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Thread Number: 80628
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
The part I need to fix my Whirlpool Calypso is TOO EXPENSIVE!! |
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| Post# 1045939 9/25/2019 at 13:10 (1,674 days old) by MaytagNeptune (FireAlarmTechGuy4444 on YouTube. Interlochen MI) | ||
I need a new touchpad at first it was not clearing the display but now it's not even lighting up. A replacement is $129.95! This is too expensive for me. It seems like my machine has a "virus" that keeps causing critical components to fail. Because this happened 2 loads after I replaced the pump with the 1 piece unit. Should I wait for a donor or should I just condemn the machine and save the shell for the next one I find? The reason for saving the shell is to have one that is not too rusty. The part I need is here. https://www.ebay.com/itm/WHIRLPOOL-Calyp... CLICK HERE TO GO TO MaytagNeptune's LINK | ||
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Post# 1045972 , Reply# 1 9/25/2019 at 20:53 (1,674 days old) by combo52  (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Dead Calypso Touch Panel Hi Kelly, there are still a lot of donor panels out there, you can also use the panel from the Kenmore version of this neat machine and get a few more features.
We have several good used panels around if you want a deal on one, you can pick one up if you are near by or we can send it, Where are you located ?
John L. | ||
| Post# 1045997 , Reply# 2 9/26/2019 at 05:46 (1,674 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea)) | ||
A replacement is $129.95! Only about 30 times what it cost to make. The practice of overpricing parts is altogether dishonest but that's the near-universal state of US bidness in the 21st C. The idea being, churn inventory by making repair costs equal half the original purchase price. Disgraceful in a sector we snidely call "durable goods". | ||
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Post# 1046006 , Reply# 3 9/26/2019 at 07:03 (1,674 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1046007 , Reply# 4 9/26/2019 at 07:13 (1,674 days old) by henene4 (Heidenheim a.d. Brenz (Germany)) |
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As someone on the other side I can say that appliance parts are overpriced, but not 30 times. People forget cost for storage , management and upkeep of such parts over timeframes of 10 years or longer for hundreds of machines... | ||
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Post# 1046009 , Reply# 5 9/26/2019 at 07:34 (1,674 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Post# 1046012 , Reply# 6 9/26/2019 at 07:50 (1,674 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1046071 , Reply# 7 9/26/2019 at 20:11 (1,673 days old) by LowEfficiency (Iowa) |
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 >> A replacement is $129.95! >> Only about 30 times what it cost to make. Perhaps for the original production run. But the whole game changes when parts are no longer in production, and the warehouses are exhausted. The cost to make one today would be huuuuge, as the tooling and production lines are all decommissioned. $130 would be an absolute bargain. | ||
| Post# 1046085 , Reply# 8 9/27/2019 at 05:27 (1,673 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea)) | ||
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Well sure, making ONE from scratch would cost thousands. Once in production, the setup costs get divided among the entirety of the run, hundreds of thousands. In mfg quantities, the parts to make the board cost about $4. The only skilled labor is the guy who occasionally fixes the machine that makes it. Yeah, yeah, warehousing... that pays for itself in tax deductions/depreciation and APpreciation if they own the land.
Let's not forget, that a subsystem without moving parts should be expected to well outlast the machinery. But it doesn't. It's designed marginally on purpose. A lot fail. And the run is deliberately shorted the designed failure rate. All this puts the enduser cost of replacing a petty part an impractical fraction of the entire system cost. So you'll dumpster the whole thing between 4 and 7 years.
All THAT so the CEO can have a 4th house, with a 3rd pool, a backup yacht for when the other one is in the shop, and $10M to get rid of him when the board decides he's a chump. Call that honest?
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| Post# 1046178 , Reply# 10 9/28/2019 at 04:53 (1,672 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea)) | ||
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Touchpad on my µwave isn't broken. It has been shipped across the country twice and across the state 4 times. The date of manufacture is 1982, before such things were designed to fail as they are now. My W98 computer, including consumer-grade harddrive, has also been shipped across the state 4 times, handled by no-hablos, and it isn't broken either.
I don't know about EU taxes, just like you don't know about US taxes. Here, business taxes have been lobbied into a convoluted, highly-manipulable state. Such that, for example, most major blockbuster films never show a profit 'on the books'. And such that, what were intended as taxes can be used as profit centers to diminish 'on-record' liabilities. A euro can't arbitrarily assign as a cost, something that is written off in merikuh.
I stand by every assertion. This post was last edited 09/28/2019 at 05:11 | ||
| Post# 1051888 , Reply# 11 11/21/2019 at 21:30 (1,617 days old) by MaytagNeptune (FireAlarmTechGuy4444 on YouTube. Interlochen MI) | ||
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Post# 1052081 , Reply# 12 11/23/2019 at 13:48 (1,615 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Calsypo Control Panel | ||
| Post# 1052450 , Reply# 13 11/27/2019 at 10:55 (1,612 days old) by MaytagNeptune (FireAlarmTechGuy4444 on YouTube. Interlochen MI) | ||
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| Post# 1052717 , Reply# 14 11/29/2019 at 13:24 (1,609 days old) by MaytagNeptune (FireAlarmTechGuy4444 on YouTube. Interlochen MI) | ||
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