It's Pay Now or Pay Later With Consumer Electronics

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,328208,00.html


This is HD DUD fan boys talking point thrown out the window.

While low prices have enabled us to fill our homes with more stuff, we pay in the loss of things like customer service, reliability, durability and flexibility. The cheap electronics that we buy on impulse break constantly, forcing us to buy more cheap electronics.

In the long term, we'll probably have spent just as much as if we'd bought high-quality stuff in the first place, except we'll have paid "later," not "now."

And the relentless cost-cutting brought on by a culture where low prices are the ultimate goal has led to the complete demise of tech support, the most labor-intensive part of the tech process and one that's invisible in advertisements and on shelves.