[Jiggly]

The European Commission are looking to implement a new set of regulations which ensure products such as electronics, mobile phones, batteries, fabrics and more, last longer and are able to be repaired.

It is part of the Right to Repair movement, which is usually fueled by ecologically conscious people looking to combat climate change. However, the other impacts could include a reduction in premature obsolescence of products. While this may not impact all countries, it is likely to include even the UK, post-brexit. This is because it may not be worthwhile for manufacturers to separately produce lower grade models for the sake of select countries. This could lead to new business models emerging.

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What are your thoughts? Is this a good idea, or a bad one? Would you think differently if you were a manufacturer affected by these regulations?

[mothered]

In my view, I believe this will benefit the consumer- It's a lot cheaper to repair a given Item than to purchase brand new.

From a business standpoint, well, It pretty much speaks for Itself. They'll lose sales (new Items not purchased) and money In loss of manpower (dedicated employees who're paid by the hour) during the repairs process.

[Jiggly]

In my view, I believe this will benefit the consumer- It's a lot cheaper to repair a given Item than to purchase brand new.

From a business standpoint, well, It pretty much speaks for Itself. They'll lose sales (new Items not purchased) and money In loss of manpower (dedicated employees who're paid by the hour) during the repairs process.

Would they not need more man-power to do those repairs and the admin staff needed for tracking and booking repairs?

I wonder if companies can monetise via repair schemes? It certainly seems a challenge for organisations.

[mothered]

Would they not need more man-power to do those repairs and the admin staff needed for tracking and booking repairs?

Absolutely.

They'll lose on a financial level, and via physical commitments.

I wonder if companies can monetise via repair schemes? It certainly seems a challenge for organisations.

It's difficult to generalize.

I'd say It depends on the scale of the company, how well they're organized and whether their finances are In surplus after all costs have been met.

[Jiggly]

Would they not need more man-power to do those repairs and the admin staff needed for tracking and booking repairs?

Absolutely.

They'll lose on a financial level, and via physical commitments.

I wonder if companies can monetise via repair schemes? It certainly seems a challenge for organisations.

It's difficult to generalize.

I'd say It depends on the scale of the company, how well they're organized and whether their finances are In surplus after all costs have been met.

This is very true. Also, in places like Europe, the repairs center for a company may be in once particular country, rather than all the countries they distribute to. So, customers have to ship their items to said country for repairs. I have actually had that happen. Lenovo (I think it was), has a center in Germany. Not all customers will be willing to shop their expensive, personal items to repair locations abroad. I certainly didn't. The logistics could prove to be very complicated and expensive.

[mothered]

Would they not need more man-power to do those repairs and the admin staff needed for tracking and booking repairs?

Absolutely.

They'll lose on a financial level, and via physical commitments.

I wonder if companies can monetise via repair schemes? It certainly seems a challenge for organisations.

It's difficult to generalize.

I'd say It depends on the scale of the company, how well they're organized and whether their finances are In surplus after all costs have been met.

This is very true. Also, in places like Europe, the repairs center for a company may be in once particular country, rather than all the countries they distribute to. So, customers have to ship their items to said country for repairs. I have actually had that happen. Lenovo (I think it was), has a center in Germany. Not all customers will be willing to shop their expensive, personal items to repair locations abroad. I certainly didn't. The logistics could prove to be very complicated and expensive.

There's definitely a few variables, that could make or break the repair process.

You have a very valid point here.

Not all customers will be willing to shop their expensive, personal items to repair locations abroad.

I'm certainly part of that equation.

[miso]

The European Commission are looking to implement a new set of regulations which ensure products such as electronics, mobile phones, batteries, fabrics and more, last longer and are able to be repaired.

It is part of the Right to Repair movement, which is usually fueled by ecologically conscious people looking to combat climate change. However, the other impacts could include a reduction in premature obsolescence of products. While this may not impact all countries, it is likely to include even the UK, post-brexit. This is because it may not be worthwhile for manufacturers to separately produce lower grade models for the sake of select countries. This could lead to new business models emerging.

Read more here

What are your thoughts? Is this a good idea, or a bad one? Would you think differently if you were a manufacturer affected by these regulations?

i think that that is a good thing that the EU had a good idea to set a regulation like that, businesses will also be able to re-use broken products to fix or even be used to make newer products.

This regulation will reduce the amount of products wasted and thrown in the environment, businesses can have a better reputation and prices to repair products might also reduce because of the businesses going to be asked to re-use their products because they're gonna want to empty their stocks of broken products, so customers/consumers will be happy to see that the price of repairing a product decreased, and business might make a bigger profit from fixing devices.

[mothered]

and business might make a bigger profit from fixing devices.

Possibly, however they'd need to cover the cost of the extra staff they'd employ to specifically handle repair claims.

[miso]

and business might make a bigger profit from fixing devices.

Possibly, however they'd need to cover the cost of the extra staff they'd employ to specifically handle repair claims.

true

[Miamoo]

This is a good move by the European Commission. In many countries, especially developed countries this is the norm. Repairing your electronic equipments will work out cheaper than buying a new one. If this regulation comes into force, I hope the quality of products be maintained to international standards. I say this because we have seen products breaking down as soon as their warranty expires now a days.