What are people's thoughts on some of these legislative bills also requiring a company to sell repair parts? I mean, I get that a requirement like this is the only way to give the bill some teeth, otherwise the company could just not sell replacement parts. But it also galls me a little that we are saying if you want to do business X you must also incur the costs to do business Y.
And does the company have to sell all of the parts? Or just ones that could be replaced? If just replaced, couldn't it be made to not have anything replaceable (Hi, Apple!)
Does the company get to set the price of the replacement part to the repair company? If so, couldn't the company just make the replacement part cost as much as a new product? Or are price controls going to be implemented? Do we want to be saying "you must sell part X for cost Y"?
Maybe these are just implementation details.
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Re: Re: Bill requirements
I must not have been clear. This isn't my proposal, it is part of some of the legislative bills: replacement parts must be available.
Bill requirements
What are people's thoughts on some of these legislative bills also requiring a company to sell repair parts? I mean, I get that a requirement like this is the only way to give the bill some teeth, otherwise the company could just not sell replacement parts. But it also galls me a little that we are saying if you want to do business X you must also incur the costs to do business Y.
And does the company have to sell all of the parts? Or just ones that could be replaced? If just replaced, couldn't it be made to not have anything replaceable (Hi, Apple!)
Does the company get to set the price of the replacement part to the repair company? If so, couldn't the company just make the replacement part cost as much as a new product? Or are price controls going to be implemented? Do we want to be saying "you must sell part X for cost Y"?
Maybe these are just implementation details.