Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A company makes more profit replacing an entire circuit board that costs $20 > and charging $250 + 1 hour labor, than they do trouble shooting the board > for an hour and replacing $.10 and $1.00 parts.
Not to forget that formerly service departments used to be seen as necessary cost factors whereas nowadays even the last shithouse inside every organization has been turned into what they call a "profit centre". Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany private homepage: http://www.fotoralf.de manual cameras and photo galleries - updated Jan. 10, 2005 Contarex - Kiev 60 - Horizon 202 - P6 mount lenses -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net