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<blockquote data-quote="Raven" data-source="post: 1065457" data-attributes="member: 558368">Ok, sometimes I wonder why you people insist on this whole &quot;Wreck it and get a new one&quot; philosophy.[story]Where I work, an 8 pound bag of ice is a $1.39. When I came across a sales slip, I was the store bought them for $0.65 cents apiece. The company that makes the ice has to take back and replace about 30% of their products for &quot;defects&quot;. These defects mostly come from the buyers complaining that their bag of ice has something incredibly stupid wrong with it. Tiny hole in the bag, the ice is one big block (which means you punch the ****ing bag really hard to break it up, morons), the outside of the plastic bag the ice is in is dirty, just really dumb stuff that in no way affects how the ice does what ice does. About 5% have real ice effecting defects.The company makes the bag of ice for $0.32 apiece, adds 30% to compensate for these wastes, and then 20% to make a living. The store then marks it up 110% because not only do they have to hassle with ice company about &quot;defective&quot; merchandise, but they also have to apologize and waste time making the upset customer happy, and pay me to dump out the perfectly good ice, and waste a lot of hot water to turn the perfectly good ice into perfectly good water that goes down a drain, and then to restock the ice shelf with another perfectly good bag of ice someone might or might not ***** over.Same goes for every storefront that sells 12v electronics. If I blow up my Jensen within the 18 months left on the warranty, I will return it. But I&#039;m not gonna try to blow it up with anything more&nbsp; than the usual abuse I give it. That&#039;s just another $100 that BB has to push on everyone else.[/story]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven, post: 1065457, member: 558368"] Ok, sometimes I wonder why you people insist on this whole "Wreck it and get a new one" philosophy. [story] Where I work, an 8 pound bag of ice is a $1.39. When I came across a sales slip, I was the store bought them for $0.65 cents apiece. The company that makes the ice has to take back and replace about 30% of their products for "defects". These defects mostly come from the buyers complaining that their bag of ice has something incredibly stupid wrong with it. Tiny hole in the bag, the ice is one big block (which means you punch the ****ing bag really hard to break it up, morons), the outside of the plastic bag the ice is in is dirty, just really dumb stuff that in no way affects how the ice does what ice does. About 5% have real ice effecting defects. The company makes the bag of ice for $0.32 apiece, adds 30% to compensate for these wastes, and then 20% to make a living. The store then marks it up 110% because not only do they have to hassle with ice company about "defective" merchandise, but they also have to apologize and waste time making the upset customer happy, and pay me to dump out the perfectly good ice, and waste a lot of hot water to turn the perfectly good ice into perfectly good water that goes down a drain, and then to restock the ice shelf with another perfectly good bag of ice someone might or might not ***** over. Same goes for every storefront that sells 12v electronics. If I blow up my Jensen within the 18 months left on the warranty, I will return it. But I'm not gonna try to blow it up with anything more than the usual abuse I give it. That's just another $100 that BB has to push on everyone else. [/story] [/QUOTE]

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