[TechAssist] Re: Hitachi LCD50V500 light engine
- From: "Leonard Caillouet" <lcaillo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 07:59:36 -0400
No markup is simply not going to happen in my shop unless there is a special
reason to accommodate a client or it is a warranty repair. We price them at
a 30% margin, special order, paid in advance, no warranty if we don't do the
work. If people don't want to pay the price we refer them to the
manufacturer and they can replace it themselves. There will be enough
people bringing them to us with bad ballasts for real repairs after they
blow a couple of lamps or it won't start with the new one. I am not
concerned with losing sales on the lamps themselves to the manufacturers nor
minor labor charges to replace lamps. Eventually there will be more vendors
making the lamps and the prices will come down. All of the manufacturers
will eventually go to user replacement on the lamps anyway.
There is a good database on the web with lots of cross-references on the
lamps for many projectors at Don's Bulbs. A bit difficult to navigate, but
a great deal of good info.
cost=list is a fool's errand IMO, and we will not participate in this kind
of nonsense. Manufacturers have been showing list prices with little or no
margin on parts for years, yet we still set our own margins where they need
to be to stay in business. If the clients can change the part themselves
and choose to take the risk of doing so, then so be it, they don't need us.
Leonard Caillouet
Electronics World
----- Original Message -----
From: "Intrepid Video Support" <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 10:51 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Hitachi LCD50V500 light engine
> Depends on the manufacturer.
> Mitsubishi (I believe), will stock the lamps themselves, not at
distributors. They do not want these lamps
> sitting on distributors shelves. There are only two manufacturers making
lamps for DLP sets.
> Finally, there is going to be no mark-up...cost is list for these puppies.
> Jeff
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul" <dntwntv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 6:32 PM
> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Hitachi LCD50V500 light engine
>
>
> Your right Jim about user replacements. However I just did a Samsung DLP
over the weekend. Had to drive
> 120 mi. round trip. Customer (woman) didn't want to put it in so Smsung
paid me to do it. Another question
> where is the customer going to get those lamps. I'm sure they can, but not
like going to the local Hdwe.
> They will have to come from the Mfr I suppose and that isn't terribly
convenient. I just called to see
> what that samsung lamp cost. It is $210.?? our cost. Didn't ask what
retail was but say it is around
> $300.00. That is still rather costly and have to put it in themselves.
> Paul
> Jim Myers <jr.myers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We haven't sold any lamps either, all that we have replaced have been
> under warranty. They are all user replaceable as far as I know so there
> probably won't be any "lamp+service call+labor=big bucks situations
> unless you have a user who doesn't want to replace it and is willing to
> pay to have it done. As a matter of fact one manufacturer says it is
> user replaceable even when under warranty and won't pay a servicer to
> replace it, probably all will be that way soon. Free Samsung and Zenith
> parts? Not in this part of the world but we do get full credit when the
> dud is returned for a warranty repair.
>
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> Jim Myers
> Telrad Electronics
> Fort Wayne, Indiana
>
> Paul wrote:
> > Hi Jim,
> > I have replaced Samsung DLP parts and Zenith Plasma parts and they send
the parts out, no charge. I
> wouldn't return a $1.00 dud either. Walter Wood thought it must have been
a printing error but this came
> verbally from the parts supplier, Andrews Electronics. BTW you mentioned a
lamp retail price being that
> much, ($700.00) I thought they were closer to $ 300-$ 400. I haven't
replace any that were not under
> warranty yet, so haven't checked. But if you have replace any that were
not under warranty and charged
> that much, how did the customer react ? Can't imagine paying that kind a
repair bill along with service
> call and labor and being happy about it. Especially on set that is less
than two or three years old. At
> the rate that they are needing to be replaced already, this could, I
think, end up in a class action suit.
> Unless the mfrs change their policy on lamps.
> > Paul
> >
> > Jim Myers wrote:
> > Not Hitachi but we have replaced light engines in Sony, Samsung and RCA
> > and they cost a lot more than that! I wonder if the Hitachi light engine
> > would fit the RCA? That sounds more like the retail price of the lamp.
> > Sony charges 1.00 dud on their lamp but I don't return them when it
> > would cost 5 or 6 $'s to get 1 $ back.
> >
>
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> > Since 1972
> > Jim Myers
> > Telrad Electronics
> > Fort Wayne, Indiana
> >
> >
> > Paul wrote:
> >
> >>Have any Hitachi ASC's replaced the light engine in any of these LCD
sets? If so did you order the
> engine from a distributor and have it charged to your account? Amazingly
enough this cost $697.94 and the
> dud charge is $1.00. Figure that? There must be something that is reusable
in that assy. worth more than
> $1.00. Maybe the labor is a big factor? I am hoping to get Hitachi to send
me one, but they want me to buy
> it and reimburse me. Thought I would see what others are doing for this.
> >>Paul
> >>
> >>Paul ,B
> >>Central TV&Video
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