2nd hand electronics sales to be regulated by Japan
Excerpt:
The Japanese Government will put in action in April 2006 a law, which forbid the sales of all electronics goods (TV, PC, Video Games...) manufactured before 2001. The Japanese Official Document is not really clear but it may also affect all electronics good older than 5 years.
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Mutant Frog has a more complete take on this alarmist introduction here.
My take is this: I think this is more of an attempt to establish a firm means of extracting every last penny from what is really Japan's only major source of revenue-electronics-, as opposed to 'screwing the consumer.'
Japan has created this culture for themselves where if it's old, dump it, and has pushed itself, and those countries it exports to, as far as it can into buying NEW products (electronics, cars, etc). That's the only way it can retain any kind of economic dominance-mass consumption of its only 'natural' resource.
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*Update: link of specific electronics here
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The Japanese Government will put in action in April 2006 a law, which forbid the sales of all electronics goods (TV, PC, Video Games...) manufactured before 2001. The Japanese Official Document is not really clear but it may also affect all electronics good older than 5 years.
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Mutant Frog has a more complete take on this alarmist introduction here.
My take is this: I think this is more of an attempt to establish a firm means of extracting every last penny from what is really Japan's only major source of revenue-electronics-, as opposed to 'screwing the consumer.'
Japan has created this culture for themselves where if it's old, dump it, and has pushed itself, and those countries it exports to, as far as it can into buying NEW products (electronics, cars, etc). That's the only way it can retain any kind of economic dominance-mass consumption of its only 'natural' resource.
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*Update: link of specific electronics here
read more | digg story
posted by Shaun at 8:09 PM
2 Comments:
I clicked on 'read more' and was led to a blank page so must not be too much more to the story huh? So how does this affect the consumer as a whole? I don't particularly go to the local electronics store and look for products dated less than the year we are living in, so are you saying that the 'guts' of most of your electronics are full of 2001 or previous?
Sorry about the link-it must have been on their end because it works now. You would have to read both links to get an idea of what the flurry was about. The 'read more' leads to an alarmist view that the 2nd link contradicts in many ways. Another link, which I'll add, lists the specific electronics affected.
Since Japan exports a lot of 2nd hand electronics to surrounding, poorer countries, like the Phillipines, and this law lists electronics such as appliances, fuses, cables, transformers, it seems this move aims at centralizing these goods for more efficient export with bulk purchases in mind, as opposed to individual consumation.
It was also said that this is being done in part to reap extra, 2nd time-around-profit for the original manufacturers, who lose out in those instances of unregulated shops selling well-kept 2nd hand items. So the individual may only be affected insofar as where he purchases 2nd hand stuff, since the law requires merchants to either get their items inspected for resale, or apply for the proper certification to do so, which the small business might not be able to afford in time/money, and thus are prevented from dealing.
Maybe.
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