[Arny Krueger]

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I said that for $500 a mixer would be usable but not
serviceable -- which is true of all the cheap mixers;
the labor costs for disassembly alone end up being more
than the mixer is worth.

I did a little checking around and failed to find even
one pro audio shop that wanted $500 to do an inspection
of a $500 mixer.

You also failed to realize that by the time a $500 mixer
gets to a repair shop its actual value has dropped
significantly, which makes Paul's observation valid.

You seem to be making unfounded assumptions. I found that most pro audio
shops would charge $75-150 for an estimate. The cost of the actual repair
could be just about anything because we can't predict what's wrong.

I just paid $2,500 to repair a video projector that still had a replacement
value of over $5,000. Obtaining a professionally-refurbished large venue
video projector that is a few years old with 2 new bulbs for $2,500 is not a
bad deal. Similar costs and benefits on a percentage basis might apply to
consoles.

I've taken a few of them apart myself, and it isn't
rocket science. I could see where someone who didn't
want to deal with that class of customer or product
might intentionally price themselves out of the
particular marketplace, but that's an administrative
choice, not a technical necessity.

Or maybe they have done enough of it to properly assess
the costs and risks involved.

That's essentially what I said. For example, it is pretty obvious that many
professional audio repair shops go out of their way to *not* deal with DJ's,
for example.