> > > >---- Original Message ---- >From: quotati...@aliceadsl.fr >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery? >Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:19:56 +0100 > >>Dne, 10. 12. 2009 16:40:39 je Thierry Chatelet napisal(a): >> >>> >>> 1. This is spare parts. Unfortunately, there cost has nothing to >do >>> with the >>> price of whatever you bought at first. Build a car from spare >parts, >>> you will >>> pay it a few hundred times the price of a new one. >> >>Agreed, it's spare parts. But buying a spare battery for your car >will >>hardly set you back for 14% of the total cost of a new car. >> >>It seems I may have phrased my question awkwardly, so let's try to >>rephrase it: >> >>Would you ever buy a car -- or even a mobile phone -- where the >spare/ >>replacement battery cost 14% of the entire car/phone retail price? >Say >>you got the cheapest Clio or Fiesta for just under 10.000, but >would >>have to pay over 1400 for a replacement battery when the old one >died? >>Now, that would be an extremely peculiar business model in my view >;) >> >>-- >>Regards, >> >>Klistvud >>Certifiable Loonix User #481801 >>http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com >> >> The printer people do this all the time with the price (not cost) of replacement cartridges. Larry >>-- >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org >> >>
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