I disagree that the whole argument is moot but the yes those are made up numbers. The gist of the argument sounds about right to me. I had a vacuum cleaner br

I disagree that the whole argument is moot but the yes those are made up numbers. The gist of the argument sounds about right to me. I had a vacuum cleaner break and I took it to a local fix-it man and he wanted $80 dollars to fix in parts, labor and tax and wanted it for the week. The vacuum is $130 dollars (MSRP) on amazon right now and $70 on sale. My used vacuum probably is only worth $30 working. I'm pretty sure that this is because there are not many stores of that type and he probably doesn't get much traffic so charges appropriately. I could shop around and find someone better but there are few options and that quote was already a waste of my time at this point. I think that over time these costs could come down if there was demand as there would be competition and probably sufficient numbers to make it worthwhile. I would like to see more devotion to maintenance and repair but currently the numbers seem unfavorable at least for small appliances.