Re: OT..Sears Craftsman versus IHC Farmall..a litt

Posted by JT on August 19, 2006 at 06:43:54 from (70.226.220.119):

In Reply to: OT..Sears Craftsman versus IHC Farmall..a little l posted by David Allgire on August 18, 2006 at 18:14:07:

Sears does NOT manufacturer anything. Everything Sears sells is made by someone else. They have no desire to sell you parts, they want you to buy new equipment. As for the 10 year parts law, that law is not worth the paper it is written on. Most companies DO furnish parts for their euqipment, just not in the way YOU want them. They sell the whole pump, not the parts to fix them. If they furnished the parts to fix the cheap pressure washers people like to buy, then the cost of the pressure would be to the point you would not buy it, it would cost too much. If you go buy a 7-800.00 pressure washer, you can buy any part you want, but buy a 200.00 pressure washer, you cannot buy parts for it.
Why??? you ask.
Most of the time, if you can buy the parts, and pay someone to put them on and repair it, the cost to repair would excede the cost of a whole unit.Briggs and Stratton Portable Power products is a good example, they sell cheap pressure washers, and some are sold by Sears,you can buy parts, but the pumps are made of alumiun and when you take them apart and try to rebuild them, the still leak, they are warped, and a seal kit might cost 45.00

When the manufacturer makes replacement parts, part of the cost to set up manufacturing, manufactur, box, ship, sell the part will be inlcuded in the price of the machine you are buying and if these costs are added into the price of a 200.00 pressure washer, it them becomes a 350.00 pressure washer, that is cheap made, then it does not sell, too high priced fore what it is.
My friend, due to the type of world we live in, everyone wants a LOW priced product, then they do not not like the end result of a cheap product when it breaks, it gets replaced, the repair excedes the cost of repair, then no one wants it repaired, the look for a CHEAPER alternative, a new pressure washer, Then the manufacturer has all the excess parts sitting in a warehouse, not being sold, it is too costly to repair and use these parts, then the circle starts again.
Now you say you can get parts for a 1935-36-37-38 Farmall, but not a 5 year old Sears product. When that 1935-36-37-38 Farmall was bought, it was a hi dollar product, built to a very high standard of quality for the time it was built, not built because the end user wants something CHAEAP!!!

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