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Originally Posted by HarryT
As a matter of interest, how much more would you be willing to pay for a Kindle with a guaranteed defect-free screen? The Kindle is sold essentially at cost price, so any increase in QA inevitably would result in a price increase.
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If someone would be able to offer me a hyper-speed Kindle with the processing power of a top mobile phone, one that has a perfect screen, gets software updates and warranty through Amazon for 5 years, I'd easily pay €250 for it. That's €50 a year: less than half of what I'd pay if I buy the latest Kindle each year.
I habitually buy notebooks in the range of €1500; three times as expensive as a low-end notebook. The difference is that I get 5 years of warranty, and a well-built notebook, that can easily be upgraded, while the people buying the €500 systems get told "Go away and die" after the first year, both by the store and the manufacturer, if something goes wrong. Also, many of these cheap plastic notebooks tend to fall apart after 1 or 2 years (after the warranty ends of course), and need to be replaced. When looking at "cost per year", my "expensive" notebook is often cheaper than a cheap notebook.
My desktop computers are in the same price range; my current one was €1200 or something when I bought it. It's now 6 years old. It was upgraded with a new graphics card, CPU and SSD in 2011 for peanuts, especially after selling the older graphics card and CPU. Half a year ago it got an extra hard drive. It still stomps many of the cheaper new systems of today into the ground.
So yes, I'd pay for quality, but then again, I can, because I don't want to (and don't need to) replace my stuff every year.