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2016-07-29 , 15:04
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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
In other words, the problem is not that the charger was included with every device you boy.
The problem is that
a) you buy devices too frequently;
b) when you get a new one, you get rid of the old one in such a way that you keep the charger.
I didn't say I buy a new device every two years, did I? I implied people do on average (I don't know the exact figure, admittedly).

I have chargers from a variety of sources, including ones I've inherited from various friends / associates. People throw them away without thinking about them, because they come with practically every phone (or other USB charged device) under the sun...

Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Mosen is right, people's habits need to change.

If you have too many, why don't you donate the surplus to a charity, for example? Not all charities accept electrical goods because then need to be safety tested which costs them money but some do. I purchased the extra chargers I mentioned above from one such charity shop.
I generally use my devices to destruction, and if I have a surplus of phones / chargers / headphones I'll give them away. Charity shops normally won't take them any more, but it's normally not too hard to find someone who wants one of them - homeless charities, for example.

Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Correct in theory. In practice, as we saw with the Jolla tablet, the price is set and excluding components is a cost saving exercise.
Out of curiosity, how do you know this if the device was never sold with a charger included?

Shouldn't your complaint then be that companies should price correctly? If people's expectation was that phones didn't come with loads of rubbish they'll probably throw away (and make no mistake about it, many of them do), in the end the prices would be forced to adjust.

If you had an option of getting a decent charger for £5 or so at the same time as buying the phone, what exactly would the problem be? Less waste, and less cost for people with the sense not to destroy / lose their chargers...

-edit:

Here is an estimate that there are 100 million unused chargers floating around in the UK: http://www.o2.co.uk/thinkbig/planet/...out-of-the-box

Here an estimate that 70% of those buying a phone already have a compatible charger: http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethic...vironment.aspx
Last edited by MikeHG; 2016-07-29 at 16:24.
 

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