Date: 18 Jan 2002 23:09:56 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New European Warranty Message-ID: <xzpelknb9aj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20020118224754.A804@tisys.org> References: <20020118224754.A804@tisys.org>
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Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> writes: > In the computing field, I have made the following observations: If > you buy a mainboard, CPU, graphics card or whatever, it is likely > that it would fail *very early* if there is actually some > manuafcturing defect. [...] The failure rate for such devices is > somewhat high in the beginning, then gets low for a lot years, and > as the device really becomes old, the failure rate increases again. This is known as the "bathtub curve". > In the end, what I've been wondering about is this: What's the good thing > about this new warranty regulation? The folks that made it up probably > wanted to protect the customers, but realistically, if I have to pay a > higher price on about *every* item I buy and only benefit from the extended > warranty in 1% of the cases or so, doesn't it do more bad than good? I think you'll change your tune the day your 7-month old motherboard fries and you get a new one under warranty thanks to the new European regulation :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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