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by vanattab
3811 days ago
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I have been thinking of building an online marketplace called "unplaningobsolescence.com" that would only sell products with 10yr+ warranties but I haven't had the time. P.S. yes I know that would be a terrible url for a online store but I like it. |
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Like paint rollers that have the extra 1p worth of plastic in the handle so they don't break after 2 uses; shoes where original replacement soles are available; tin-openers where you can replace the cutting disc; kettles without the over complicated carefully thinned plastic components in the lid release; swing bins with the couple of pence of metal in the lid hinge to make them last for decades instead of years; washing up liquid that has a dosing pump delivering a carefully calibrated dose to avoid wastage.
Very simple cheap goods where the engineering objective isn't profit but instead the goods are designed for longevity balanced with matching market prices as close as possible. Making the goods that companies don't want to make because they would cut in to future sales.
All items sold would be "open source" (schematics available) and bug report systems for feedback from users would be in place to aid in improvements. New designs would change only the parts that were deficient, MTBFs would be used to keep production capacity to meet anticipated parts failures.
Basically attempting to push the value of longevity on to the market. The aim would be to match the prices of low cost goods but make them last longer. The idea is to force companies to match for longevity, and then push again to continually match the base prices as close as possible but always with significant improvement on product engineering.
Not financially doable, far too economical for Western financially systems I suspect ...