Comment on Can't throw me off the scent
Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 weeks agoLike that would happen when they can sell £4 cables for £300.
Comment on Can't throw me off the scent
Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 weeks agoLike that would happen when they can sell £4 cables for £300.
Shard@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s not that £4 cable costs £300. £4 is the scrap value of the copper once the insulation has been peeled off. Freshly made cable costs a bit more than that.
It costs £300 to fix because of the cost of the cable, labour and the workmanship.
Comment105@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Well, the ones making the cable still probably only make a small fraction of the value in labor. The majority of the inflated price goes to C suite paychecks.
I remember when I made 10s of thousands worth of cable every day from cheap materials and walked away with a couple thousand a month. I ended up quitting that job, but the slightly mentally challenged woman there who was the most efficient and accurate to spec probably still sits there making cables every day.
beaiouns@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Why scrap it when you can turn around and sell it right back to them?
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If I break into your house and steal your TV then knock on your door the next day to offer to sell it back to you, would you buy it?
beaiouns@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Depends on how much copper is in it, I guess