Invisible wrote:
>>> I'm just wondering whether they actually did anything different at 
>>> all for the extra money, that's all.
>>
>> Yeah, they guaranteed that it won't fail within certain tolerances. 
>> Those tolerances are *much* stricter than for the cheap version.
> 
> Well, certainly for resistors, they have a machine that just churns out 
> resistors. They vary all over the place. The ones that are more than 10% 
> wrong get thrown away [or perhaps recycled, IDK]. The ones that are 
> within 10% of the correct value get sold cheap. And the ones that are 
> within 5% of the correct value get sold expensive. But it all comes out 
> of the same machine, and costs the same to produce. [Although I guess 
> the 5% ones are rarer, assuming a normal distribution...]

Of course they're rarer.  If they weren't, some other company would 
charge a lower price for them.

>> When you pay extra for shipping, you're paying for a guarantee that it 
>> will arrive within a certain timeframe.  If you're ordering a gift for 
>> someone's birthday, for instance, and their birthday is 3 days from 
>> now, do you want to gamble that the gift won't arrive on time?  Or do 
>> you want to know *for a fact* that it will arrive within 3 days?
> 
> If only it was a *fact*. It's not like you can demand your money back 
> when the item still turns up 3 weeks late...

Actually, you can.  At least for the shipping.

...Chambers

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