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My $12 coffee grinder died mid pot last Saturday and the repair guy said something that stuck with me
Last Saturday morning my $12 blade grinder just stopped dead halfway through a batch of beans, so I drove it to a small repair shop on 5th street expecting them to say it was done for. The guy behind the counter opened it, laughed, and said the motor was fine, I had just been running it in 10 second bursts for two years and cooked the switch. He swapped in a $4 part instead of selling me a new one, and it hit me that I had been pricing cheap stuff as disposable without ever checking if it could just be fixed. Now I'm second guessing every time I toss something small that quits on me. Has anyone else had a cheap thing fixed for less than the cost of replacing it?
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nathan4921d ago
You ever notice how we only think about fixing stuff when it stops working? My toaster started acting up last year and I was already browsing new ones online before I even checked the bottom. Turns out it just had crumbs jammed in the lever thing, took me two minutes with a toothpick. Same deal with my mom's old blender, she was gonna trash it and the guy at the shop said the rubber ring wore out, five bucks and it runs like new. We're so trained to just replace everything that we forget half this stuff was built to be opened up and messed with. Makes you wonder how much money we all toss in the trash every year without even looking.
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