Pre-Planned Obsolescence

[dumb person]

Originally Posted by studearch

I think there's a market for vehicles that last and are easily, cheaply repaired by the owners with simple tools. It worked once and it's time has come again.

There is a market, and some guy who likes to invest his money in businesses bought some cheap japanese car from the early 90s because it is that simple & very cheap to run. But he has not enough money to start up a company to produce simple cars & neither do i. i would like to try but did you ever see the movie about the car made by tucker? If a simple but extremely functional car has only 0.5-1% of the market no big company would bother to make it, but hopefully would not see it as eating into their sales either so it might just be a success.

[aceW]

New models of car will always come out every year, new media players, TVs and so forth will always be churning out. The only way to really beat planned obsolescence is to buy things as cheaply as possible. That way, at least you aren’t getting ripped off as much.

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Originally Posted by aceW

New models of car will always come out every year, new media players, TVs and so forth will always be churning out. The only way to really beat planned obsolescence is to buy things as cheaply as possible. That way, at least you aren’t getting ripped off as much.

I ALWAYS buy last year's leftover new cars! Shucks, they smell NEW to me! I always con them into putting a new battery in it, when I see ARC marks on the battery terminals from "jumping" or charging!! Bill W.

[emsmith]

Here's a familiar scenario: the washer or television breaks down, so an individual calls the producer for a spare part. However, they are informed the part isn't really made anymore, so they'll have to just purchase a new one. That's called planned obsolescence and it is included in just about any product one can name.