Just not designed for american sized money and cards. Would likelyNope, just bad design.
Wrong, most obviousy with the card pockets that the cards wont fit into.
Anyone with a clue would return a wallet like that, so there
is absolutely no point in designing it like that deliberately.
Because it clearly wasnt. Novel concept I realise.
The definition of negligence.You do not u nderstand what is the meaning of words such as "intent"
or "intentional". An act is intentional if its outcome is known. So if
tey make a wallet that would not hold credit cards, or a tea kettle
with obviously inadequate hinges -- the outcome is known and that is,
therefore, an intentional outcome.
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There's the key, an extra few cents. 2 cents times 2 million kettles and
you're talking 40 grand, that's not minuscule, even for a big company.
10 cents is even more significant, when you're manufacturing millions of
things, pennies *do* matter. You can get something that cost an extra 10
cents to make, but it will cost you an extra 10 bucks to buy and the
average consumer not knowing the difference will buy the cheaper one.
It's all about offering the lowest price and making the most profit per
sale, they don't intentionally try to make it break, they just don't
care if it does so long as it lasts through the warranty.
There is no practical alternative, like I said.
The public certainly isnt going to wear 'environmental'
fools proclaiming that they cant have modern electronic
devices because of some purported long term costs.
And what long term costs there are are completely trivial
compared with the long term costs of the food industry
alone, let alone the car industry, etc etc etc anyway.
Same thing with CD ROM drives.It would seem that you are a stranger to good manners...and would not
know the truth if it bit you on the butt.
The current DVD sales are a typical case of market dumping...happens
all the time.
Get back to me in a few years and let's talk about how many DVD sets
are being trashed because of failures.
Ask any repair person how the quality of VHS players have declined over
the years...the same goes with DVD units. I have some older DVD units
that cost serious money and their internal design is excellent. The
newer units are built with intended obselescene in mind...in other
words they are built like crap. Guess which ones will be running a few
years from now? You might want to check the numbers on returns of DOA
units also....many of the currently cheap units don't work out of the
box.
And oh...one more thing...are you posting from China?
You haven't dealt with the finance people I have....they are.No one would actually be that stupid.
The trouble is that there is no easy to way get a real handle on what
products on offer will last significantly longer with most appliances.
And its arguable how many really care that much about that sort of
thing now with the appliances so cheap and so trivially affordable.
being made - but the imposition of a $10 disposal fee at the consumer
level has ended up with all kinds of monitors etc being dumped beside
the road.
Wrong approach.
Pay the consumer $10 for proper disposal and the roadside dumping will
disappear over night. Correct. Definitely.
As I said, the disposal is being charged against the consumer at the
end of life of the product...in time the politicians will get it right
and charge for it at the beginning of the product sale.
TMT
I sold many of the first CD ROM drives sold in Canada. We are talking
1985 ish. That's TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO. Some of those drives are still
fully functional.
Today's crop don't last 5 years (actually, that's YESTERDAY's crop.)
I'm replacing 2 year old "brand name" CD drives quite regularly.
The environment is completely irrelevant. Discarded electronic
devices are a trivial part of the total waste and manufacturing
stream and the environmental downsides are back in china
with the manufacturing anyway.
Nope - the particular units in question are running on dual conversion
UPS power - a perfectly clean and seperately derived power source.
Also running high end SMPS power supplies.
They do.
When all stores sell the same items
and no salesperson can convince the consumer that any given product is better than all of the rest
people will choose the cheapest.
Tell that to the guys that build the elevator portion of the mill.
All the pipe transitions etc. have been standardized for many
years by these guys. They designed something that works, that
is relatively simple to build, and they just keep right on using it.
Too_Many_Tools said:LOL...you mean an industry that has so far been able to dump long term
costs on the public.
When you see electronics being dumped in Africa to avoid the cost of
disposal, I think we are seeing the responsibility coming home to roost
soon.
And when the cost of disposal is finally taken into account, the true
cost of electronics will be adjusted for that disposal.
It can't come soon enough....
