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First you criticize that units will fill landfills, then you suggest they make 2 units for every 1 purchased?

• mschuster91 4y ago
  Alternatively, you can design your units to be easily repairable so you can stockpile spare parts, and do proper testing to reduce the amount of products that fail in the first place. The problem is that virtually anonymous sellers and dropshippers on Alibaba and Amazon can and will undercut the pricing that is required to support that kind of infrastructure and development - and I'm not sure what the correct way is to prevent that, while still allowing start-ups and small shops to sell stuff in the EU. Maybe an idea would be to make exemptions for small scale runs - think of something like a combination of: - below 1000 units sold in total for a company over all its lineup - at least the development work of the product must be domestic in origin (i.e. the company must be domiciled in the EU and at least 50% of the development work must be done by that company - that leaves startups free to hire overseas talent, but prohibits dropshipping China crap or production of pre-existing designs) - handling warranty claims must be done in the EU, with a requirement of "repair first" to incentivize feedback into product development.
• rtpg 4y ago
  I was being glib, offering it as a way out of the supposedly unsolvable problem. The real thing is to calibrate based on return rates etc, and of course if your devices can _just be fixed_ that’s great.