Once upon a time…
There was a girl who very kindly (or very smartly) gave her brother a broken Plasma TV. The brother worked with computers and thought he could fix it. He tried everything he could (including turning it off and then on again) but to no avail! So he called upon a man known to be a Wizard with Panasonic Viera TVs who travelled the land to mend the poor broken screen.
After several minutes and a confused look, the Wizard said he’d work out a cost for the parts that would need to be conjured to get the broken screen mended. “It is five years old,” he said, “so it shouldn’t be much”.
The brother was in for a shock…
Whenth the Wizard returneth the call the brother discovered that the charge would be Five Hundred English Poundoolies!! Plus labour. The brother was taken aback! He had seen a 32” HD Plasma TV on the magical interweb the day before (brand new!) for only Four Hundred and Forty-nine English Poundoolies (delivery included). He could even get it on credit. The 5 year old Plasma was sent away the very next day to the far away land of ebay (for cheap parts).
The moral of this story? Chuck everything you own away when it breaks! It’s not worth fixing!
Brother Al