my
televisions are pre Columbus including the 1966 21 inch round Zenith.
My appliances too. They all work just fine. I would not even THINK
about buying new.
But as long as the world sactions the sad fact that Chinese prisoners
and underpaid others from third world countries are making these
products which we so crave in factories often in conditions so
deplorable that they would be unimaginable to the civilized world, with
their only compensation perhaps being allowed to remain alive this
bull**** will continue.
Meanwhile greedy manufacturers like Sony who speced out this piece of
crap motor won't sell replacement parts. Why can't the FTC or some
other useless Gov't entity which our wasted taxes support do something
about this? Lenny Stein, Barlen Electronics