If you look at the cost of the average new appliance today, they are
priced so low, it is not worth to repair these. This is another reason
why the manufactures no longer keep an infostructure to supply spare
parts. The admistration for spare parts is also costly.

If you buy a VCR for $80, would you pay a service tech an hour or two
of his time, plus the parts to fix it? If you look at the service
tech's overhead just to do the basic work, the repair cost would easily
exceed the price of a new unit!

I have seen these new types of units come in, and they are very crapy
built as far as their mechanics are conserned. The performance of the
electronics are very good for the low cost.

As for dependability, most of the new products may last about 2 years
on the average. For the low prices that they are asking, I would not
expect much more than that anyways...

Jerry G.
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