27 Feb
2012
27 Feb
'12
3:07 p.m.
Not supplying spare parts for 'safety reasons'
(I've got news for
you. It can;'t be less safe for me to repair somethng with the right
parts than for me to have to werk out the imporat characteristics of
said parts and make soethign that will work).
Your safety is distinctly secondary there. The relevant safety is
_their_ safety, from liability suits. If they don't support user
repairs at all, they have a more effective legal shield against idiots
botching repairs and then blaming them. Calling it user safety is a
CYA measure on their part.
If more of the world had sane legal systems, this wouldn't be an issue.
But a discouragingly large fraction of the world isn't sane in that
regard.
There's also another effect at work: not providing parts raises the
bar. There are people who would attempt a repair given parts but,
faced with no easy-to-obtain "correct" parts, will give up and get a
new one rather than doing what you do and creating a suitable part or
deducing which stock item already is suitable.
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