Originally Posted by np3
Candace, let me see if this helps you. She paid $1200 for the machine. Ignoring the parts, the maintenance was almost 17% of the cost of the machine. At that rate, every 6 years she would have paid for her machine again.
I paid $42,000 for my SUV. Using that same percentage, the maintenance annually on my car would be $7,000. I actually pay an average of $250 for maintenance, sometimes higher sometimes lower depending on the actual work. It has lots of computer things that can go wrong too. So this makes the maintenance cost seem very high to me. I have some very pricey machines and I would not be happy to pay $200 annually for repairs per machine.
My message was not to you and I don't need "clarification" thanks LOL.. and I posted before that this is about what I'd pay here.
By the same rationale I would never pay $2,000 to have a $100,000 house painted every 10 years. Or pay $250 a year for a service agreement on a heating/cooling system that costs $2,000. The cost of the item really has no basis for the maintenance labor and price. Yes, you can consider it in your purchase but time and skill is $.