Re: Beware of LG


"Yugo" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

Ed said:
Toaster technology is about the same as it was 50 years ago.


Yugo replied:
Then, she bought a nice Philips toaster, you know that Dutch associate of
LG. Hardly more than a year later, just as the guarantee was finished, it
broke: the handle wouldn't stay down. I called Philips and said there was
no way my mother would pay $80 a year for a toaster. Knowing that they
would get their money's worth in publicity, they sent a new one.

Now, my mother is dead and I have the **&&?%$ toaster. The part that holds
the bottom of the toast has three prongs on each side and they're not
evenly spaced, so that there's more than an inch between some of them. I
like french parisian bread and the latest slice is small and falls easily
inbetween two prongs.

But the technology is the same. Heated wires taosting bread. You can get
them for $7 at WalMart and they perform rather closed to the $200 unit made
in England. Aside from that one, (can't remember the brand right now) they
are all made in China for cheap. When they fail you may be able to repiar
them, but it is not cost effective when new is less than $10.




In conclusion, if our computers and appliances go awry so fast, it's not
so much because modern manufacturing processes, per se, make things cheap.
It's because there're specifically designed to break fast.

Perhaps some things are, but there is a balance to dance around. Do you
want to pay for a printer that will last for 50 years of home use when you
will want a better performing one in 2 or 5 years? Look at what our parents
had, what we had even 30 years ago, and compare that to the computers,
printers, cameras, etc that we can afford today. Do you want to keep that
14" Zenith black & white TV going yet?




First, landfill considerations shouldn't be set aside: electronic products
contains a lot of toxic elements, which are still rarely recycled. Then,
it's just amazing what you can fix with a few instructions and basic
tools. You'd ba amazed at how many appliances are thrown away just because
current is not fed to them.

I agree with recycling, some things should last a very long time, but others
are best receycled and replaced both from a cost point of view and practical
use point of view. I intend on keeping my toaster for as long as I live, but
I'm not so sure I want back my 8088 computer with two floppy drives and no
hard drive, with the 10" monochrome monitor. I paid $999 for it. What a
bargain.



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