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there's room for the law to mandate disclosure of any built-in expiry mechanism - e.g., # of pages printed before printer stops working. I think the problem is
by chii 4y ago
there's room for the law to mandate disclosure of any built-in expiry mechanism - e.g., # of pages printed before printer stops working.
I think the problem is with the fact that this is just not disclosed properly, before a purchase decision is made, as it's not apparent that such a expiry mechanism can exist!
- Gigachad 4y agoEven if it was disclosed I don’t think it would help users all that much. There is already too much info to take in. The problem is that a printer is just not worth that much so buyers would rather just get whatever seems good and if it breaks in a few years they get a new one. People don’t have time to audit part lifetimes and compare the market when buying a $200 printer.
- chii 4y agobut it would help - those user would have a way to do comparisons, even if _some_ users don't care (in which case, this doesnt affect them).
- jjk166 4y ago> Even if it was disclosed I don’t think it would help users all that much. There is already too much info to take in. But it definitely wouldn't harm them, so even if the expected benefit is small it's still net positive. Whether it is worth their time to evaluate the market should be the customer's decision to make.