When you buy something new, you are generally not thinking "Hey - I better stock up on spare parts in case this company goes out of business."
Apparently, one would be remiss, as I have discovered. New, high-tech energy savings furnace from a well-known company - I should be OK, right? Not if they discontinue that model, apparently. Broken mounting clips on one of those fancy (read - expensive) "window treatment" shades I bought some years ago? Apparently I should have thought 15 years ahead for spare parts in case the shade maker went out of business.
What really got my ire (and honestly, you don't want to do that), my sainted wife bought me the fancy Mr. Clean auto washing system a few short years ago and the rats discontinued it already! Now I'm an unwilling victim of eBay spares scalpers, who apparently KNEW the rats were discontinuing the product.
When it comes to sustaining products, we should take a cue from Cuban auto maintenance.
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