EU countries must implement right to repair laws within two years
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EU countries must implement right to repair laws within two years
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Re: EU countries must implement right to repair laws within two years
#2Awesome news, another in the line of big recent EU regulations trying to improve consumer rights and acces to fair goods and services.
Re: EU countries must implement right to repair laws within two years
#3Does this bill includes an obligation for manufacturers to sell spare parts at a reasonable price ? Or has clauses against malicious compliance like apple did with the infamous military crates ?
Re: EU countries must implement right to repair laws within two years
#4Why is there gatekeeping of "professional" repairers and "repair services"? Why can't I as a consumer view a service manual and buy a part? If a washing machine costs £220, and a professional repair man costs £70 per hour, nobody will repair out of warranty.
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#5Holy shit anyone else notice the "accept cookies" options on this page, where "Accept" is a tiny checkmark and "Reject" is a large text button?
Re: EU countries must implement right to repair laws within two years
#6Why is there gatekeeping of "professional" repairers and "repair services"? Why can't I as a consumer view a service manual and buy a part? If a washing machine costs £220, and a professional repair man costs £70 per hour, nobody will repair out of warranty.
Because it is these professional repairers lobbying for the laws.
This sort of thing always aims to get the law to identify some kind of professional certification needed to qualify, and then that certification gets more expensive and limited (eg. by saying studying a specific course is needed, but only X thousand places are offered per year).
Eventually, people who have done that course and qualification get so expensive that that becomes their only job, and you won't find a handyman-type person qualified to do those tasks.
Re: EU countries must implement right to repair laws within two years
#7Does this bill includes an obligation for manufacturers to sell spare parts at a reasonable price ? Or has clauses against malicious compliance like apple did with the infamous military crates ?
Even if not, it's still possible to break up other devices to scavenge parts to resell, as long as the manufacturer doesn't software lock the parts together.
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#8Holy shit anyone else notice the "accept cookies" options on this page, where "Accept" is a tiny checkmark and "Reject" is a large text button?
No, thanks to ublock-origin
Re: EU countries must implement right to repair laws within two years
#9Holy shit anyone else notice the "accept cookies" options on this page, where "Accept" is a tiny checkmark and "Reject" is a large text button?
Does anyone else notice that this comment is offtopic and beside the point?
Re: EU countries must implement right to repair laws within two years
#10Why is there gatekeeping of "professional" repairers and "repair services"? Why can't I as a consumer view a service manual and buy a part? If a washing machine costs £220, and a professional repair man costs £70 per hour, nobody will repair out of warranty.
Because it is these professional repairers lobbying for the laws. This sort of thing always aims to get the law to identify some kind of professional certification needed to qualify, and then that certification gets more expensive and limited (eg. by saying studying a specific course is needed, but only X thousand places are offered per year). Eventually, people who have done that course and qualification get so expe…
Professional repairs are the ones lobbying for right to repair laws? Do you have proof for this outlandish claim?