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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by judge2020 on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:16AM (#30661945)
This is generally because USPS effectively subsidizes international shipment. The same $2 LED shipment might be $10 DHL (and free shipping isn’t free, the seller is making their margins with shipping costs included).
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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by adhesive_wombat on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:28AM (#30662055)
So you allow the manufacturer to charge for delivery (based, on, say, some average delivery cost for the weight, rather then allowing inflated S&H costs to be a new profit centre rewarding unreliable items).

Or, if you really want to stamp down about it, you do not allow them to recoup delivery costs and that's their punishment for making an unreliable machine in the first place.

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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by rootsudo on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:59AM (#30662440)
Yes, and in your perfect world - manufacturers know full in advance about part life? There are hundreds of parts that make up the build of material of an appliance.

This means simply that parts won't ship and service is only done at approved manufacturer facilities. OH wait...

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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by rootsudo on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:58AM (#30662427)
Not anymore, Trump modified the EMS packet from china to USA thing to remove subsidies. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/trump...

This was 2018.

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