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Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?



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>---- Original Message ----
>From: quotations@aliceadsl.fr
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?
>Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:19:56 +0100
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>>Dne, 10. 12. 2009 16:40:39 je Thierry Chatelet napisal(a):
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>>> 
>>> 1. This is spare parts. Unfortunately, there cost has nothing to
>do
>>> with the 
>>> price of whatever you bought at first. Build a car from spare
>parts,
>>> you will 
>>> pay it a few hundred times the price of a new one.
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>>Agreed, it's spare parts. But buying a spare battery for your car
>will 
>>hardly set you back for 14% of the total cost of a new car.
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>>It seems I may have phrased my question awkwardly, so let's try to 
>>rephrase it:
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>>Would you ever buy a car -- or even a mobile phone -- where the
>spare/
>>replacement battery cost 14% of the entire car/phone retail price?
>Say 
>>you got the cheapest Clio or Fiesta for just under 10.000?, but
>would 
>>have to pay over 1400? for a replacement battery when the old one
>died? 
>>Now, that would be an extremely peculiar business model in my view
>;)
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>>Klistvud
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The printer people do this all the time with the price (not cost) of
replacement cartridges.
Larry
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