On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:58 AM, m...@watty <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Apr 6, 11:28 am, vasile surducan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Now doing electronics is like knocking nails with a hammer. Does your > > transistor burn? Yes, take it of and put another one. Does is burn again? > > Yes, do it again... without asking what the hell is the problem? > > :) > > > > Vasile > > You mean the folk don't just buy another TV now? > Of course they buy now because there are more TV's on the market than people need. Only large plasma TV's are repaired. > > In the 1980s in the near by city about 6 places repaired TVs. > Now none do. You can buy a new DVD player for less than it costs to > pay a real Engineer to take the cover off. We still have a couple of > "computer" & phone repair shops. But they don't fix anything, just > swap cracked screen or failed HDD. They all appear to be recently > arrived Asians, possibly not to grips with high cost of living here or > they'd only sell complete replacements :-( > The value of a product is higher when the offer is smaller than request. That's why a vacuum tube radio from 1935 is 100 times more expensive than an IC radio manufactured nowadays. Vasile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en.
